Episodes

Sunday Jun 23, 2024
343. Weekly Guided Reflection: Session 21
Sunday Jun 23, 2024
Sunday Jun 23, 2024
By taking deliberate time for our self and answering simple questions about life, it'll increase our clarity and awareness. It'll help us become more precise in our actions, which will save us time & energy and enhance our experience.
Recorded in Chicago
Questions from this session:
1. What're we grateful for?
2. When was our last deep, relieving, wonderful conversation with a friend?
3. Do we feel we're a different person than we were three months ago? How and why?
4. Do we have any regrets? If so, what are they? How can we minimize their impact on us?
5. What's something in our typical environment that we've noticed a slight shift or change?
6. What are items of significant meaning to us?
7. When we choose food products, what nutritional categories are we prioritizing?
8. What's a food we're looking forward to consuming again soon?
9. What's our vacation mode look like for us? How is it different than our usual? What are we more relaxed about?
10. What would our ultimate vacation look like? What would be involved?
11. What're we curious about recently?

Monday Jun 17, 2024
342. Wiki: Global Cities Index | What are the best cities in the world?
Monday Jun 17, 2024
Monday Jun 17, 2024
We can explore our curiosity through Wikipedia and learn in the process. In this recording we focus on the wiki page of the Global Cities Index. We can evaluate which cities are considered the best in the world. Two cities stand out as best. Eight stand out in the next tier. How many American cities made it into the Global Cities Index?

Sunday Jun 16, 2024
341. Weekly Guided Reflection: Session 20
Sunday Jun 16, 2024
Sunday Jun 16, 2024
By taking deliberate time for our self and answering simple questions about life, it'll increase our clarity and awareness. It'll help us become more precise in our actions, which will save us time & energy and enhance our experience.
Recorded in Wisconsin
Questions from this session:
1. What're we grateful for?
2. What limits or boundaries are we pushing in our life intentionally?
3. What's something that's occupying space on our mind recently?
4. When was the last big life change we experienced?
5. What's an experiment we're energized by right now? Something we're open to.
6. What're our favorite vegetables?
7. How do we go about reading books? Do we read about people, information, or fictional stories?
8. What are we curious about right now?
9. What's a characteristic we possess that's unique?
10. What're we energized for this upcoming week?

Monday Jun 10, 2024
340. How I Win at Fantasy Baseball & the Approach I Use
Monday Jun 10, 2024
Monday Jun 10, 2024
If you're looking to improve at fantasy sports, this recording is for you. I share my winning approach of making right decisions that lead to successful seasons. I hope this serves as an example of how we can apply our self-development concepts to many areas of our life. Clarity, Patience, and Observing the data in front of us.

Sunday Jun 09, 2024
339. Weekly Guided Reflection: Session 19
Sunday Jun 09, 2024
Sunday Jun 09, 2024
By taking deliberate time for our self and answering simple questions about life, it'll increase our clarity and awareness. It'll help us become more precise in our actions, which will save us time & energy and enhance our experience.
Recorded in Chicago
Questions from this session:
1. What're we grateful for?
2. How do we go about footwear inside? Barefoot? Socks? Shoes?
3. What things have been in front of us? What things, if we're open, can we act on?
4. What's our favorite summer dessert?
5. This summer, how can we be more useful to others? How can we contribute?
6. What's a skill we have to contribute and be useful?
7. What's something we're energized for coming up?
8. What's a moment we've had with our friends celebrating and being fully present?
9. Where do we want to travel next?
10. What's a company we appreciate?
11. This summer, how will we incorporate movement into our life more?

Monday Jun 03, 2024
338. WFH at Coffee Shops: Human Connection Increase or Decrease?
Monday Jun 03, 2024
Monday Jun 03, 2024
Have coffee shops post-pandemic become more WFH spaces than community gathering spaces? Sharing observations and thoughts on environmental changes in local coffee shops. Digital devices in public spaces leading to less human interaction? Do WFH environments generate higher profits for coffee shops? What's the future of it?

Sunday Jun 02, 2024
337. Weekly Guided Reflection: Session 18 on Lake Michigan
Sunday Jun 02, 2024
Sunday Jun 02, 2024
By taking deliberate time for our self and answering simple questions about life, it'll increase our clarity and awareness. It'll help us become more precise in our actions, which will save us time & energy and enhance our experience.
Recorded on Lake Michigan in Chicago
Questions from this session:
1. What're we grateful for?
2. In the last hour, what activities did we do or information we consumed? How do we feel?
3. What's the last conscious purchase we made and why?
4. What's something small in our life that we can experiment with to observe any possible differences?
5. What's a fad we've observed around us? What're our thoughts on it?
6. What's something small we can do to help our community or environment around us?
7. What's an interesting thing we observed a human being do recently?
8. What's an art form we can explore more to lose our self in? What can we pull from, learn, and apply?
9. What's our favorite TV show or film that has provided meaning to us?
10. What're we energized for next week?

Monday May 27, 2024
336. Wiki Adventure: Sorbonne (Natural History Museums & World Fairs)
Monday May 27, 2024
Monday May 27, 2024
A spark of curiosity can light our world on fire. In this episode, we're bringing back an exercise we used to perform in 2019: wiki rabbit hole adventures. We set a timer and start with one word and see where we go and what we learn. We opened to a random page from a book lying around "History of Libraries in the Western World." The phrase or word that stood out to us: Sorbonne. In brief time, we reflected most on natural history museums in the world and world fairs.

Sunday May 26, 2024
335. Weekly Guided Reflection: Session 17
Sunday May 26, 2024
Sunday May 26, 2024
By taking deliberate time for our self and answering simple questions about life, it'll increase our clarity and awareness. It'll help us become more precise in our actions, which will save us time & energy and enhance our experience.
Recorded in Wisconsin
Questions from this session:
1. How do we feel? Physically and mentally
2. What're we grateful for?
3. What's something coming up that could be disrupted by circumstances outside our control? How can we be and stay prepared?
4. What're our preferred aesthetics or color scheme? Think clothing, style, decorating our living space
5. What're small moments from childhood that evoked emotions inside us? For example, being in a classroom looking outside the window on a beautiful spring day before summer break
6. What's something we view as a gem? That something that feels like finding treasure when we happen upon it
7. Think of a specific person we care about. What's a simple action we can do for them that demonstrates they're on our mind?
8. What's an outdoor activity we enjoy doing at home?
9. Of family & friends, whose birthday is next? What is our plan for them? How do we remember our family & friends' birthdays?
10. What's something this upcoming week we can approach with childlike wonder—inspiring imagination and passion?

Monday May 20, 2024
334. Why the NBA is the Most Engaging Sport in Conversations
Monday May 20, 2024
Monday May 20, 2024
Over the weekend, we were at a rooftop party in Chicago. What sport dominated conversation? The NBA. But dominates as the most talked about sport in cities (and even rural areas). Why? When the NFL is the most popular, how does the NBA excel? Lower barrier of entry and humans love of NBA storylines have the most at stake. But will lack of innovation dilute its product and significance?