Uppercase Life

Life is full of cycles. We can see them all around us. We can look outside. We see the seasons changing. Unless you're in California, of course, we can see plants growing, blooming, dying and growing again. And we talk about things like the circle of life, because we know that life is full of cycles and you also are full of cycles. In fact, there's one in particular I want to talk to you about cal...

You're listening to The Uppercase Life where we make technology work for us. And I'm your host, Joseph Brewster. Like you, I have numerous apps on my smartphone, and they're pretty cool. I mean, there's so many apps in the world to do so many cool things from order food online to buying your movie tickets in advance to translating languages. But there are a few apps that have the distinction of re...

You're listening to the Uppercase Life, and I'm your host, Joseph Brewster. Life is hard. You need money. The cost of everything is up. Jobs are harder to find. And sometimes it feels like we have a lot of reasons to complain and feel discontent. There's political division. There's cultural problems. There's financial problems. There's probably difficulties within your own home. Among family membe...

In 1929, things are a little different than they are now in the working world. Sunday's We're a day off and most establishments were closed on Sundays. Most restaurants, gas stations, people on the whole just didn't expect to be working on a Sunday. But in a very controversial and now legendary move, Joseph Stalin in what was then the Soviet Union, decided that Sunday was a wasted day. He was sche...

A couple of years back, I was invited to come and speak to a group of business women. Most of them were business owners. We're CEOs or we're launching startups at the time. And I can't remember exactly what it was that I talked about, but I know that it was about time management and scheduling and about how that, regardless of how busy you were, that you could accomplish your goals. And I felt lik...

Adulting is hard. And I write. I mean, I think all of us at some point or another feel like I don't want to be an adult being a child was so much more fun. And if that's you, if that's the way you have been feeling about being an adult, I want to challenge you that that is a matter of perspective and that you as an adult have a lot of autonomy to create fun for yourself. In fact, being an adult ca...

Picture this. You have a question about something. You're trying to accomplish a task. And you think to yourself, I really need to look up some information about how to do this. You think what better place to go than YouTube? So you open your browser, you type YouTube, you go to the front page of YouTube and at the very top of the page you see a trailer for an upcoming movie that piques your inter...

You're listening to The Uppercase Life, and I'm your host, Joseph Brewster. Are you listening? Statistically speaking, you're probably doing something else right now. Driving. Working. Some other task. Is occupying your mind at the same time. You're listening to this podcast. You have an average attention span of 4.2 5 seconds. That's pretty impressive. But it makes sense when you think about the...

You're listening to The Uppercase Life where we're not just doing good things. We're doing great things. And I'm your host, Joseph Brewster. If you are anything like me, there's a lot of things you want to do in the world. Can you relate to that sentiment? I have sometimes felt like if I had five lifetimes, I still couldn't accomplish all the cool things that I'd really love to try to create, to e...

You're listening to The Uppercase Life where we're developing the stamina to work harder and go farther because we've got things to do. I'm your host, Joseph Brewster. This is part two in a two part series on stress. And if you haven't already, I encourage you to go back to listen to the previous episode about types of stress and how to deal with them. But today, I want to talk about something a l...

You're listening to The Uppercase Life where we're taking care of ourselves so we can take care of others. Stress is a part of life. If you're trying to do difficult things, or really if you're just trying to stay alive for any length of time, you should expect to experience stress. All those stress itself is normal, and it's nothing to be ashamed of. Unmanaged stress can really become dangerous t...

Welcome to The Uppercase Life, where we're learning to identify where the highest value lies. I'm your host, Joseph Brewster.  So I was recently reading an article about astronauts in space, and I found this fact really intriguing. So living and working in space is really mentally strenuous for an astronaut, as you can imagine, all kinds of things that are very unlike living on the Earth. But the...

You're listening to the upper case life, where we look for joy in the little things. And I'm your host, Joseph Brewster.  Recently, I was talking with young men about his daily routine and his work schedule. And he said something that stood out to me that I thought was very relatable for a lot of people. He said, I live by my inbox, which I thought was a very honest and interesting statement. He w...

You're listening to the Uppercase Life, where we work hard, play hard and chill hard. Also, I'm your host, Joseph Brewster.  I'm going to give you two words, and I want you to think of what comes to your mind when you hear them. The first word is engaged, and the second word is autopilot. If these two words were in a fight to the death in a duel, which one of them would you see as the villain and...

You're listening to the upper case life where we are actualizing our potential. I'm your host, Joseph Brewster. Now I have a confession to make that surprises people sometimes because of how passionate I am about productivity and about the efficient use of your time. I don't use to do lists I quit using to do lists years ago. And maybe you can relate with some of the experiences I've had with to d...

You're listening to the upper case life, where we are always in pursuit of the most useful truth. And I'm your host, Joseph Brewster.  Buckle up, because today we're going to talk about something big, something I think is potentially life changing if you can grasp it and practice it. In the 2015 Journal of Experimental Psychology, there was a paper published called Knowledge Doesn't Protect Agains...

You're listening to the uppercase life where we are notable people doing notable things. I'm your host, Joseph Brewster. And today we are talking about notes. Notes.  Some of you out there are thinking, well, I already take notes. And others are thinking, I hate taking notes. But what I can tell you for a fact is that all of you have a notes app already. If you're listening to this, you have a not...

You're listening to the uppercase life where even when we procrastinate, we do it on purpose. I'm your host, Joseph Brewster.  I want to talk about procrastination today, but I've been putting it off for weeks. No, I'm just kidding. You know, procrastination is usually a negative word. It gets a bad rap and quite honestly, for good reason. A lot of times we associate procrastination with being laz...

You're listening to the Uppercase Life or we don't wait for greatness we created. And I'm your host, Joseph Brewster.  Some of you out there are listening to this right now and are in a state of feeling overwhelmed. And I'm going to define overwhelmed by the feeling that you are in over your head and you don't have the ability to rescue yourself in this moment. Overwhelmed comes from a nautical id...

You're listening to the uppercase life where we are doing our best to be doing our best. And I'm your host, Joseph Brewster.  You know, for a lot of what we do in life, there are definite start and end moments. And you have a task list. You check things off the projects. Eventually close and you shut everything down. But then there are some really long term endeavors. There are some big commitment...

What do you think of when I say the word amateur? There are a lot of connotations around the word. And actually, if you look up quotes about the word amateur, most of them are not positive. Most of them are critical. And usually amateur is contrasted against professional. But if you're anything like me, you may have a little bit of a perfectionist in you. And we really want to be professional. We...

If you're anything like me, you have a lot of decisions to make every day. And those decisions are of varying levels of importance. I think if you've been in this headspace of trying to improve yourself and be mindful about your time and about your choices, you've already run into some content telling you you have to be willing to say no. And I don't disagree with that. You do have to be willing t...

I want you to think for a minute about something that you would like to do but haven't been able to. Something that is important to you. Maybe some passion project that you have or an ambition that you felt, maybe a lifestyle change and you've thought of it. In fact, maybe you've thought of it a lot, but you haven't felt able to actually accomplish it yet. You've got the thing in your head. All ri...

You're listening to Uppercase Life, the show for people who want to live life all caps bold. And I'm your host Joseph Brewster. Owning our own time can really be a challenge. It's much easier to allow external demands to dictate your schedule, you know, to react rather than to act. Because as much as we say we want change and as much as we say we want to be our own boss and have control of our tim...

We talk about priorities. We talk about rearranging our priorities, figuring our priorities out. And we think we know what the word means. But do you? What if I told you you don't really have priorities? Let's talk about it. And, you know, let's start talking about it by talking about the word priority. It comes from the root word prior, which just means the next thing in line and the next thing i...