Concentration requires quiet. Quiet mind, quiet room, quiet heart. Get these three, and you can have concentration. Even fooling yourself that you have these three works, but it is never easy, and it requires patience. Ironically, becoming quiet requires patience. Patience with yourself, patience with others, patience with the world. Get this, and you can …
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This is normal. This is also normal. I tried this, and it felt normal, but it most definitely wasn’t normal. Yeah, although it’ll feel normal, that’s probably not going to be normal. What about this? I feel if more people did this, it could become normal. There aren’t enough people saying that’s normal. I think …
Why are you uniquely suited to produce and host this podcast? My identity as a non-Japanese Bilingual Yamabushi means that I have access to thousands of years’ worth of ancient knowledge and philosophy right in front of my eyes, coupled with the ability to portray that in native English. After a few years of translating, …
I’d rather be healthy and poor than not healthy and rich beyond my wildest dreams. Looking after yourself should be more important than any job, always. Whenever you’re out on a run, think of it as adding to your health. The same thing goes for when you eat. Always choose something healthy, health is wealth.
Even at the age of 31, I’m amazed how often I say these words to myself. Isn’t it amazing that after all this time, you still find a way to talk yourself out of the littlest things that when put together, become the biggest things? Being able to get past these seemingly little tasks must …
Day One: Task One, choose a title! Of course! Well, you don’t have to set anything in stone, they ask for a few options for working titles, with a short description on what the show will be about. Luckily we can change this anytime throughout the course 🙂 We have to imagine who the target …
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My blog settings meant that you could only see the three most recent posts, and three random posts. I changed it so you can go back further, but I’m wondering if this will be enough. I think I’ll make a recent posts page where you can see a whole lot at once, that might work …
Self-responsibility is really what it’s all about. When you’re in a group situation, you don’t have to do what the group chooses. Especially in teenage years, where it can be cool to do things just because your peers are doing so, you still gotta have self-responsibility. We act differently in group situations, and especially when …
We’ve all got to have some risk that we’re taking that has the potential to take off. It keeps you excited and motivated and keeps things interesting. Once your content, you lose motivation to proceed, so you’ve got to be working for something constantly. Taking a risk is a good way to do this, within …
I guess I should start with what it is, at least my impression of it, and why I joined up. First up, what is it? The Podcasting Fellowship is an online workshop, one of the Akimbo workshops initiated by Seth Godin. I believe it is a community-based way to start a podcast. Seth has authored …
