Switching Up Your Workspace to Unlock New Thoughts/Ideas

In your eyes, what’s more important for your work or creative output? Is it a dedicated workspace? Is it based on the way you feel? Let’s say you wake up hella lethargic. Are you fucked for the rest of the day, doomed by the lack of sleep and unable to think clearly? Or perhaps your office chair has an annoying creaking noise that the most powerful WD-40 couldn’t fix?

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TTS Episode 36: Living Your Best Life with Basil Jackson

Graham and Barry exchange their usual pleasantries (0:00-31:18) before welcoming Basil Jackson to the table (31:34-1:08:58). Bas is a Senior Marketing Associate at Baker Tilly and runs a pod of his own called So I Was Thinking: A Podcast about Living Your Best Life. Discussion points include the importance of paying it forward, establishing yourself in a new city, leaving a legacy, and much more. Wise words from a great dude.


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Podcast, [Pod 2]Graham Olney
The Irony Of Internet "Presence"

How often do you look at your story views? Or count the likes on your latest post? Even covet fits on the street? We are creatures of comparison and that has only been exacerbated by the advent of social media. Even without being in the “public eye” like some of the internet’s biggest stars, we’re all on display one way or another. It’s your approach and how you choose to view it that will lead to clarity.

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Deep Hauuuuuu55555

For me, in the early days, house & trance were used primarily as uplifters. I would throw on a playlist chalk-full of bangers to prepare to train or before a race. I’d queue some shit up when I was 16/17 at a party to rally the troops. It was a relationship fueled with chaotic energy. As time progressed, that changed tremendously.

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Monthly Mindset, April 2021: Consistency

We spend a considerable amount of time pondering ways to break ourselves from routine. Spontaneity is often seen as the root of happiness, as if the world is aligning and purely random acts of kindness, care, or excitement mean that we are truly riding the wave. Could we be more intentional about these things instead of leaving them up to chance? What if instead of the dreaded “routine”, we set positive reinforcers in place to perpetuate good habits and productivity?

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Student Leadership Is Crucial To The Health Of The University, Especially In A Pandemic

If I told you this past year has been tough, I would not be telling you anything you did not already know. What seems to save us through these times are our peers. Every day you encounter these people and, although you may know their name, you may not know who they are. Who they are transcends the classroom (or the zoom room) and lies at the heart of the person.

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Self-Perception

Yeah I’m losing my hair. Slowly, but surely. It’s not like clumps of it are falling out in the shower, but as someone who spends a considerable amount of time looking at themself in the mirror, it’s safe to say the prophecy will be fulfilled. It was written in stone in ancient Mesopotamia: most men will experience some form of hair loss, and there’s no escaping it. Could it all be a matter of perspective?

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What Is You Doing, Sketchball?

Welp, it’s time to talk about something I’m NOT so great at: managing anxiety. Past generations would have just rubbed some dirt into it, maybe went and played stickball in the backyard and beat up the foreign kid. Our generation took a much different approach. One of acceptance, awareness, and transparency (probably some other things, too). Bringing these things to light has created a culture of change, but it has also led to some unintentional blunders as well.

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Tempers Flared

Big time IMO: anger is a projection of some internal shit. It could be something irking you or something you haven’t worked through to completion. Those parasitic thoughts refusing to evaporate without the proper attention. Digging deep and reflecting to conquer these demons is no small task.

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Bubble Burst

I’ve been in many different environments and living situations over the last year, but if there’s one commonality between all of them, it’s that I rarely interact with strangers anymore. You don’t realize how good something is until you don’t have it, and as it turns out, surrounding yourself with people you don’t know is incredibly meditative and borderline crucial.

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