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Five Steps: Stop Smartphone Addiction

This post will help you reclaim wasted time and stop distraction by overcoming your smartphone’s addictive grip with five simple steps. The steps will require a bit of courage to start and only a sprinkle of will power once implemented. So, go forth, break the cycle of smartphone addiction, and reclaim your life.

Toxic Friends Who Fly Under the Radar: A Complete Guide

By James Razko

Toxic friends are usually considered to be people who put you down, aren’t there for you, and bring drama to your life. However, there is another kind of toxic friendship that is hard to spot and in the long run will harm you just as much or more than the usual suspect. These kind of friends are poisoning you slowly over time.

11 Tips to Improve Sleep Quality: How Light Affects Sleep

By James Razko

In this article you will learn:

11 actionable tips to improve sleep quality instantly.
how a lack of sleep is harming you,
why you should stop using an alarm,
how light affects sleep quality, and
How to use light to sleep better.

Psychological Safety for Creative Minds

By James Razko

Research shows that psychological safety in the workplace is essential to foster creativity, learning, and innovation. For this reason, mega innovators like Google, make sure their high performing teams have what is known as a psychological safety net. And, Regardless if you work in a group, you should have one too.

Meditation and Creativity: What Style of Meditation is Best

By James Razko

Can meditation be used to boost creativity?

You’ve probably already guessed the answer to the rhetorical question above, but first, let’s go over what we know meditation already does. Meditation reduces stress, helps control anxiety, increases self-awareness, sharpens attention, improves sleep, decrease blood pressure, and helps manage pain. And, according to several studies like this one, one form of meditation also increases creativity.

Importantly, research also shows you do not need to be an experienced meditator to reap the creative rewards.

Reach Your Full Potential and Conquer Fear: Wipe the Mirror to a More Actualized Self

By James Razko

We all dream of becoming our best self, however, only a few dare to reach their full potential. In positive psychology, this is known as self-actualization. It is the peak of one person’s human development. When you are fully actualized, you are entirely human and completely alive.

Why Does Surfing Instagram and Mediation Feel the Same:Who’s Driving my Consciousness Bus?

By James Razko

Lately, I’ve been considering what it means to be present.

When meditating, this answer seems clear. Being present is not being lost in thought, but being in the here and now. It’s a special kind of focus, where our brain’s default mode network shuts off, and we enter a state of flow. I do my best work in these moments, and often it brings a welcomed feeling of contentment.

Also, and oddly, when on social media and in particular Instagram, I often feel a very similar experience. I can get lost looking at just about anything oddly-satisfying, especially (for reasons unknown to me) people fishing. I don’t fish…

The Memos

Five Steps: Stop Smartphone Addiction

Toxic Friends Who Fly Under the Radar: A Complete Guide

11 Tips to Improve Sleep Quality: How Light Affects Sleep

Psychological Safety for Creative Minds

Meditation and Creativity: What Style of Meditation is Best

Can meditation be used to boost creativity?

Reach Your Full Potential and Conquer Fear: Wipe the Mirror to a More Actualized Self

Why Does Surfing Instagram and Mediation Feel the Same:Who’s Driving my Consciousness Bus?

How to Use Feedback to be More Self-Aware: Becoming a Truth Shaman

Embracing a Growth Mindset: You are Plastic, Not Stone

How to Craft Playlists to Induce Flow and Enhance Performance