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Thoughts aren't enough. They're a good start, but without something else to drive us to change, its just a cool thing we think about.

Combining Cognition and Craving Creates Change Good morning fine peoples. Greg… So, after a few (give or take a month. But who’s counting?) weeks off, I thought I’d write something. And here it is. What leads us to get s**t done? As in, how is that process started, in ourselves? And how does it actually turn in to action? Nope, I’m not t...

Seeking validation can lead to all sorts of places we may or may not want to go. Until we ask honestly why we want and need that validation, we never really acknowledge how little of our own self advocacy those seeking behaviours have in them.

Viable-less Validation Vexes Vehement Versions Good afternoon all and sundry. I’m feeling mean today. Not necessarily towards you specifically. Maybe more aimed towards behaviours that end up proving that we are dumber than we thought. But I can explain that better. As I do. The short version: Stop doing dumb validation s**t! If you want, and ...

Stepping back to give ourselves space for perspective and insight matters. But without using that clarity to engage with the world in a different and better way, we still stay stuck.

When Why Whisks us Wildly Wayward Morning peeps. Sup, Nath. Sweet beard, Jules, the Geraldton wax you’ve decorated it with is a nice touch. Right, everyone (including me…) satisfied with their ego strokes? Good, good. So, hands up who’s considered themselves a people pleaser at some stage in their lives? Nearly everyone. Cool,...

We all have concerns about how legitimate our place in society is, how we are seen compared to who we really are. If we let it go too far, those doubts discredit us at every turn with anxiety spikes that can create deeper and deeper disconnection with who we really are.

Imposters Implicate Impossible Impetus How are we all doing today guys? Enjoying being a self-made lord or lady of leisure? Good, good. So, if I asked questions about how legitimate that feeling of euphoric epicness is, what would be your answer? Would you be honest and answer in a grounded perspective based on genuinely authentic feelin...

If nothing can be defined as not doing anything, then sometimes we need to be doing nothing so we have the space and time to spend being.

Nothing Necessitates New Notions Morning guys. Or whatever it is for you. Today, we are talking about the value of nothing. Well, doing nothing, anyway. Sometimes we need to time to process. To assimilate. To absorb. To make sense of things. To sit with what we need to sit with. Sometimes nothing is something. Something important.....

Part of being human is relating to others with a similar experience. With it, life is richer and we spend more time being ourselves. Without it, we tend to be much less than who we are.

Connection Connotates Collaborative Collusion Afternoon guys. This one time, I opened a blog and it wasn’t awkward… I can’t remember which one. But I’m sure it’s happened at least once, right? Anyway. That’s apparently how we are opening today… Ugh… Connection. What exactly is it? When it comes to people and our relationships an...

Recognising the argument within our own heads can make a huge impact on how much it impacts how we feel about ourselves and the world around us.

Waste of Love Sometimes I feel like I'm a waste of life A waste of time A waste of love I'm caught up in a Predetermined role It's a waste of heart It's a waste of soul You've gotta move on You've gotta keep on ridin' You've gotta shoot low You've gotta keep abiding Sometimes I feel like I'm a cursed man A living...

They aren't the same thing. The same way that validation and understanding aren't the same thing. Or how placation and connection aren't the same thing. Suffering is a part of life, how we ask others to help deal with it matters in the short and long term path of life.

Sympathy Synchronises Sycophantic Symbiotes Afternoon. I am about to be mean, so appreciate that this short brisk intro today is prepping everyone for the meaness… With that said, how IS everyone’s afternoon treating them? Like a champ? Or a little bit less than that? Well, it’s those little-bit-less-than-that people I’m going to be t...

Living without intention means we are going to repeat the past into the future. Which may serve us, but often doesn't. If you want things to be different, then you need to be different and aim that new you at something different.

Future Functions Fully from Feelings Fresh and Fought For Morning guys. I often wonder what people make of the kind of ridiculous titles I give these things, and if they make sense to literally anyone BUT me. Perfect sense to me, but not everyone is me. I’M barely me… But that’s already enough existentialist speculation on the idea of Self™ and sel...

Behaviours, and the interpretations of them, aren't necessarily as black and white from person to person as we might wish. What is toxic here maybe be fine there. Positive there may be indifferent there. Intent, objective result and subjective perspective matter.

Traits Tend to Traverse Twixt Toxic and Tasteful Hi Everybody! (If you don’t respond with “Hi Doctor Nic!” I think we may be on VERY different pages with our cultural references. Just saying…) How’s your weekend treating/ed you? Like a champ? Great answer Tia, I’m enjoying your newfound streak of positivity. Well, I’m sorry to say, I...

Without considering why a goal is important, and how we made it important, it runs the risk of conflicting with who we think we are and the behaviours we've built around that. At which point, it becomes no goal at all, but a way to torture ourselves with what we don't have.

Goals Generate Growth or Guilt Howdo guys. Just a word of warning, there will be large sections of this that will sound suspiciously like a 4 year old child is talking to you. Sorry in advance. So, I was thinking a little bit about some questions I was asked the other day. “You and questions? How unlikely…” I hear you braze...

We all have something within us that makes us uncomfortable. Facing it, challenging it, becoming stronger from it, is how we break its power and be more of our real selves.

Until it Sleeps Where do I take this pain of mine I run but it stays right by my side So tear me open and pour me out There's things inside that scream and shout And the pain still hates me So hold me until it sleeps Just like the curse, just like the stray You feed it once and now it stays Now, it stays So tear me...