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Low Battery

March 30, 2022 by Jon Douglas

Imagine if you could measure where our attention is going in a given day. Wouldn’t that be helpful to better understand our stress, boredom, and anxiety? Would that help us cope with these realities of modern life? Let’s say for the sake of this, we imagine a day in our life as a phone battery …

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Be Yourself To Sell Yourself

February 28, 2022 by Jon Douglas

When was the last time you really resonated with somebody? Can you recall what were some of the reasons why? The people you follow on social media, the colleagues at work that you look up to, and the friends you have who seemingly have life put together from your eyes. People value authenticity. They don’t …

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Distracted from Distraction By Distraction

February 25, 2022 by Jon Douglas

I recently came across this line by T.S. Elliot that says “Distracted from Distraction by Distraction”. Of course this is apart of a larger work called “Burnt Norton”. Here’s a small snippet for context: Over the strained time-ridden faces Distracted from distraction by distraction Filled with fancies and empty of meaning Tumid apathy with no …

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Act Immediately On Impulses

February 17, 2022 by Jon Douglas

The other day I had this impulse to send a message to an old friend. I hadn’t been in contact with that old friend for a couple of years, but the thought was in my head constantly throughout the day. How are they? Are they doing okay? It’s been awhile. So I sent a quick …

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Name It To Tame It

February 10, 2022 by Jon Douglas

Everybody has strong emotions from time to time. Some may show these emotions and others may bottle them up. Over the last few months, I’ve been experiencing intense amounts of stress, anxiety, and sadness. These emotions manifested in my body as feeling sick, lethargic, and unmotivated. What I didn’t realize is that in the past, …

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Fresh Perspectives with Inexperienced Experience

February 8, 2022 by Jon Douglas

Imagine this. You have a few years of professional experience in something. You’ve proven yourself to work as a corporate cog in an even bigger machine. You know how to learn quickly & be efficient in the scope of your work today. But suddenly, you are re-assigned to a completely different effort. You’re anxious, unsure …

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Being Value-Driven

February 3, 2022 by Jon Douglas

If people could see what you see. Know what you know. Feel the passion you feel. Believe what you believe. Would it be easier to do business with them? This exchange is known as value. Value has many different characteristics and types like: Functional – This type of value is what an offer does, it’s …

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Stoicism To Beat The Odds

January 31, 2022 by Jon Douglas

Life has many hills and valleys. One day you can be celebrating the addition of a new family member and another day you may be sicker than a dog. Each event in our lives gives us an opportunity to decide on how we feel about it. When you’re celebrating, you typically bring along some type …

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There Is No Shame

January 27, 2022 by Jon Douglas

I used to feel so much shame in not being on the latest social platform or app, so I’d join out of peer pressure. There were feelings of missing out. There were feelings of guilt. There were feelings of this new thing solving the very human problems of loneliness & depression. None of these new …

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Creativity Means Being Unoriginal

January 24, 2022 by Jon Douglas

Creativity can be seen in every area of our lives – in work, or in play, or in the mundane. Wherever you can find a way of doing things a bit better than what has been done before, you are being creative. Perhaps one of the biggest interruptions to your creativity is worrying about being …

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