REALITY CHECK
Discover your divine purpose, heal your soul, and awaken to your highest calling.
Join Zachary Phillips on a journey towards living a more examined life with talks delving into the nature of reality, the search for meaning and the pursuit of happiness.
97: Real Self-Care Is Not What You Think It Is
Topic: Real self-care is more than just a ‘feel good’ activity, it involves taking action to improve yourself over the long term.
Book Chapter: ‘Limit Social Media & Screen Time’, ch 5.5 of How To Get Your Sh!t Together
96: At Least You Are Paid Well ...
Long hours, traffic and stress … at least you are paid well.
Every morning you are in a rush. Cringing at the shrill alarm, you relish the warmth for another second. The sheets are hugging you, the bed is soft. It is almost pleading with you to stay ...
In this episode I release part 1 of Wage Slave, and talk about how good pay can trap people in crappy jobs.
95: The Lag Between Taking Action & Actually Noticing Results
There is a lag between taking action to improve yourself (diet, exercise, meditation etc) and noticing the results of those actions.
Keep this in mind whenever you start a new positive habit. If you know that it will take a while to see any benefits. then you will persevere with it long enough to actually see those results.
94: My Morning Routine (& How You Can Make One Work For You!)
For me, sticking to a morning ritual is key, both for my mental health, but also for my productivity. In this episode I break down my morning, I talk about why I use a routine, as well as how you can implement one in your life.
My mornings in a nutshell:
- Wake at 6am
- Green tea with jasmine
- Meditate (40 mins)
- Black coffee
- Russian language lesson #1 (3 mins)
- Exercise (45 mins)
- Russian language lesson #2 (3 mins)
- Prioritise my day (3 mins)
- Respond to social (5 mins)
- Post on social (5 mins)
- Cold shower
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93: Meditation - The Lead Domino For Good Mental Health
If I could only choose one treatment option to manage my mental health, I would choose Mindfulness Meditation.
It is the lead domino for mental health. It will enhance your focus, clarity and ability to detach from negative thoughts.
92: Making The Impossible Possible - Then Remembering How To Do It Again
You have done the impossible, but it just doesn’t feel that special because it is a thing of the past. You have grown since then. The person that found it ‘impossible’ no longer exists. Thus it is increasingly easy to discount those accomplishments.
Try to remember how hard it was, and despite that difficulty, you persisted and succeeded any way.
Realise that this will happen again. What you think of as impossible, will (with time and effort) be overcome, and it too will become easy.
91: Who Is Worse Off? Is It Possible To Ever Tell?
How can you ever know if one person is worse off than another? Given that we all view the world through a subjective lens, this may be impossible. In this episode, I talk about how I approach this issue, and use it to help myself and others.
90: Are You A Wage Slave?
Do you work to live? Or live to work?
87% of people hate their job, to me this is sad, absurd and unnecessary.
In this podcast I Introduce my fourth book ‘Wage Slave’' and discuss how you can free yourself!
I also introduce my next skillshare course: Learn To Lucid Dream: 101