Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

I’m like you. I say with confidence, “I can multi-task”. Because yes, I can walk and talk at the same time, I can scroll Instagram while eating cereal, and I can run four businesses at once. Those things may be true, but I can’t do them well. I can walk and talk at the same…

I thought I was exempt. I never thought all the posts and tweets would ring true of me. I didn’t know the warning signs or ways to avoid it, but I was still certain I would be an exception. I was aware of people who were diagnosed with clinical depression or who were living with emotional depression,…

I’m all for people earning a living doing work they enjoy, but if you go to a job you love and come home and look in the mirror at a person you can’t stand, you aren’t doing anyone any favors. I’m also all for love, but you can only accept the amount of love you think…

If you could place every word you’ve spoken and every action you’ve taken into one of two boxes, fear or love, which box would have the most? The professionals who study minds and human behavior say the emotional basis for all thoughts and actions are either fear or love. That’s it. They say those are…

You’re a creative person with a giving heart and big dreams. You want to be happy and successful, give back to others, and leave a legacy for your children and grandchildren. But, you don’t even know how to stay focused long enough to complete one task or check off one goal, let alone a life’s worth. Focus is a…

Before a book begins the author will include a prologue before chapter 1. The prologue is a short section that provides background information or additional information that helps you understand the upcoming story and/or characters better. Some things were determined for you before you were born. You didn’t get to choose your physical features, whom your…

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Today is World Mental Health Day. Positive conversation around mental health helps further diminish the stigma, fears, and embarrassment that surround mental health. The conversation around being real, speaking up, and risking vulnerability is a real thing, and I’m here for it! When I was growing up, mental health was a term reserved for people…

In my childhood education classes, one of the phrases that showed up in just about every course was “Process over Product”. That saying means no matter what you’re teaching your student to do, what was is most important was the process involved and not the outcome (the product). That collection of terrible pictures from art class that…

I’m excited to share with you that Monday, October 3rd 2016 will be the official relaunch of the Launch Young Adults website. For years now I’ve blogged, taught, mentored, written newsletters, created videos, and used social media to encourage, inspire and motivate ambitious young adults. I felt called to this work after 7 years of…

When you were little the only thing you were good at sharing, was your germs. You had to learn to share your things. When your parents’ friends came over with their kids, you were encouraged to let their kids play with your toys. In exchange, you’d be able to play with their toys when you…

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Episode 53 of the seanwes podcast was my first podcast. Ever. I consumed it all and freeloaded until I was told that I was a freeloader. I paid for a one-month membership (to the seanwes community) and didn’t use it. Mistake#1 In 2012 I “overlapped”, before doing so had a name. I worked a full-time job (that didn’t exhaust…

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Ambitious young adults desire to help. Generation Z, iGen, Millenials, are said to be people who don’t want to work hard, and who are lazy. That hasn’t been my experience. Every young adult I’ve worked with has two things in common: A personal goal for themselves, which they’re willing to work hard to reach. A…

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I sat at the head of two, rectangle shaped tables, pushed together end-to-end, and listened to my class talk. There had to be 7 different conversations going on at once, and yet, I heard nothing. No, I hadn’t gone deaf- my mind, amidst an epiphany, had muted the noise in the room to allow me…