Where all of humanity's problems stem from

hey friend, it’s your friend: jack 👋. today we are going to talk about “taking quiet time”.

Recently I’ve ascended? to a new plain of conciseness? (i started meditating regularly) Anyways: I got rid of my belief that mediation is “not for me” - so today I want to share with you how life changing a simple 3 minute habit can be.

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I’ve been making a ton of progress on Curiosity Quench and my book “Consumption Control” :) and I’ve been logging it daily on my youtube channel. We hit over 8000 installs in now too 🥳

Taking quiet time

Taking quiet time is often referred to as meditation. This is a way to easily regain your focus. And focus is usually the lacking part of which you don’t have much of if you are stuck consuming. Our attention spans have been shot to s**t, and the best way to grow them stronger is by training them like we would train our muscles if we want them to grow.

Meditation is a word many people cringe at. Whatever negative associations you have with the word: lose them. They do you no good. I have labeled this writing “Taking quiet time” as this is what was told to me and got me to finally act upon building my attention span and focus muscles stronger.

If you want to stop consuming, a large help is having a longer attention span, so you can have time, and enough focus to do what matters to you when you figure that out.

Meditate for 3 minutes by closing your eyes and focusing on your breath, you will get off track but just come back to your breath. Do it. Train the muscle.

Do you want to be less distractible? Do you want to be more aware? Do you want to focus more on what really matters to you? Do you want to find out what really matters to you? Do you want to enjoy simple things again? Do you want to be less angry/sad/unhappy/anxious? Do you want to have more calmness and peace inside of yourself? Take some quiet time each day.At first this is a hard thing to do, our monkey brains are full of chatter and won’t shut up. The moment we close our eyes we have this thought of something we need to do: a person we need to message, an email we need to check… It’s hard to ignore the impulses that come, and it’s uncomfortable to sit in silence with nothing but your own thoughts.

I tried meditating many times, and thought I'd “failed” – “Am I doing this right?” I thought to myself. The truth is there is no wrong way to meditate. Sit in silence, watch your breath, if you end up lost in thought and catch yourself: then come back to the breath: repeat for 3 minutes -> 3 hours (whatever you wish). I used to dread this time with myself, “so boring”, but now it’s more peaceful. Now I look forward to time alone with my thoughts in a quiet space. Sitting with my eyes closed I see the world blossoming around me.

How can you add this habit to your life?

Do it in the morning when you wake up, or at night to help you fall asleep, do it whenever you can: and make it a habitual process. If you have a habit of brushing your teeth in the morning, then do it always after that, or if you have the habit of getting out of bed in the morning and then showering, do it in the shower! (The shower is often the time we accidentally fall into a meditation state anyways). Or do it after you get dressed… just connect it with another habit you already have ingrained into your life process, this makes it much easier to pick up as a habit. Look around and see all of the people who are living the most peacefully, they are all okay with sitting in a quiet room alone: they actually enjoy it immensely.

Meditation is something I’ve slowly opened up to over time, but the only way I ever was sold on it was after having the intense feeling of love and peace inside myself grow: all in a matter of just 5 minutes spent with my eyes closed. An uninspected mind is chaos, taking time to sort through your chaos brings you more peace, and peace is the ultimate goal. 

// Peace is the unconditional form of happiness. Happiness is what most of us aim for but it has too many conditions to satisfy in order to be sustained: making it unsustainable. You can not sustainably always be happy, but you can sustainably always be at peace.

— Thanks for reading my friend, I hope this was insightful/informative/entertaining. Take care, keep going, I love you.your friend, jack ♠️

Whenever you're up for it, there are 3 ways I can help you:

1. Curiosity Quench: Destroy your scroll —addiction— and get on a roll with the stuff that actually matters. (app)

2. Consumption Control: Learn how to control your consumption tendencies and get on a roll with the stuff that actually matters. (eBook)

3. You Were Built To Create Cool S**t : Click to start. (book)

4. Deep work focus timer: a simple timer that gets you locked in and feeling good about it.