by Austin Alexander | Mar 4, 2016 | Action, Anxiety, Habit, healthy, patience, self-esteem, service, Vice
Mental obsession is a tricky thing. I had an acting teacher once say, “if you were driving to Chicago you wouldn’t keep saying over and over every few minutes on the drive there ‘I’m going to Chicago.’, ‘I’m on my way to...
by Austin Alexander | Jan 24, 2016 | Action, Anxiety, body, Fear, healthy, humanity, Risks, Safety, Scary, service
We all get those “bad feelings” about certain situations, people, decisions, establishments, and ideas. For me personally, I have those intuitive thoughts and they are sometimes spot on and sometimes WAY off. When they are way off, it’s most commonly...
by Austin Alexander | Jan 18, 2016 | Anxiety, Ego, faith, Fear, Habit, healthy, Life, meaning, Preparation, Pursuits, Rest, Scary, self-esteem, service, unhealthy
If you don’t like foul language STOP HERE…. Over the past month, I have been having a serious recurring case of the “Fuck It”‘s. And, if you’re wondering, I almost had a case crop up for the blog post today. But, Fuck it, I’m...
by Austin Alexander | Jan 9, 2016 | Action, faith, healthy, humanity, meaning, self, self-esteem, service, spirit, volunteer
I jokingly refer to this in my own life as selfish selflessness. If you’re not familiar with being of service to others or volunteering, you get so much more benefit out of it than you would imagine. It seems to me, through my experiences, that humans are born...