Box Breathing

Box breathing is a simple technique that a person can do anywhere, including at a work desk or in a cafe. It is called box breathing to encourage people to think about a box as they do it.

Favored by Navy SEALs, this technique involves structured breathing that anyone can practice to enhance mental clarity and emotional wellbeing.

Also known as "square breathing" or "four-square breathing," this controlled breathing practice is based on pranayama, an Ayurvedic form of breathwork that originated in India. Box breathing is known for improving physiological responses, helping to calm the mind, and bringing focus.

Box breathing stands out due to its simplicity and accessibility. Unlike some techniques that may require special equipment or environments, box breathing can be practiced anywhere, anytime.

Box breathing involves four basic steps, each lasting 4 seconds:

1. Breathing in

2. Holding the breath

3. Breathing out

4. Holding the breath

Ideally, a person should repeat the three steps for 4 minutes, or until calm returns.

You Have to Make Hay while the Sun Shines

 Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them – Ann Landers.

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There’s a difference between interest and commitment. 

When you’re interested in doing something, you do it only when it’s convenient. 

When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses; only results.

Choose to be Focused

If you want to make great strides and achieve a truly extraordinary life, you need to reinvest your free time into learning new skills, putting in the work, and being productive.

Hyper-focused mental efforts help to make fast progress. 

It won’t last forever, but you need to put in the time now, so later you can have the life you want.

Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles – Robert Brault.

 

Be brave to suck at something new.

Six months of focus and hard work can put you 5 years ahead in life. Don’t underestimate the power of consistency and desire.

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Many of us fear boredom – even the faintest whiff of boredom sends us scurrying right back to the game.

Arthur Schopenhauer said that willing itself is never fulfilled - as soon as one wish is satisfied, another appears. Though there may be some very brief respite, some fleeting period of satiation, it is immediately transformed into boredom.

Every human life is tossed backward and forward between pain and boredom.

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2018

Happy New Year to everyone who has ever read this blog. If any post or part of it has ever helped you in any way then I'm happy. Wishing you health, happiness and prosperity in 2018. I'll continue to try to create some posts moving forward, but I feel this year is going to be my most industrious one so far. New year, new me and all that jazz.






"A dream written down with a date becomes a goal. A goal broken down into steps becomes a plan. A plan backed by action makes your dreams come true" ~ Greg Reid

Little by little, a little becomes a lot...I hope

The grind to get to where I want to be is utterly relentless. Laziness may pay off now, but hard work has a future. I think I need to subscribe more to the adage of "enjoying the journey", and make the goal secondary. Hard though.

 

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