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No one’s been here that long
A mindfulness-for-anxiety perspective shift in modern life I’ve never done this before. Not just this writing. I mean this moment in time. And if I’ve never done this moment before, then (I imagine) neither have you. In fact, no one has. As far as I can tell. At the time of this writing, the oldest person alive was less than 117 years old. In the U.S., those over 100 account for about .03% of the population (though this number is on the rise). Globally, those over 100 account for about .01% (though this number is on the rise, also). Even with more centenarians alive today, that’s not a lot of…
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Why I replaced my morning meditation for anxiety with this one breathing technique…
The only morning meditation for anxiety you need In my mid twenties, I started meditating. I started a morning meditation for anxiety to calm down. I needed to quiet my mind, and I’d heard from several sources that meditation helps. “Sign me up!” I thought. “Where do I start?” But before I squeaked out my first om, anxiety wreaked havoc on my wellbeing. I lived with roommates, barely made enough to pay rent, and was socially isolated, bouncing from one unimpressive temp job to another. When I wasn’t working, I obsessed over unhealthy relationships and struggled to find self worth as an actor. Defining self worth through any job or…
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Dream interpretation – why I record, consider, and analyze my dreams
What I think I know about dreams (so far) For the past five years, I’ve been exploring dreams. In fact, I saw a Jungian Psychoanalyst before and after my mom’s death. Perhaps it was intuition. On some level, my body knew that a major life event was occurring. For those who don’t know, Jungian Therapy, like Freudian analysis, includes analyzing dreams. If dream interpretation sounds a little out there, that’s because it is; why we dream is ultimately unknown. Nonetheless, I remain faithful to dreams, recording them, considering them, and then, perhaps most of all, analyzing them to the best of my ability. I do this because dreams offer a window…
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The October past personas project
Awkward Sam-ily Photos: October past personas A lot has happened in 2023. My daughter was born. My mom and dog died. Outside of my personal sphere, I also witnessed many other entrances and exits with friends, family, and former college classmates. In total, a significant year of death and (re) birth. And what a time to acknowledge this: October, the month of Halloween – a time of disguises, the living dead, and changing personas. In October, we’re given license to be someone else. But if adding a dash of makeup and a dark outfit is all one needs to be someone else, it makes me wonder – how solid was…
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How to improve your content strategy
One tweak to improve your content strategy Many companies send emails as a piece of their content strategy. But many of these same companies don’t seem to consider their content strategy before marketing. Marketing, unfortunately, tends to come first – and then sales quickly thereafter. Of course, these two strategies aren’t mutually exclusive. They go hand-in-hand. But tell me, is your content strategy playing third-string to your marketing and sales efforts? I’m wiling to bet that without a clear content strategy, your engagement rate is lower than you’d like. And if your numbers are low, here’s a quick way to improve them. Take Amazon Prime Video’s content, for example… When…
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Getting Out of Debt
Debt Freedom begins with the choice In “The Most Beautiful Book in the World,” Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt tells the story of a group of women prisoners who happen upon an illegal pen and an empty notebook. With this first possibility to communicate outside of their prison and the decision to use this notebook to write to their daughters, the women pass the notebook back and forth, night after night, each risking their own life. And yet…they can’t write. They continue to fail until one woman finally sets down the only thing she can think to tell her daughter: a recipe. Amazed, the rest follow suit. What results is a cookbook. It…
