Meditation in TRAFFIC

Video 20/90 Rule 3: Make friends with people who want the best for you - Jordan Peterson Make friends with people who want the best for YOU. Too many of us are caught in a cycle of either trying to save people or just in a toxic environment itself that we really don't have a great support system all it really takes is audit in who is in your immediate circle. Who is in your ear? Who's in your head...

Video 19/90 Rule 4 (not 2) "Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, NOT to who someone else is today" - Jordan Peterson Too many of us focus on what others have. Their talents Their skills Their privilege Their status When We should really be looking at our own growth. There are no overnight successes, just overnight noticing of years and years of hard work. Dedication. What are you doing on a...

Montgomeryborg.com Video 18/90 12 Rules for life by Jordan Peterson Rule 1: Stand Up Straight With Your Shoulders Back This is crucial, it’s how you present yourself to the world, but also it regulates your serotonin levels. Our postures reflect what is happening in our brains, Are we hunched over or are we upright to face the world. An upright position, with your shoulders back and chest exposed,...

Video 17/90 This quote today couldn't be more apt to these terribly tumultuous times. "The 1st rule is to do good, even when others don't. The 2nd rule is to cast aside emotions and to seek to know things for what they really are" -Marcus Aurelius Too many of us, including myself, are too caught up in emotions to see the whole picture. Too often, we become the emotions, which takes us out of our h...

Video 16/90 Growth Mindset vs Fixed Mindset When facing an obstacle you cannot overcome, what is your inner dialogue? Do you think, "I cannot overcome this, I'm stuck in my abilities" Or Do you think, "I will learn how to overcome this" It's a pivotal choice that will determine everything in your life. Can you grow or are you stuck? The truth is, all of us have an immense capacity to grow, but if...

Video 15/90 "We act like mortal in all that we fear, and Immortals in all that we desire" -Seneca This quote from The Daily Stoic Instagram page. I always start my mornings with a glance at anything philosophical and retrospective in order to be more humble, and hopefully, more wise. Too many of the things we do are based on fear, as a mortal, and based on desire, as an immortal. We do not take th...

Video 14/90 One take, let's go "All you need are these: Certainty of judgment, in the present moment Action for the common good, in the present moment And, An attitude of gratitude, in the present moment." -Marcus Aurelius Most importantly, Be in the present moment. Not in some far off fantasy or fear of the past or future montomeryborg.com

Video 13/90 "You don't need to have an opinion on everything. Don't get worked up on things you cannot control. These things did not ask for you attention. Leave them alone." -Marcus Aurelius  We all spend too much time focusing on what we can't control, and the bottom line is, we only have so much time and energy to give in a day. What are you wasting your energy on?

Video 12/90  The holidays always bring new experiences for me. I got roped into doing yoga for the first time with my sister Madeleine Borg, from home of course, and it was an absolutely enlightening experience. I'd had my preconceived notions of what yoga was, but without doing it, I was unable to make a full assessment.  Recently, I've been diving deep into Buddhist philosophy and how...

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It always amazes me how terrible architects are at marketing their own skills. It's a pretty typical process of building relationships and turning them into work. Easier said than done. There's plenty of other traditional and non traditional methods of marketing that architects must use.

Video 9/90 Why do we let fear stand in front of us instead of pushing us from behind?

I am moving out of my apartment on Los Angeles down to San Diego with my amazing girlfriend @vanessachiquita I couldn't be more excited to move again (3rd time in 2 years), and explore more of this world of ours. I always appreciate new horizons, everything from the mundane, like finding the grocery store, to finding the beautiful moments each city has to offer. I'm a little familiar with #SanDieg...

In this digital age, every company, especially architecture firms, must treat themselves as a media company. There are too many firms out there with absolutely no digital presence and are failing. Architecture is a person to person referral type of business, but that can be extremely limiting. That, combined with the fact of the hifalutin esoteric nature of architectural discourse, it can put peop...

Snipit83: "Leisure without study is death, a tomb for a living person." -Seneca Too many of us in this covid era don't know how to spend our newfound time. It must be in study. Only there lies growth when experience is unavailable. 

This is all about the #linkedin #growin90 challenge. 

This snipit is about me joining the #growin90 challenge where we post a video everyday on linkedin for 90 days

“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”  Too many of us suffer from needless anxiety that is only just a figment of our imagination anyway. Even the fear of death is just an abstraction that we take quite personally. 

Well, my hard drive crashed and I have work to do. It's actually not too bad because my last pass at it felt rushed, so now I get to do it how I really wanted to do in the first place.

I cam across this quote this morning while looking at the daily stoic page on instagram and I came across this quote  "let us prepare our minds as if we'd come to the very end of life. Let us postpone nothing." by Sneca This quote couldn't be more on point to how our society is today (or at least me): justifying to myself "oh, i'll do it tomorrow, when we all know that's a lie because i'll ju...

I came across the quote by Marcus Aurelius, "Love the hand that fate deals you and play it as your own, for what could be more fitting?" only the acceptance of the now can free out mind, and a step beyond that is absolute ownership of the moment.  Once you claim ownership. you can begin to change your reality

Upon listening to Jordan Peterson being interviewed by Patrick Bet-David, they came across the idea of optimal privation and how it can be leveraged to grow into all we can be. No one wants to leave someone out in the cold, but no one wants to be coddle someone into dependence (unless you're sick)

Just recorded the fifth episode of the Architect's Purpose Podcast: The Foutainhead Revisted

This episode is all about analyzing the second half of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead. It talks about Roark's battle with the public opinion and his courtroom speech about the individual vs the collective.   

Living life in a way that puts you into the flow state as much as possible is of the utmost priority as we try to develop our skills. Only through intense awareness can we get into a state of consciousness that allows us to sop thinking and just do. be instinctual.