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Hi gang, I’ve been spending a lot of time and energy looking for a new car so this article I wrote for The Weave is pretty appropriate for that. Also, I’ve been getting back into meditation and these issues have all combined into this article. As always, here is the first section and I hope you had over to The Weave to get the full article, including an audio version.


It’s easy to become despondent about prospects and prosperity. The major crises that prevail could feel overwhelming and compounding: business and people suffering from COVID, the climate crisis, the mental health epidemic and increasing social inequalities are enough to drain anyone’s ability to be productive. However, I have tried many tactics and I’ll like to share one of them here.

Some years ago I decided to beat my addiction to social media scrolling. Of course, I still use it to a degree but I no longer spend hours looking at the lives of others, partly because it was feeding my anxieties about the state of the world. However removing the negative stimulus is only part of the equation, I needed to replace it with positive habits and mindsets.

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