Category: Mind & Body
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Fear of Failure
Mate, You love this one, don’t you? The pre-emptive strike.You roll out the highlight reel of every stumble, every awkward silence, every plan that fizzled — just to stop me before I even start. Clever move. Paralysis disguised as protection. I get it. You’re trying to keep me safe. You think if I never try,…
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Letter 0 – Heads Up
Mate, Consider this fair warning.You’ve been at it long enough — talking over me, dragging me into spirals, second-guessing every move. Sometimes you’re useful (I’ll give you that), but mostly you’ve been a loud monkey at the wheel of my ship. That ends here. From now on, the terms change. You don’t get to captain.…
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The One Mind Problem
In the Netflix series 3 Body Problem, Will Downing undergoes a procedure to remove his brain from his cancer stricken body, put into a spacecraft, and launched into space. The idea was that it would remain cryogenically frozen until it made contact with the oncoming alien space fleet halfway on their journey to invade Earth…
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How to lose weight and get fit. Slowly
I wrote this sometime in 2015 and published it on HubPages. Checked again recently and it’s not there anymore, so here is a repost. Since writing this, I’ve done 2 more marathons, 2 more half marathons, 3 Half Ironman distance triathlons, gone on multi-day multi state rides and last year, climbed Mount Kinabalu. I hope…
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Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024
As I wind down on 2023, a question popped into my mind: what am I grateful for and what do I want for the future? So as I take stock of my wins and intentions, one of this is to start writing and perhaps even speaking. I’ve been quiet on here for 8 years. Most…