Happy New Years! In this 58th installment of the Elevated U Podcast, host Michael bids farewell to 2018 and discusses how to conceptualize responsibility in new and challenging ways in order to create a roadmap for acting responsibly throughout 2019 and beyond! Topics of intrigue include the two extremes of responsibility (absolute responsibility vs. 0 responsibility); the subjective vs. objective nature of responsibility; different approaches to responsibility in social relationships, health, finances, and existentialism; how responsibility influences actions, thoughts, and emotions; real-world examples of responsibility in action using different conceptual frameworks; potential upcoming challenges in the 21st century and why responsibility will be a key contributor to solving or creating more world problems; independence vs. dependence; personality variances; and New Years well-wishes!

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Let's face it, you're listening to this completely alone, isolated from humanity, wishing you had what it takes to be more social, to make friends more easily, find and keep a partner that loves you for you, have positive encounters with people outside the house, move closer to your goals, and feel like a part of the broader human community.

Okay, maybe that's a gross over-assumption, but it pays dividends to cultivate effective social skills for attaining greater degrees of personal wellbeing, team effectiveness, career progression, meaningful interpersonal relationships, and community connection.

In this episode of the Elevated U podcast, we discuss how to be more social, elements of human psychology and biology, finding who you are, personality development, strategies for building comfortability communicating with strangers, social queues to look out for, how to remain personally grounded yet outwardly empathetic, and more!

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Is kindness enough to restore the chaos in our inner-lives and disconnection in our communities? Can loving our deepest flaws bring out the best of our humanity? In this episode, singer-songwriter and creative designer Bianca Goyette crosses 1800 miles of virtual space to discuss empathy, vision, compassion, leadership, self-criticism, creativity, and what we can do to embrace our unique humanness and find inspiration to make the world a better place.

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Thank you for supporting Elevated U, apologies for any technical hiccups during this virtual conversation, and as always #stayelevated!

This week, we share our 13 favorite self-care tips for a happier mind and body, why each is important, and how to implement them in your life! 

1 - Stay Hydrated2 - Sleep Enough3 - Eat A Nutrient-Rich Diet 4 - Get Sunlight5 - Move Your Body (Stretch, Move, Exercise)6 - Manage Stress7 - Keep Learning8 - Make Time For Things You Enjoy9 - Be Your Own Friend10 - Do Things That Make You Feel Proud Of Yourself11 - Cultivate Positive Social Relationships & Interactions12 - Acquire & Implement Perspective13 - Be Patient, Positive, & Proactive

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Learn how to harness the power of patience in this week's episode in order to unlock success and inner peace in your life!

We discuss patience as an "active" rather than "passive" practice; how it cultivates higher-level thinking, strategic planning, and impulse control; ways to embrace and master the inevitability of change; healthy detachment; how patience enhances personal power and autonomy; process vs. outcome and the path to personal mastery; why patience isn't an excuse for inaction or delay; and incorporating patience as a life-long discipline. #stayelevated

This episode we discuss the Aristotelian Modes of Persuasion – Logos, Pathos, Ethos – how each can be used as an argumentative strategy to influence others, ways in which these persuasive techniques are used to sway your decision making, the intrinsic nature of Intellect, Passion, and Soul to human nature, methods for balancing the three to make optimal choices, and the ways each impact elements of culture, politics, personality, consumerism, and society. One more episode until the October technology blackout, but we’ll be back in full force come November! #stayelevated

I hate to break it to you, but your life is a prison. No, not like a jail cell or some nefarious living quarters guarded by a malefactor, but a philosophical conundrum, inescapable and all-encompassing. From birth, we are confined to the time period and circumstances we are born into. We possess bodies with inextricable needs, limited perceptive capacities, and a guiding human nature and temperament that set the ground rules for what potential we have available within us. Our societies and cultures govern the parameters with which we can live willfully and reality never conforms to the snap of our fingers or wishful thinking. Even our free decisions are subject to the cause-effect nature of action and sequential events.

Do not despair, however, friend. Once you know the limitations, you also learn the flexibility you have to implement autonomy and change. The human spirit is a transcendent force against limitations. This episode touches on the concept of metaphysical imprisonment, philosophy as a practical tool, and the layers of imprisonment we find ourselves subject to. Elevated U will not be publishing content in October as a means of reflection and extrapolating vision, so this may be the final episode until November, 2018. Have a lovely start to Fall! #stayelevated

Stress is like a volcano; pressure builds up under the surface over a period of time and erupts when the powers holding it in check explode from its overwhelming force. Unlike a volcano, however, we possess the ability to release some of that pressure in controlled ways to avoid catastrophic destruction. This episode focuses on strategies for stress management (which I have not always implemented as quickly or effectively as I should have), dealing with uncertainty, questions about continuing this podcast, and following your gut when it comes to life and decision making.

Who is the person you want to be? What do you need to do to become that person? Are you willing to do whatever it takes?

This episode challenges the typical static notions of what is required for personal development and success (buzzwords like hustle, motivation, empathy, etc.) and focuses on adaptive strategies for changing behavior and mindset to achieve real-world results. 

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Thank you and have an elevated week!

This episode, Michael discusses the metaphysics of maturity (an idea that maturity is not a direct consequence of age, but character and perspective ascending towards truth), morality as a mechanism to promote maturity and favorable growth, and all the growing pains associated with this transitionary process. This episode represents somewhat of a "low" point for me, but so it goes with progress. We do our best to keep it real, no matter the ebb or flow.