Don’t Talk Like A Can’t
PURSUIT OF CALM #49 DON'T TALK LIKE A CAN'T A Prescription For A Good Life Understandably, [...]
Mind Your Own Business
PURSUIT OF CALM #48 Strategies To Become Your Best Possible Self Part 2. How much [...]
Identify What You Can & Cannot Control
PURSUIT OF CALM #47 Identify What You Can & Cannot Control Strategies To Become Your [...]
Be Mindful Not To Adopt Other People’s Negative Views
PURSUIT OF CALM #46 Strategies Preserve Your Tranquility Part Six Be Mindful Not To Adopt Other [...]
Annoyance Breeds Hostility
PURSUIT OF CALM #45 Strategies Preserve Your Tranquility Part Five Annoyance Breeds Hostility & Anger Our [...]
Embrace Fate
PURSUIT OF CALM #44 Strategies Preserve Your Tranquility Part Four EMBRACE FATE... “I never thought I [...]
The World Needs Annoying People
Strategies Preserve Your Tranquility Part Three PURSUIT OF CALM #43 Remember: The World Needs Annoying People Another [...]
Compose Yourself In Advance
Strategies Preserve Your Tranquility: Part Two PURSUIT OF CALM #42 Compose Yourself In Advance In [...]
Preserve Your Tranquility
Preserve Your Tranquility: Part One PURSUIT OF CALM #41 When It Comes To Other People… One [...]
Reflect On Your Day
REFLECT ON YOUR DAY PURSUIT OF CALM #40 “Admit not sleep into your tender eyelids [...]
Be Friendlier With Yourself
BE FRIENDLIER WITH YOURSELF PURSUIT OF CALM #39 Life is stressful and complicated, but you [...]
Courageous Practical Realism
PURSUIT OF CALM #38 These days we can all feel a somewhat strong intuitive [...]
Is It Your Life That’s The Enemy?
Response-Ability Part 2 PURSUIT OF CALM #37 Your life is not determined by what [...]
Vitality is Response-Ability
PURSUIT OF CALM #36 Physical training for mental well-being Mind training for physical well-being [...]
Fearlessness
VITALITY IS FEARLESSNESS PURSUIT OF CALM #35 Physical training for mental well-being Mind training for [...]
Vitality is Self-Kindness
PURSUIT OF CALM #34 Physical training for mental well-being Mind training for physical well-being For [...]
Vitality Is Self Awareness
PURSUIT OF CALM #33 Physical training for mental well-being Mind training for physical well-being [...]
Vitality Is Sensitivity
PURSUIT OF CALM #32 Physical training for mental well-being Mind training for physical well-being [...]
Vitality is Passion
VITALITY IS PASSION PURSUIT OF CALM #31 Physical training for mental well-being Mind training for [...]
What’s Making Us Dull & Lazy?
PURSUIT OF CALM #29 Physical training for mental well-being Mind training for physical well-being [...]
Happiness Making You Miserable?
PURSUIT OF CALM #28 Physical training for mental well-being / Mind training for physical well-being My [...]
Work With Your Biggest Obstacle First
PURSUIT OF CALM #27 Physical training for mental well-being Mind training for physical well-being 2022 [...]
Signs We May Need More Calm In Our Lives
PURSUIT OF CALM #26 Physical training for mental well-being Mind training for physical well-being [...]
Does It Matter?
PURSUIT OF CALM #25 Physical training for mental well-being Mind training for physical well-being [...]
8 Strength & Fitness Tests That Gauge Your Longevity
PURSUIT OF CALM #24 Physical training for mental well-being Mind training for physical well-being Hello [...]
Movement Requires Strength
PURSUIT OF CALM #23 Physical training for mental well-being Mind training for physical well-being Hello [...]
I’m Too Busy For This Shit
Pursuit of Calm #22 Hello Friends... You may well of read my recent articles [...]
How To Do Everything, Better
Pursuit of Calm #21 “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted [...]
Prehab or Rehab?
Pursuit of Calm #19 Never underestimate the power of the mind. Working with our inner [...]
Tabula Rasa
Pursuit of Calm #18 Want to be good? Then do good! Hello Friends... You could [...]
Know Your Nose
Pursuit of Calm #17 "I took a deep breath and listened to the old [...]
Seek A Better Self To Escape To
Pursuit of Calm #16 As we all know, but often forget, THE COMPANY we [...]
Where Are You Taking Refuge?
“WHERE ARE YOU TAKING REFUGE?” Pursuit of Calm #15 “Remember that your ruling reason becomes [...]
Unlearn To Learn
UNLEARN TO LEARN The Pursuit of Calm #14 Is our ability to garner a healthier, [...]
You Lucky, Lucky Bastard
Throughout my entire adult life I've been very fortunate to have extensively travelled, lived and worked [...]
Is Death The Reminder We All Need?
The Pursuit of Calm #12 "On Average we spend less time outdoors than maximum security [...]
Life Is Too Short
In my last post "Choose Life", I finished the article posing the question, "how many summers do you have [...]
Choose Life
Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big [...]
Focused Intention
Nowbeing (the pursuit of calm) is a kind of focused attention that allows us to [...]
CALM: A PRESCRIPTION FOR HAPPINESS?
Pursuit of Calm #8 Being the start of the new fiscal year, all of us [...]
Improve The Quality of Your Day
We ALL know, and adore, what it feels like to wake up after a good [...]
Morning, Be With Yourself
The Pursuit of Calm: #6 "WHEN YOU ARISE IN THE MORNING, THINK WHAT A PRECIOUS [...]
Calm: A Remedy For Low Self-Esteem
The Pursuit of Calm: #5 In conversations with the Dalai Lama during a meeting in [...]
Be The Calm
The Pursuit of Calm #5 The question often arises as to why those that are 'calm' seemingly, [...]
Living Virtues
Living Virtues - A Daily Self-Improvement Routine The Pursuit of Calm: #4 In 1726, at [...]
TRIGGERED, MUCH?
The Pursuit of Calm: #3 Nowadays, almost all of us wish we could be calmer, [...]
CULTIVATE YOURSELF FROM WITHIN
To be calm is the highest achievement of the self. - Zen proverb Calm-on... For someone [...]
The Mind-Body Problem
The Pursuit of Calm: #1 Introduction One of the, if not the most, uniquely peculiar [...]
SMALL HINGES OPENS BIG DOORS
I seem to always be blabbering on about how important it is to apply attention, intention and [...]
SLOW FOOD – Everything Fast Food Is Not
What is Slow Food? Slow Food was started by Carlo Petrini and a group of [...]
Dying To Live, or Living To Die?
One of the key 'life lessons' I understood, and continue to practice and learn, from my [...]
THE WISDUMB OF ESCAPE
FROM WORRIER TO (NOVICE) WARRIOR As I walked out of my bathroom the other [...]
Smartphone Addiction: Is It Making Us Dummer?
"IS SMARTPHONE ADDICTION MAKING US DUMMER?" (yes...that's a deliberate typo) “These days we have Smartphones, Smart-cars, [...]
FUCK YOUR COFFEE ORDER
Why Too Much Choice Is Bad For Your NOWBEING There's a classic 20 second 'Coffee scene" [...]
What On Earth Are You Thinking?
WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU THINKING? A PHILOSOPHICAL MIND HACK TO CALM THE F*** DOWN If [...]
8 STRATEGIES TO ACHIEVE A FLOW-MINDSET
'8 Strategies To Achieve A Flow-Mindset' Change your habits, change your life Welcome back... I think most [...]
Own Up To Envy
ENVY Envy is an emotion which occurs when a person lacks another's superior quality, achievement, or [...]
Never Drink Alcohol
Welcome back! I decided to broach the alcohol theme once again for a couple of reasons...well [...]
It’s Not The Problem That’s The Problem
Welcome back... A couple of weeks back I posted an article which contained a recent [...]
YODA WAS A STOIC
YODA WAS A STOIC & COUNTER-HABITUAL JEDI MOFO Given it's the start of 2021, the reoccurring [...]
We’re All Addicts
WE'RE ALL ADDICTS... HOW DO YOU SELF-MEDICATE? In my last post, I finished the article with the [...]
6 ‘Epic’ Epictetus Life-Lesson For 2021
Last week The Guardian Newspaper published an article with the results of a poll they conducted for 'word [...]
I’m So Fed-Up With Joy
One of my uncle's in Ireland, has a 'chipper' van parked on the side of [...]
Why Impatient People Gave Me The Shits…
COME AS YOU ARE. 'There's a common misunderstanding among all the human beings who have ever [...]
JUST BREATHE FFS
JUST BREATHE FFS...(For your Future Self) Loss of Perspective One of our greatest flaws as humans [...]
It's What You Do 'Most' of The Time That Counts In my last post I [...]
My old mate Marcus Aurelius said it best some 2000 years ago... "Everything we hear is an [...]
Stop Wasting Time & Start Appreciating Existence
Last week I headed to Albany in Western Australia's great southern region to visit my parents. I'm sure [...]
What Attention Are You Giving Yourself?
"In Europe and the US, the average person spends 84 per cent of their life [...]
Exercise: An Exercise in Simply Self-Forgetting Part 1.
What are the required elements, the conventional prescription if you like, for a successful modern [...]
WARNING!…SIDE EFFECTS OF DRINKING LESS ALCOHOL MAY INCLUDE…
Do you know what was the best thing I heard last week? My gorgeous sister Catherine popped [...]
2 Tactics To Recalibrate Your Thinking
How often have you got to the end of your weekend, feeling just as exhausted [...]
K.I.S.S. MY FAST
The best of all medicines is resting and farting...I mean fasting Isn't eating great!? On one [...]
How To Get In The Best Shape Possible
Optimal Sleep Is Your M.E.T.A. (Most Effective Tactic Available) Always Do What Your Mother Tells You [...]
16 Ways To Hone Resilient Thinking “It’s precisely in times of immunity from care that the soul [...]
Mind Over Muscle: Part 1
When...we know ourselves. We...can change ourselves. Then...we can create the new habits of thinking, feeling and behaving [...]
What Is Your Primary Distraction?
Hello and welcome back... So last Sunday you saw the picture, now for some context... Back in [...]
What’s The M.E.T.A?
LIFE IS THE WORKOUT The birds they sang At the break of day Start again [...]
MUSCLE LOSS – THE SILENT EPIDEMIC
"No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It [...]
5 HEALTHY WAYS TO LOSE WEIGHT [AND RECLAIM YOUR LIFE FOR GOOD] The reality is, when [...]
LET’S CHEW THE FAT
Weight loss is commonly recommended for purported health benefits however this can instil a misplaced [...]
Stop being an amateur.
CHANGE YOUR MIND... The Daily Show reported recently that scientists in Japan had invented a [...]
EAT LESS, TRAIN LESS, STRESS LESS…
EXERCISE & TRAINING ARE NOT THE MOST EFFICIENT METHODS OF LOSING BODY FAT I don't [...]
WHO AM I & WHAT DO I WANT?
I tend not to watch too much TV these days...actually let me rephrase that, I tend [...]
THERE IS NOTHING DEEP DOWN INSIDE US EXCEPT WHAT WE HAVE PUT THERE OURSELVES
HOW DO WE GET OVER THE PROBLEM OF GETTING OVER A PROBLEM? Let's kick off with a quote from my pal the gladiator, Roman Generalé, [...]
IT’S NOT WHAT YOU THINK, BUT HOW YOU THINK.
Want to live a more fulfilled life and give less fucks? Want to age and [...]
ADVERSITY DOESN’T DISCRIMINATE
Life is a battlefield... (not to be confused with the equally important 80's anthem "Love is [...]
LEARN FROM THE PEOPLE WHO CRITICISE YOU, FRUSTRATE YOU & ANNOY YOU.
It's Not Me...It's You! We have absolutely no control how we're treated by other people. [...]
Insulin Resistance – Part 3
The measure of a truly great person is the courtesy with which they treat all [...]
So, what philosophical nonsense am I going to proffer in this week preamble? Well, it's [...]
Insulin Resistance – What Is It Good For?
Prelude... "The life which is unexamined is not worth living" - Socrates My o'mate Socrates is often [...]
It’s All About Me…
Welcome to this weeks confab... Righto, allow me get 'my' definition of 'selfish' out of [...]
Is This The Reality Check We Need?
Now, now is the time... I know I'm probably speaking way, way too early, but [...]
Do Good, Be Good…
The "C" Word... Admittedly, and I'm sure like everyone else, I've been both a little distracted [...]
2% of Your Day…That’s All It Takes
MORNING ROUTINE: NUMERO DEUX Nutrition, sleep, mind-set, productivity, performance, fitness, wellbeing, sex, relationships etc - [...]
IF YOU DON’T PRIORITISE YOUR LIFE, SOMEONE ELSE WILL
WHAT HABITS I'M CURRENTLY FUNDING...? Religiously...each and every morning, usually just before 4am, I wake up, [...]
ASK YOURSELF... Do I want to, do I need to… improve my life-trajectory? How [...]
Less Is Best…
Simplicity is King! My current lifestyle is pretty bloody simple...and in my humble opinion, pretty [...]
IF YOU CARE FOR YOURSELF AT ALL…
If you want some good, (then) get it from yourself... As you all probably may know [...]
Deliberately Practice Stress-Testing To Build Resilience
Repetition Is The Mother of Mastery I don't write nor publish my rabbiting-on for no [...]
DISTRACTION
Does this sound familiar? ...'I wonder what the weather in Norway is at the moment?' [...]
CHOOSE YOUR PROBLEMS: Why Everyday We have An Opportunity To Raise The Standard of Our Problems
And the winner is... If f****** up was an Olympic event I'm pretty sure I'd give [...]
LEAD WITH YOUR VULNERABILITY
OK, I'll go first.... I. AM. A. LEONARD. COHEN. TRAGIC... I say that with great [...]
52 Ways To Be Kind and Offer Kindness
1. Give a big tip. Maybe you see the same Barrista each morning, give them [...]
Why It’s Essential To Make Kindness A Habit
Let's Make Kindness Great Again Any endeavour, and I honestly believe any attempt to improve [...]
STOP BELIEVING, START SEEKING and Find Your Philosophy
Sometimes You Have To Walk A Long Way In The Wrong Direction To get Where [...]
“Know Thyself”…Otherwise You’ll Never Truly Appreciate How Fucked Up You Were
One Does Not Become Fully Human Painlessly. I’ll try, and probably fail, but will continue [...]
The Real Treasure We Seek is Within Ourselves
One does not become fully human painlessly... Shit going wrong in your life is the [...]
Savour The Moments
As Benjamin Franklin said “Happiness consist more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every [...]
New Website
My new website is now live: myfutureself.com.au Make sure you let people know where to [...]