Daily Musings with Allysia

This is the longest Daily Musings episode to date as I discuss how Canadian elections work, and some details about today's campaign. If you're Canadian, go vote!

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Today's episode discusses three types of attentional focus (or lack thereof) that are worth developing and cultivating. I'm terrible at #3!

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Today's episode is about relating to yourself like you would to your own best friend. We tend to be really mean to ourselves (aren't we the meanest to those closest to us?), and this is a relationship dynamic I've been working on changing. Enjoy!

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 We think productivity is all about the left-brain stuff, but humans are primarily emotional beings, so I think some of the biggest productivity gains come from managing emotions.  Keeping balanced emotionally is the biggest area for me where I stand to gain. I've probably spent accumulated months feeling pain about something I blew out of proportion, when I could've been enjoying life. Negative experiences, pain, it's gonna happen - why prolong the pain by creating a story about how that pain defines you or the other person?

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One of my shameful habits of both the distant and recent past is ... smoking cigarettes. I picked up the habit again around Covid time after a long hiatus, and I've managed to be smoke-free for the last month. In this episode I share what that experience has been like. Enjoy!

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...That's cool, because most people do. Consider themselves above average, that is. And aye, there's the rub.  Today's exercise lets us practice some good old-fashioned honest self-assessment. Enjoy!

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I've been using the "story" frame for my life for quite some time, and though this has led to many a priceless memory, it's also led to plenty of pain and conflict. The "game" frame feels healthier and more congruent with living a happy life. Enjoy!

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Hey friends! It's nice to be back after a summer break. In this episode I share what I spent my summer doing, and I encourage you to conduct your own simple summer review - and think about the three big things you'd like to do by the end of the year.

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How do you find peace as an artist? When being an artist is your nature, and an artist's nature is akin to a storm, how does the storm find peace while still being true to its stormy nature? Or maybe, as always, the metaphors I live by are broken.

Hey friends, it's been a hot minute! Today I wanted to share something I wrote today, thoughts on how love is hard, and how the things I love doing most are hard. But love is really the only thing that's real.

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