Mike "Bagel"
@bagelpuc
Small Business Counselor, Podcaster, Writer, Connector
Mike "Bagel"
liveyourvalues.co
Wild-caught shrimp also come with an enormous ecological price: bycatch. Because shrimp are so small, the nets used to catch them tend to catch everything else in their path. In some countries, as much as 90 percent of what comes up in a shrimp net isn’t shrimp. Those sharks, turtles, baby snappers and hundreds of other species tend to die in the
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We are told a story from a young age. We are taught to conform, to behave, to achieve, to become something. And in the end, we believe the greatest lie of all — that we are somehow not enough, that we must become rather than simply be ourselves.
But tell me — have you ever seen a green tree struggle to grow, or a beautiful flower struggle to bloom?
... See moreSo much of self-regulation comes down to 2 interrelated powers: 1) keeping yourself inspired, and 2) keeping yourself accountable.
Recognizing in a felt way that “this is worth doing”, and that “I’m responsible for doing it.”
Dr. Gena Gorlinsubstack.comIn summary, the Focusing Effect can significantly impact your decision-making and can lead to suboptimal outcomes and an overly narrow perspective. It pays to take a systematic and comprehensive approach to decision-making. That means gathering and evaluating multiple pieces of information, considering different perspectives, and weighing the
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What has been helping:
- Regular sessions with my wife and a therapist who is a trained zen guy - for giving a bit of guidance to both of us, because she can understand what my experience up to a certain degree.
- Books and online resources on „Spiritual Crisis“ that focus on easing into the process and giving a positive outlook (please no doom
Waking Up with Sam Harris - A New Operating System for Your Mind
non-dual awareness
When fed a chunk of information, a computer processes it in the same way on each occasion, whether it’s been at work for five minutes or five hours, whether it is located in a fluorescent lit office or positioned next to a sunny window, whether it’s near other computers or is the only computer in the room. This is how computers operate.
But the same
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Yet the fundamental loss remains—it doesn’t just dissipate—and, in a strange way, I think it can become a magnet for other losses. We come to see we are all simply creatures carrying around our ever-deepening loss. Small griefs seem to collect around the bigger primary grief. I think this realization allows us to become a true human being.
Amanda Petrusich • Nick Cave on the Fragility of Life
Every sports story is a labor story, and this one dates back to 1965 when the fledgling Major League Baseball Players Association began to strengthen in response to the owners’ threat that they would cancel the players’ pension plan. Since then the sport has seen nine work stoppages, some $270 million in owner fines after the players proved the... See more