How much would you bet on your ability to keep your own promises? I tend to struggle a lot when it comes to setting and achieving goals, especially on the timeframe of weeks or months out. I am pretty good about writing down my goals, but I tend to be over-ambitions at the start, putting…
What I’m seeking
Hey, this is going to be awkward and weird to read, but I’m trying my best to be honest about who I am and what I’m doing. So, if you’re interested in that, here ya go. I want to learn, fundamentally, how to navigate this experience of conscious existence successfully. This is what I’m aiming…
Energy Economy: A Zero Willpower Game of Getting Things Done
I’ve found a game that makes me a better version of myself. It transforms my habits without effort, gets me doing the things I know are good for me without force or negative self-talk, and quiets the nagging voice of self-doubt that tells me I’m never doing enough. At its core, this game simplifies reality…
Aims for 2024
I generated and chose these specific goals while working on my Annual reflection for 2023. This allowed me to look over my own actions and better understand what I wanted to head toward, and what was holding me back. With that in mind, here are my goals for 2024. These are ordered hierarchically within their…
Reflections and Revelations: Jan 2024
Hey there Getting back into the flow again after a long vacation in December and it feels incredibly good to be back. Big takeaways from the last month or so have been: Solo gaming just totally kills me Gaming with my friends as a way to have fun together and stay in touch makes perfect…
The Ruin of Forgotten Dreams (Part 1)
Introduction I’ve been exploring ChatGPT a bit in regards to its ability to create for me a kind of fantasy landscape for my inner world, and also to play the parts of characters inside of it which represent parts of myself. So far, this has been way more interesting and useful than I first imagined….
Simple Masteries: The Signal Token Method of Focusing
Have you ever sat down, fully intending to work for an hour or even just fifteen minutes on something you genuinely enjoy, but instead of staying focused, your mind keeps drifting this way and that? Maybe you start on it for a few minutes, you’re feeling good and going strong, then your mind begins wandering…
The Value of Journaling
I have journaled off and on for most of my life, but it wasn’t until I really started journaling consistently that I found the greater value in it. To see who you were yesterday from the viewpoint of today is no small thing. To do that day in and day out cultivates a kind of…
The Problem with Forcing Habits (and how to solve it)
We all have things we do in our life we’d like to change, but often shaking bad habits or adopting good ones is a lot harder than we’d like it to be. We go back, again and again, to the patterns we are used to. Why does this happen and how can we change in…