Today I ran into some emotional resistance working through the exercise—partly because I started late in the day when my brain was already spent, but also because the exercise focused on one of my weakest…
I’ve been thinking about my daily bookends — the first five minutes after I wake up, and the last five minutes before I fall asleep. Right now, I start and end my day with doomscrolling.…
You can probably tell that I had ChatGPT write the following post. I made a few light edits and I’m letting the post stand as is. I’m still working on training the LLM to write…
If someone were to play me on stage, I wouldn’t want to watch the play. That was the most revealing realization from today’s exercise. I wasn’t expecting fun, although I also wasn’t prepared for how…
Today, I started experimenting with a practice: pairing each worst-case scenario in my life with its corresponding best-case counterpart. I quickly realized I could anchor these scenarios to my life’s mission—and the results were surprisingly…
Today’s experiment brought me face-to-face with an old companion: fear. The instructions were simple—pick one fear and hold it up to the light. Not to banish it or reframe it, but to observe it like…
Day 13 handed me a simple question with a complicated answer: What happens if I start treating my invented self like the one who’s in charge? The task today was to look at real-world issues…
Day 12 dropped me into the mental equivalent of a home renovation show. Except instead of tile and paint swatches, I was working with values, habits, and imagined futures. What would life look like if…
Today did not feel like a revelation. It felt like reading the manual for a machine I have not finished building. The persona exercise laid everything out—who I claim I want to be, what traits…
Today I started exploring what a fast-track strategy might look like for becoming more aware of my unconscious habits. As directed by the exercise, I started to break down four specific areas: character traits, habits,…