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Mindfulness Month: The 5 Ways I’m Removing Distractions & Getting Back to Work (Part 3)

April 30, 2016 No Comments

Step 4: Focus On Functionality Facebook, text messages, TheChive, The Awesomer, IWasteSoMuchTime.com, Youtube, Email, LinkedIn, Geek.com, io9.com, Twitter, Instagram. These are just some of my favorite distractions and they can very quickly turn my day into an entertaining but very unproductive experience. How can I possibly be expected to get anything done when there is an entire world of geeky, awesome, hilarious, entertaining content waiting at my fingertips at any given moment? Well unfortunately the reality is I can’t… If...

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Mindfulness Month: The 5 Ways I’m Removing Distractions & Getting Back to Work (Part 1)

April 29, 2016 No Comments

The Productivity Plan If you’re anything like me your biggest problem with productivity isn’t motivation; the biggest reason I don’t get anything done is because I’m either overloaded, distracted, unfocused or all 3. Besides battling constantly to try and put a dent in my endless lists of unfinished work and generally struggling with prioritization and time management (see GTD article) I am regularly fighting with personal distractions and a lack of focus. After researching for the last few weeks and...

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Mindfulness Month: How I Completely Misjudged Yoga and Learned to Find Balance in the Chaos

April 25, 2016 No Comments

Pretentious attitudes, long hair, man buns, Lulu Lemon, tight pants, overly bendy, over complicated, stretching disguised as a workout. This was basically my general perception of Yoga and those doing Yoga up to the beginning of this month. Was it a bit (quite) prejudgemental? Well, ya, but I’m not sure this was totally my fault. My only experiences with Yoga to date hadn’t really been the most positive. Besides my one-off encounters with the friendly but strange hippyish types practicing their...

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Drew’s Mindfulness Challenge: Getting Back To Great

April 19, 2016 No Comments

Work/Life Chaos Just so you all understand I am pretty great at completely underestimating life challenges (which also makes for entertaining stories I guess). My name is Drew Vincent, I’m a 30 year old single guy with a great job and very full life. I recently bought a house this last September, finally moved in this December and since then have done nothing but project after project. I figured I could do most of the work in a few weeks, wrap...

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Mindfulness Month: Time to Switch Off Autopilot, Eliminate Distractions, & Become More Present

April 15, 2016 No Comments

Have you ever gotten in your car, driven somewhere and then realized upon arrival that you have no recollection of the trip over? How about checking the clock at work and realizing ‘holy crap, it’s already 2:30, where did my day disappear to?’ Or how about getting into an argument and then suddenly stopping to ask yourself, ‘how did we get here?’ This happened to me all the time, I would float through my days doing my best to steer my life in the...

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Mindfulness Month: Isn’t Meditation Just For Hippies?

April 11, 2016 No Comments

I never in a 100 years thought that I would ever try meditation It’s not that I’m a closed off person, actually far from it, but meditation just seemed hokey and kind of far fetched. The only people I knew that meditated were long haired hippies and equally long haired (but probably in a man bun) yoga instructors and I didn’t exactly identify with either of them. Besides, I always felt like I was a pretty intelligent and self aware person and...

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What the heck is a Mindfulness Month and Why You Should Take One Too

April 7, 2016 No Comments

‘Okay what do I have to do today? I should send some emails, finish that excel spreadsheet, call a few clients, make a Facebook post, find some images that look like clouds, and remember to message my girlfriend to make sure we’re still on for dinner at our friends house tonight. Maybe I’ll start with that Facebook post. Oh hey! Looks like Shelby had her baby. I should probably comment on that or she’ll think I’m a dick. Might as well check...

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Scale My Life Q1 Review: As Stress Builds, Do I Pivot Or Stay The Course

April 3, 2016 No Comments

3 months into my journey to ‘scale my life’ It was Saturday morning and I was sitting out on my deck drinking coffee on what looked to possibly be the nicest day of the year (so far). Although the weather and ambience were more than relaxing I found myself lost in thought trying to evaluate my life. I had just completed 3 of the most challenging and rewarding months in recent memory but the question that kept spinning around in my head...

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Budget Challenge Reflect: What I’ve Learned Living On $250

April 1, 2016 No Comments

What have I learned living on $250 for a month? I’ve been asked this a few times over the course of my challenge and each week the answer seems to be different. I guess that’s kind of the best part of doing these challenges and writing this blog, I’m always progressively learning and changing my understanding of the world I’m exploring that month. Just thinking about the growth and development I’ve gained over the course of this month makes me believe that...

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Budget Challenge: How Biking Slowed Down My Life For The Better

March 30, 2016 No Comments

First off I’ve always been a car guy. Not a car guy in the sense that I could take one apart and have any idea how to put it back together again (not my forte at all) but a car guy in the sense that I love driving my car. I am the proud owner of an Octane Blue 2010 Mitsubishi Lancer that I bought brand new off the lot (my first new car). I’ve put over 160,000kms of road trips...