Today’s podcast brings me back to my old roots in the science of motivation. I’ve been privileged to work with many great thinkers, practitioners, and researchers in this space. I try to distill the learnings from one key organizing framework of motivation in this episode for you to better understand how you can think about motivation practically. I hope you find it to be of great utility. Thank you for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast stems from a conversation I had last night with some friends about examining our lives. It’s so easy to get caught up in life and not step back to examine what is really going on and what can change to make things better. I share this podcast as a tool for you to do this reflect exercise (or for you to share with someone else who may need it). I hope you find this to be valuable! Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Small wins that compound over time through consistent improvement are an incredibly powerful tool. They’ve changed the game for me in my approach to various things in my life, including my fitness journey in weightlifting. I talk through this example in the episode, along with stepping back to think through how you can apply the model to the thing you currently care about improving. I hope you find it to be a valuable message and that you can perceive the enthusiasm this has brought me. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

This podcast may be a bit destabilizing. I share a deeper dive into my views of consciousness and how I’ve come to make sense of it through meditation and my personal learnings and experiences. It’s something I’m really happy to finally share here, so I hope it’s one you find to be valuable to hear and consider. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast starts being about the compensatory control model, then meanders to the value of identifying behaviors and thoughts with specific terms. The model is a really interesting one to have in mind as we look at ourselves and the world, which is why I wanted to share it with you all here. Second, the bigger point of what the model can do is help us to classify things to provide the opportunity for greater sense making and positive change. I hope you find the contents of this episode to be valuable. I’m excited for what is to come in 2023! Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Transition. That’s what the new year brings. It’s arbitrary, yet it’s an opportunity. Let’s try to make the most of it. Here are some parting words as we start the year. Take them as you wish. Thank you, as always, for listening. Much Love ❤️ and please take care. Cheers to 2023.

We so frequently hear about and are exposed to the big, wholesale personal change that people take on, especially around the turn of the new year. While it’s an enticing idea, these efforts are frequently not sustainable. In response to this, I discuss some ideas about what are sustainable changes in this episode, which I hope you find to be useful. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is about how our expectations and past experiences can severely cloud our ability to taste life and to be curious if we do not become aware of it. It’s a concept that really has shaken me to the core, which I hope you can feel and hear in this episode. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

This weekend, I had a lot of good conversations. One of them involved sensitivity and how it can lead to hesitation in authentically sharing what we think and perceive with others. It brought some really insightful points up, so I wanted to take some time to talk through it here. I hope you find it to be insightful as well. It’s a refreshing view that gives me hope. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Religion is something I don’t touch on all too much here in my monologues and conversations. I do spend quality time thinking and talking about it, though. One perspective on it that I really appreciate is Anthony De Mello’s in his book Awareness. I speak about one specific point he makes here in this episode and why it resonates with me. I hope you resonate and find some value in it, too. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.