The Round Year
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Do What Matters
Every time you put effort and energy into an task, ask yourself: ‘What will this accomplish?’It doesn’t make much difference whether your endeavor was useful, financially rewarding or simply meant to…
Protecting Your Peace
We waste untold amounts of time and energy on things of no consequence. We don’t see that in the present, as the situations always present themselves as urgent, critical, and dire.Very few tasks are…
Voices of the Past
Who are we, without even knowing it? How many people speak with our voices, think with our minds, quietly guide our beliefs and our actions?If we dig a little deeper into our identity, we’re likely…
Action and Reaction
In physics, every action has an equal and opposite reaction; the same applies to the realm of the mind.Every thought you nurture, especially profound beliefs and openly expressed convictions, will…
About Focus
Focus is the ability to ignore all signals save one. Your mental capacity stays unchanged, but it’s solely focused on one objective.Focus runs on emotions and excitement, not willpower. If you need…
Honoring the Gift
Those born with exceptional traits often remain unaware of them until adulthood, as we tend to take our own mental and physical capabilities for granted and assume everyone else is the same.What is a…
Child Themes
Intent is not precise, nor is it linear, it loosely aims for the direction you plan while bringing about many echoes, counterpoints, and unintended results.Their effects continue long after the flame…
Don’t Tell Me What I Think
Maintaining control over your mind when the latter is challenged in the battle of influences, inducements and restrictions we call daily life is a critical survival skill.People fight to win this…
Our Inner Worlds
Where are you right now?You may think you are at home, tending to mundane activities, but part of you is still at work, unable to let go of the problem you’re trying to solve, at the beach, dreaming…
Earning It
Understanding is a tough mistress who makes you deserve her favor: it demands focus, effort, humility, time and patience.Whether gained through years of painstaking trial and error or learned from…
Reality Talks Back
We call them omens, signs, kismet, synchronicities, and they simultaneously hearten and distress us, because they dismantle our illusion reality is random.We call it God’s will and surrender to it,…
Here Be Dragons
Remember the old maps with boundaries beyond which anything could happen? They always said here be dragons, even in the middle of the ocean.When we try to think past the limits of our understanding,…
Yes, No, Maybe
Life works in probabilities. Everything is a gradient of maybe between yes and no. Since nothing is impossible, and nothing is absolute, life plans only make sense in broad strokes, and obsessing…
Living Ritual
What is a ritual? Any activity which carries or can carry symbolic meaning.Rituals appeal to our desire for recognizable patterns, our need to place ourselves into a familiar frame of reference that…
Ineffable Experiences
The inability to share ineffable experiences is a limitation of our human condition, which makes us feel helpless and sublime at the same time. These moments are by definition impossible to put into…
The Round Year
The round year is an ideal that got lost in our modern experience of time, but which is so deeply embedded in old spiritual systems, it often goes unquestioned.It is a simple concept, really. We…
Memory Libraries
People picture their memory as a large body of water in which they’re immersed, one which challenges their sense of control, as they struggle to swim against its currents, or allows them the…
Whose Mind Is It Anyway?
Whose thoughts run your head? That is a strange question. We take for granted we are the ones who think our thoughts, when in fact they are only in part our production, if at all. This article is a…
Power and Will
There are truly powerful forces at work in our universe, forces so awe-inspiring our minds can’t comprehend them: giant black holes of near infinite gravity, invisible waves that propagate through…
The Power of Emotions
Once upon a time, emotions were the key to our survival. They are fast, much faster than thoughts, and can assess a situation at lightning speed, before our rational analysis, before our senses even;…
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The Round Year has published 27 episodes since October 2024, covering topics in Personal Journals, Philosophy.
The Round Year is currently dormant with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 3m.
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