Month: May 2024

  • Easy Exercise, Massive benefit; Is this for real?

    Easy Exercise, Massive benefit; Is this for real?

    Today we are going to talk about the _Soleus Push-up_ The soleus push-up is an excellent exercise technique to learn about. It’s extremely easy to do, but research shows its benefits are massively disproportionate to the effort required to do it. It can be thought of as a mini exercise, especially good for those busy…

  • Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Be Proactive, Part 2

    Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Be Proactive, Part 2

    A second point raised by Stephen Covey relating to being proactive, is to understand the scope of our actions. Covey distinguishes between the Circle of Influence (things you can do something about) and the Circle of Concern (things over which you have no control). Proactive people focus their energy on the Circle of Influence, working…

  • Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Be Proactive, Part 1

    Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Be Proactive, Part 1

    For today’s objective we’re looking at the first habit from Steven Covey’s seminal book, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. The title of the first habit is: Be Proactive. We’ve already, in a previous video, looked at “taking responsibility” being the flip-side of the coin, where the other face is ”taking control.” We saw in…

  • Beat Doomscrolling Pt 2

    Beat Doomscrolling Pt 2

    This is the second part of my look at Doomscrolling, which can occur as a part of social media addiction or compulsion. In this video I look at a second more powerful technique than the one we looked at in the first part for dealing with the problem of doomscrolling compulsion. I do a recap…

  • Beat Doomscrolling Pt 1

    Beat Doomscrolling Pt 1

    We’ve all been there at some time or other. Some to a greater degree, some to a lesser degree: Obsessivley scrolling through post after post, until we are bored, but often we keep doing it anyway. This is “Doomscrolling” and is indicative of Social Media compulsion or addiction. In this video, I discuss Doomscrolling. I…