Recalibrating Podcast

#14: Finding Your Voice Through Story Flow-Based Character Development The written version of this podcast can be read at https://www.wanderloots.com/recalibrating-14 Last week, I provided three tools for your journey of self-awareness on the path of self-actualization: Mindfulness and meditation help to improve attention and find comfort with change. Journaling provides data that can be used to i...

#13: Self-Awareness and Story Comfort in Constant Change The written version of this podcast can be read at https://www.wanderloots.com/recalibrating-13 Last week, we levelled up to the third tier of Maslow's Hierarchy: Belonging and Love Needs. I discussed the value of finding True Community and developing why many people struggle with the idea of change. This week, we are going to continue with...

#12: Connection and True Community Burnout and Belonging The written version of this podcast can be read at https://www.wanderloots.com/recalibrating-12 Last week, we touched on personal knowledge management (PKM) as a way to seek new experiences, make sense of what we have experienced, and share those experiences with others. This week, we are going to continue on the last point, sharing experien...

#11: Augmented Personal Knowledge Management Natural Seeking, Intuitive Sense-Making, Economical Sharing The written version of this podcast can be read at https://www.wanderloots.com/recalibrating-11 Last week, we touched on self-regulation and how automation can be used to recalibrate our regulation systems. This week, I thought it would be a good idea to map and recap the different elements of...

#10: Automating Self-Regulation Learning to Solve Future Problems, Now Before we consider what actions to automate, it is important to ask: what actions should we automate? It's very easy to get lost in the details of automation, trying to automate everything we can, without considering what is actually worth automating. The best way (in my opinion) to determine which tasks are worth automating is...

#9: Mental Safety From AI-nxiety Learning to Live With AI Continuing on Maslow's Hierarchy Level 2 with Financial Security and Mental Safety from Entries 6-8, this week I am going to touch on artificial intelligence (AI). This topic is massive. It's hard to emphasize how much detail and research goes into truly understanding AI. I have been researching AI for many years, much more seriously since...

#8: Creating Income Without Burnout Maximizing Momentum and Minimizing Friction Last week in Entry #7 , I touched on quite a few topics related to Building a Sustainable Creation System for creating income without burnout. I explained how we can use data, information, and knowledge to direct the impact of our efforts when we share creations (including knowledge work) with others. In particular, I...

#7: Building A Sustainable Creation System Analyzing Natural Self-Expression To Identify Existing Value Last week, we considered how to achieve the seemingly paradoxical combination of financial security and mental safety by looking at Level 2 of Maslow's hierarchy for guidance. To achieve this balance, I proposed two major goals: Generate sufficient income to satisfy my needs (food, debt, mortgag...

#6: Financial Security and Mental Safety Prioritizing Individual Mental Models for Income Generation In this Entry, we are going to move on to the second layer of Maslow's Hierarchy. Now that we've covered the basics in Entries 1-5 , let's continue on the path of self-actualization. The next layer of Maslow's hierarchy is security and safety needs. I generally associate this level with having a pl...

Entry #5: Intuitively Onwards, Inwards, and Upwards Procrastination, Emotional Regulation, and Intuitive Creation Systems In this entry, I discuss how to break the loop of procrastination and overthinking. The goal is to recognize when I am in a loop, going in circles. By taking a mindful moment, I can reassess the situation and then intuitively take a different path. That path may not always be f...

Entry #4: Beginning With Breath Habit Stacking on a Foundation of Breathing One week into my "funemployment" I decided to take some time to look back and reflect on what I had accomplished and how I could improve next week. I actually still felt a bit burnt out; the opposite of my intentions. My system was not fully working. Something still needed to change. I realized that, while I had laid out m...

Entry #3: Building Habits From The Ground Up To not only reach self-actualization, but also to reach it consistently, I knew that I would need to start from the beginning. I needed to undergo a complete change in my daily approach to life. Based on my goals and personality, I knew I would benefit from adding structure to my days in a way that introduced continuous building. Each day, a new buildin...

Entry #2: The Path of Self-Actualization One month ago I gave my resignation. Yesterday was my last day 😌 I resigned from the intellectual property law firm I have worked at since 2016. Many people have asked me what I am doing next? Which firm I am going to? Which company have I joined? The answer? Nothing, none of them. Welcome to the Recalibrating Podcast 🧭 ✨ Join me as I explore the depth o...

Entry #1: What Recalibrating Means To Me I have done what I “should” do for most of my life. I worked hard to get into a good university for mechanical engineering, finishing second in my class, got into law school, got a job as a lawyer, and passed the exams to become a patent agent in Canada and the US, winning multiple awards for the highest score. Now what? Welcome to the Recalibrating Podcast...