This Is Your Mind Ranting

I was told that I am someone’s favorite uncle. That means more to me than any accolades that I didn’t receive.

I am going to read a letter that I typed up for a speech at my father in law’s funeral service. It took me some time to write it up and I don’t have too many regrets writing it, expect I felt it was bad. You be the judge.

Fasting along with meditation can get you closer to your mortality than most things expect near-death experiences. On this episode, I share with you my continuing experience towards fasting to help me grieve.

This is the destruction of a negative belief. So many years of hating myself and thinking that I was dumb and I don’t deserve curiosity came to a head. This episode is about what went on in my mind and soul after I challenged a negative belief with the help of some famous exercises.

Ryan Holiday’s book The Daily Stoic is a nice gift to yourself. If you lean on these philosophers and the words that have survived for 2000 plus years, you’ll be better off than most. Also, I make a slight point against Mr. Holiday, but he’s a better stoic than I.

Sometimes the nicest people have a religious background and some of the most vile people can be Christians. People are irrational and religion sometimes doesn’t make it better. Needless to say, I was gifted with blessings by a Christian friend.

If you lose a loved one, you need to allow yourself to cry… but you also need to prepare for the emotional roller coaster that comes with arrangements and family. Hopefully, this checklist helps.

Here’s a tip: if the person who is ranting about what you are creating and is telling you it sucks, but can’t tell you how to fix it, they have nothing of value to share with you ever again… this includes family and close friends.

I’ll tell you what’s something to rant about: growing up poor and not knowing if you were good enough for much. I get a little personal here but I am doing it to show my rants can be about myself and my previous environments. I think it was necessary for me to share this with you.

A quick reminder that the world might be going to hell, but you still got things to work on.

Third chunk of resources to look over on your free time instead of playing Fortnite or slot games.

I told you some changes were coming… This is Your Mind Ranting is now on Twitter… again. Also Truth Social is topping the App Store charts but that’s gonna be terrible.

I know you want that new watch, suit, bag, and fun toy, but invest that money in some crypto or if you’re old like me: blue chip stocks and ETF’s. It’s the little movements that make it worth living

Here are some more places to get your mind working and to make you upset as well.

Get over that hump. Fear is natural, but that fear doesn’t give a crap about how it makes you feel. Push it back and fight.

My Wife and I spent Sunday and Valentine’s Day delivering food because we were too tired to eat out at a fancy restaurant and we wanted to get out of the house for a bit. The money was really good too! Spend some time with your partner doing something different and exciting.

TIYMR gives you some reading recommendations

Working out and doing hard things will get you a better life.

An expansion of the mind is always a good thing.

I know… I can’t get enough of reading and neither should you.

Find a hidden passion that you have chosen to ignore in the past and explore it again with the same vigor that you do at work and with your family. You got 10-20 minutes to spare somewhere.

Here is a link to that paper by Jonas Kaplan and Sam Harris. Read it twice if you need to, but don’t think to hard on it. https://www.nature.com/articles/srep39589

I shoot you a couple of techniques that I learned about how to read better and faster. These techniques are not my own but they did help me challenge my feelings and beliefs on reading

There are some good changes coming to this brand and I hope you all enjoy it and maybe get some benefit from it as well. Thank you for your support and patience.

If your spouse or family members look stressed and you are feeling their wrath, why not try some meditation? Get an app for it if you have to, but join them in this experience. I’m no expert in the skill and as I learn more about it, it gets challenging. That’s fun to me and I was excited to share this with my wife. She hates the technique but I think it will do good for her. She hopefully will be...