The Mind Unset

I know... we're supposed to be in the in-between, in the season break, but I have to clear the air. I have something to share with you. 

But first, a question.

If someone said they were going to take a picture of you and a thousand years from now, the photograph will still look as it did the moment the photographer took it, would you feel any pressure? 

Would you travel 2,000 miles by car to sit for that photo? 

Just listen to the episode, I'll explain everything.  

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Until next time... Be nice. Do good stuff.

Change is in the air. 

Baja Summer is making her graceful exit. October is just around the corner. It’s happening so fast but that seems to be how it works.

Once things start to ramp up and the tectonic plates of life start to actually move; it’s only at that point, that I’m able to glance back and say, ah… that’s what that was all about.

We all know change is hard and that the transition period before the big change can be fraught with discomfort. Sometimes we cope with this discomfort by overanalyzing and speculating about all the possible outcomes, which then leads to analysis paralysis.

Or worse yet, falling back into the easy chair of one of my least favorite words in the English language, someday.

We can speculate all day long but speculation is just procrastination disguised as action. Yes, it's difficult but at the end of the day, you gotta go to know.

 

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Until next time... Be nice. Do good stuff.

I don’t know why I ended up in that little surf village. It just looked like a cool place on my paper map, stashed way out there on a desolate point of land like the last berry on a branch drooping close to the ground.

Oh, the things we discover when we load up the car and drive to a place we've never been.  

A place, that weeks before had been nearly wiped off the map by a hurricane. 

A place where, if you pause long enough,  the idea you were searching for might just drift across your vision like a small feather from a cactus wren. 

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Anthony Bourdain said food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those. It may not be the answer to world peace but it’s a start. 

But what happens when your love affair with food turns sour? When what used to excite you leaves you cold. When culinary apathy sets in and nothing tastes good anymore.  

When you realize you just might know the answer to the question; How many fish tacos are too many? This is me...right now! Maybe the Baja heat has finally gotten to me. 

Thankfully, when all else fails, we still have that one thing that set civilization on its path to stardom.  We still have the one thing that has been around since man himself. 

Let's talk about that marvelous marriage of flour, yeast, and water. In fact, let's break bread. 

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How do I even begin to describe this episode?

Well, in 1963, Paul Zahl, head guy at National Geographic coined a phrase when referencing the Coast Redwoods and Giant Sequoias in California.  He called them the Mount Everest of living things. 

Fossils and seeds from these majestic beauties have been discovered in a place that can't be explained. Some date back 45 million years. 

What started as a simple assignment from my acting coach turned into an expansive journey that left me trying to connect the dots using the reintegration of wolves to Yellowstone National and a story about a tree that fell in the woods over one hundred years ago. 

Tune in to listen to one of the most difficult episodes I've ever recorded and quite possibly one of my favorites. 

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Until next time... Be nice. Do good stuff.

"It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through."  –Zig Zigler

Episode 50! 

It's a pretty special day for us here at The Mind Unset because a little over a year ago, episode 1 went live. I remember feeling excited, overwhelmed, and so far behind everyone else in the game. 

The numbers told a tale that did not bode well for new podcasts. For example, of the 2.5 million podcasts out there in the universe, 90% of them will never reach their 20th episode. 

Well, here we are. Still new. Still learning. Still moving forward. 

Episode 50 is all about commitment. But not just any commitment. 

Tune in for your midweek dose of positivity. 

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Albert Einstein said everything in life is vibration. 

Everything in the universe is in a constant state of movement. These movements are referred to as vibrations. The speed or rate of vibration is called frequency. And, from the moment life began on Earth, the planet has had its own natural frequency. 

This frequency enhances the body's natural healing processes and reduces stress and inflammation. As humans evolved, we became more in tune with the Earth’s natural vibrations.

If you think about it, these energies have been explained for centuries in different forms: Auras, halos, chakras, etc.

In Episode 049, I talk about the Schumann Resonance, the Hierarchy of Vibrations, and how raising our vibrations immediately changes our lives for the better. 

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He called it the 2% rule. He explained it like this. When you’re flying a jet, you push the throttle to the limit and then back 2% so that it feels like you’re riding just at the edge. 

He was a legendary figure and you don't know his name. He wrote songs for Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and the Highwaymen and you don't know his name. 

Lee Clayton was tougher on me than any artist I ever worked with and he made me better. In this episode, I tell the story of a fateful show in Amsterdam that left a mark on my journey that I don't think I'll ever forget. 

Complete with an unreleased recording. Tune in for this one. 

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"When your emotions go down, your logic goes up." Amy Morin

I had a recent conversation with someone I love dearly but disagree with on so many levels. 

I told myself before our conversation that I was not going to get emotional. Not going to take the bait and let our "catch-up" trigger me into a pointless debate.

These types of conversations (you know how they go) tend to ramp up the nervous system and get things all outta whack. 

It didn't go so well. 

But, I learned (re-learned) a valuable lesson and discovered something new, Glimmers. 

Episode 047 has a little science, some raw emotion, and some Taylor Swift. Whataya mean they aren't connected? Of course they are.  Let's get into it. 

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Spreadsheets are hard. Asking people for help is hard. Dispensing with self-critical talk, meditation...incredibly hard for me.  1000 pushups? Not hard.

Have you ever aspired to run a marathon or climb Mount Everest? If the answer is yes, you'd do well to acquaint yourself with the 40% Rule.

The Navy S.E.A.Ls use it to push past perceived mental and physical limits and if it works for them, there's gotta be something in it for the rest of us.

In this episode, I talk about the time I took a S.E.A.L. challenge to do 1000 pushups. You'd be surprised what you learn when you attempt the impossible.

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Until next time... Be nice. Do good stuff.