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All The Best(Un)Intended Consequences - Live Storytelling Part 2This week, we're sharing stories performed at our live storytelling night (Un)Intended Consequences last October with live music composed and performed by Matthew Forbes. Explore influential encounters, moments and ideas - and if you're eager for more, you can find three more stories in our 'Part I' Episode. Highly Strung - 'Neverland'Emily Suine and Oliver Durbidge are part of the lively puppeteering group HighlyStrung. Together, they tell a comical fantasy about the emotional waves of puberty.Along this whimsical journey, the dashing boy from Neverland becomes our guide2025-01-2830 min
Baha'i Spiritual Virtues3. Bedtime Stories of 'Abdu'l-Bahá - The Seat of Honour (MIGHTY)In this episode we read the story The Seat of Honour and talk about racism, racial unity and how deeds matter more than words.*I clumsily try to explain race to my children in this episode. Please have follow-up conversations with your children if they have questions or you feel things need to be explained in a different way. *Join us at bedtime as I read a short story about 'Abdu'l-Bahá, also known as The Master, to my two elementary school ages children. We are reading from the new book MIGHTY w...2021-11-1014 min
A Minx's Chronicle#38 | Sticking to The RoadWelcome back, my apologies for the delayed uploads, I do my best to explain in the episode. In this edition of AMC, we speak about how to maintain changes, a highly recurring yet essential theme of the podcast. Enjoy.
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Welcome back; this week is a continuation of the previous week’s entry; briefly, we touched on how and why to pay attention to the nudges of your subconscious. Please read the entry found here. We have all been there, we made a slew of changes to our lives, be it...2021-08-3109 min
A Minx's Chronicle#37 | How to Fall in Love with YourselfThis week is about practising discomfort and how doing so will make you fall in love with who you are.
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This week we delve into the strata of our minds; we will look at why we ignore specific thoughts and the beneficial reasons behind paying attention to particular nudges. What is the Subconscious Mind?
Firstly, we need to understand the role of the subconscious; it acts as a guide for our values and beliefs and often our actions. Assuming a birdseye view of the subconscious mind, we would be mistaken in t...2021-07-2407 min
A Minx's Chronicle#36 | Reminders on Preparedness & MindsetThis episode is more of a rant/discussion/musings. I speak about the importance of being prepared and what to do when you feel overwhelmed.
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My final semester begins next week, so I am not sure how to juggle AMC and the other responsibilities of my life. Still, I sit here thinking about a straightforward concept: preparation. How do I prepare myself for the final step of this particular journey?
My extensive hospitality career has taught me many things; arguably, the most critical lesson is preparing yourself an...2021-07-1407 min
A Minx's Chronicle#35 | How to Repair Damaged BondsA four-step framework on how to repair damaged relationships.
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Mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers and then there is you, the link between them all. How is that link? Are you happy with it? If yes, find another entry and read that because this one is for us, everyday folks.
Familial ties and bonds need to be nurtured like any other relationship; AMC argues that familial bonds are the most beautiful of all relationships because we are powerless in choosing our family. Therefore this entry focuses on repairing d...2021-06-3005 min
A Minx's Chronicle#34 | How to Get Back on The HorseThis episode will provide you with three practical and straightforward tips that will ease your climb back to the top because discipline is exhausting.
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Discipline is Exhausting.
Welcome back. I hope you have all been well.
I have experienced a significant drop in discipline; for the first time in over 24 weeks, I have purposefully forgotten to write the Snip for last week. What does this mean? Have I lost my motivational edge? Is this the first red flag that will signal my return to being laz...2021-06-2209 min
I Have No Idea What I'm DoingS06:E03 - "Everything Is Shopping"
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I Have No Idea What I'm Doing - NewS06:E03 - "Everything Is Shopping"Podcasting is shopping
This episode of I Have No Idea What I'm Doing is sponsored by:
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A Minx's Chronicle#33 | When Should I Take a Break?Understanding when to take a break is half the battle; this episode will give you two signs that you need to watch out for. Subscribe to the website and podcast to stay looped.
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We work, some harder than others, but we all work. Interestingly some of us are born to work while some live to recline; both are sup-optimum for a satisfying and fulfilling life. Hence the saying "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy", this ancient adage (the 1600s) tells us to introduce balance into our...2021-06-1606 min
A Minx's Chronicle#32 | How to Control Your AngerIn this 6 minute episode, AMC covers three ways that will allow you to control your anger and minimize those pesky outbursts from ruining your day. The Michael Caine example was found in his book called "Blowing the Bloody Doors Off".
Below is the entry from the AMC website, the link is below.
Anger. A dangerous yet useful emotion, anger is one reason for individual civil liberties, but there is a time and place for a delicate emotion like anger. This week, AMC will tackle the split second before your composure cracks.
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A Minx's Chronicle#31 | Why You Need to Stop Multitasking | It is good to be back.Welcome back to the only podcast recorded in the car. Don't fact check me on that.
In this episode, we touch on scientific and logical reasons why multitasking is the bane of our existence and why you need to stop!
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Stop Multitasking.
It is good to be back; I hope you have all had a relaxing break. Let us get back to work.
You have already gle...2021-06-0210 min
A Minx's Chronicle#30 | One Day at a Time, AMC will be back.This is a see you soon, not a goodbye. Make sure you're subscribed to the website so you stay abreast of all developments.
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A Minx's Chronicle#29 | Real "Friends" W/ MK Imbalanced PodcastWhat makes a friend a friend? When do I distance myself from a toxic friendship?
These important questions answered and more with MK from the Imbalanced Podcast.
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Life is funny sometimes. For example, why is it that those who are closest to us hurt us the most? Why does it need to be the person who I have known for 15 years? Why can it not be Liam from down the street? Another funny thing about life is that we re...2021-02-2144 min
A Minx's Chronicle#28 | The Curse of Hyper-ProductivityTo-do lists are great, but there are more important things.
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Ultra/Super/Hyper/Productive
There is a growing ultra/hyper-productive culture; people are doing more with more; it can be overwhelming. There are pros and cons to this rapidly growing subculture. This week's entry aims to elucidate the matter for those considering a lifestyle shift or are curious about society's obsession with productivity.
Hyper-productive individuals will continue to be praised and respected in today's modern society. The very fabric of our culture respects progress and g...2021-02-1609 min
A Minx's Chronicle#27 | Improve Your Small TalkTwo simple tips that will dramatically improve your small talk.
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IMPROVE YOUR SMALL-TALK SKILL
I am uniquely qualified to write on this topic, I have been in and out of the hospitality industry for close to ten years, if there is one thing I know how to do, it is how to make small talk.
The below can apply to any setting, a cafe, workplace, park; it does not matter.
STEP ONE
The basics are always first: you must ask how som...2021-02-0904 min
A Minx's Chronicle#26 | A Stronger PersonTo become resilient, we must come to rely on internal motivation.
An exciting announcement at the end of the episode.
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Do You Even Deserve it?
What a question.
We instantly know if we deserve something or not. A straightforward example would be someone on a diet which has a cheat day once a week, and this person rewards themself after a workout with some chocolate on a non-cheat day. They know they do not deserve that; in fact, they are breaking their promise t...2021-02-0107 min
A Minx's Chronicle#25 | Fix The Night4 things you can start doing today to improve the quality of your night routine.
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The Night & The Morning
The quality of every morning of your life is crucially reliant on the quality of the previous night. You will not wake up feeling refreshed and rested if you go to sleep at four in the morning. You will struggle to wake up early if you do not plan to wake up early the previous night. You must think ahead and prepare to wake up early, meaning that you...2021-01-2607 min
A Minx's Chronicle#24 | WHO are My Friends?This is the first instalment in a short series of episodes on the importance of cultivating the correct relationships/friendships. This episode is important because friends can be sources of inspiration or a source of bitterness and negativity.
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Togetherness
Updated: Jan 19
Spend a few minutes and picture the people whom you respect and appreciate. You might respect someone in your field who had paved the way for your ethnic background or an artist who had encapsulated the way you felt when you were depressed. Or, a...2021-01-1810 min
A Minx's Chronicle#23 | New Year Resolutions Suck.The first episode of 2021 is about incremental implementation & micro habits. These two concepts are important if you want to maintain or implement changes in your life.
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Mastery of anything takes practice, patience, and time.
Force yourself every single day to go through the motions that you want to inculcate in your life while being careful to not overload your body or mind by taking on too much.
After maintaining a specific micro-habit for an extended period, you can pile on another. Given that the mind ac...2021-01-1109 min
A Minx's Chronicle#22 | Start by Starting Small | Goodbye 2020, Hello 2021To bid farewell to the year, we learn about how to induce a sea change.
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Where Should You Begin?
How do you even begin to make changes in your life if you feel completely overwhelmed by the number of things that you want to change?
This question is difficult for a few reasons; the main reason would be: “Where do you start?”, do you start by organizing your debts? Do you start by fixing your car? Do you start by renovating your room?
Anothe...2020-12-2809 min
A Minx's Chronicle#21 | Fail SuccessfullyFailure is a prevailing undertone in life's major choices. This episode presents you with a better way of looking at this pervasive concept.
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Fail Successfully
Life offers us a set of choices every single day and when you 'zoom out' you will begin to see that life is nothing but a series of decisions and the quality of your life depends intrinsically on the outcome of those choices.
We can either get out of bed when we wake up, or stay in bed for a li...2020-12-2508 min
A Minx's Chronicle#20 | The Hype Train + Personal StoryATTN: The audio quality significantly improves after the two (2) minute mark.
This episode is a little out of the left-field because of its lack of structure, use it a general reminder, hopefully, you find Oliver's ambitions as amusing as he did.
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Note: This was written in March 2020.
When you are consistent with a new habit, you must reward yourself. Imagine you are the boss of yourself. Order yourself to go to the kitchen and do a few dishes and then tell yourself that if you do t...2020-12-1511 min
A Minx's Chronicle#19 | How to Stay on Your GrindA logical& candid breakdown on how to remain steadfast on your path and sticking to your promises.
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Firstly, you must have the self-awareness to understand and realize when you are performing a bad habit. You cannot begin to fix something that you do not know is broken. This self-awareness is incredibly powerful if you can develop it to the point where you catch your thought process before you perform a bad habit. Some examples of bad habits are staying in bed after you wake up for a prolonged period f...2020-12-0810 min
A Minx's Chronicle#18 | Scheduling (How & Why)This episode covers scheduling, a high-performance habit and a tool to simplify your life. The objective of this episode is 'de-daunt' the whole topic.
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The Schedule
Scheduling and time blocking is a detailed art form, and it is incredibly underrated. It is thanks to God and my schedule that my days are so smooth and productive.
When someone looks at my calendar, they become overwhelmed by the sheer density; however, upon further inspection, they would realize that my schedule is primarily composed of daily recurring e...2020-12-0111 min
A Minx's Chronicle#17 | How to Keep Pushing ForwardYou will learn practical and actionable things that you can start doing today to help you to improve your effort and focus levels.
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The following entry will resonate deeply with those who are disciplined.
If you are interested in increasing your discipline, please read the other entries.
You should understand by now that discipline underpins all actions aimed towards accomplishing your goals and therefore is critical to those wanting to achieve more.
I define momentum in this context as your ability to maintain a...2020-11-2407 min
A Minx's Chronicle#16 | Mindset - A Simple GuideThis episode demystifies the whole mindset conversation. You also learn how to accomplish your goals.
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Free Throws & Mindset
Dr Biasiotto, from the University of Chicago, organized a study where he had three groups of people: A, B, C. He instructed each member in the group to shoot free throws a total of ten times. After they completed this simple task, Dr Biassiotto asked group A to practice in a basketball court every day for a month and to return upon completion. He then instructed Group B t...2020-11-1711 min
A Minx's Chronicle#15 | How to Reduce Your Phone TimeThree practical tips to help you peel away from the black mirror.
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How to Reduce Your Phone Time
We are all guilty of scrolling aimlessly and endlessly.
I will give you three straightforward ways to minimize your phone usage.
The benefits of having a cell phone are not to be underestimated, boiled down, your phone is your link to the world and your loved ones. However, we often become so engrossed with the black mirror that we lose track of time. When we re...2020-11-1007 min
A Minx's Chronicle#14 | How to Let Go & Move On4 proven ways to stop negative thinking loops & the link between destiny and free will.
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I believe that everything in my life has been predetermined and predestined before the beginning of time.
This concept in and of itself is a slippery slope. Because we all possess a measure of free will, we can do what we want when we want and how we want—within reason.
In the Islamic tradition, a man is speaking to a scholar about determinism and free will.
He asks th...2020-11-0305 min
A Minx's Chronicle#13 | "EGO!…How Do I Defeat You?"Ego is a seemingly inconspicuous aspect of our lives that can potentially stunt our growth permanently.
How can we prevent this?
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How to defeat Your Ego
Your Ego will challenge you when you think about making changes in your life, especially if those changes are coming from someone whom you do not respect.
Ego can conflate your current state and convince you that you are fine where you are in this present moment, Ego can also negatively affect the relationships you hold. Imagine tha...2020-10-2709 min
A Minx's Chronicle#12 | The Balance - Kindness & StrictnessAttaining discipline becomes easier when you understand the balance between kindness and strictness.
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Kindness and Strictness
There is a prolific saying in the Islamic tradition: Tie your camel before you place your faith in God.
What does this mean?
We are strongly encouraged to put our faith and trust in God, and we are taught that we will be rewarded in the afterlife for doing so; however, this becomes moot and useless if we do not take the necessary precautions and steps needed to...2020-10-2009 min
A Minx's Chronicle#11 | The Best Morning Habit of All TimeThe best habit of all time is exercise; we also touch on Coffee.
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We can all identify with and relate to feeling lethargic and grumpy when we wake up.
I would argue that it is this very combination of emotion is the reason for many of us failing to exercise when we wake up early in the morning, what if I told you that if you were to exercise in the morning that grumpy and lethargic feeling will disappear and satisfaction and contentment will replace them?
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A Minx's Chronicle#10 | Same results? Attack Your Space.This episode is important because we usually overlook the simple things when trying to make changes in our life.
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Your Space and You
Consistency inextricably links to discipline.
Discipline is your ability to do something that you do not want to do. Consistency is doing something that you do not necessarily want to do but doing it regardless and doing it repeatedly.
There is an adage from the genius Albert Einstein, and he says that insanity is going through life, achieving comparable r...2020-10-0609 min
A Minx's Chronicle#9 | COVID ain't got NOTHING on YOU.Part 2 of How to Be a Positive Person.
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YOU AND COVID
I can appreciate and understand that the current pandemic is to blame for the majority of these negative lifestyle choices that I see around me. Nonetheless, you cannot allow circumstances that are out of your control to derail your life.
You are permitted and expected to undergo some adverse side effects because of these current circumstances, but it has been over five months, that is almost half the year! How long can you allow...2020-09-2908 min
A Minx's Chronicle#8 | How to Be a Positive PersonPractical and easy methods to help you be a positive person and maintain positivity- all in under 8 minutes.
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The world has been plunged further into turmoil after a huge explosion destroyed a massive portion of Beirut, Lebanon. Residents flooded the internet with graphic videos and images showing the two blasts; the first one was relatively small in comparison to the second one, absolutely devasting. A political representative was speaking to a reporter while they were amidst the wreckage, and after telling the reporter that the carnage surrounding them is a...2020-09-2207 min
A Minx's Chronicle#7 | How to Delay GratificationIn this episode, you learn how to delay gratification; a trait that is proven to increase your chances of attaining success.
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Present and future 'you'
Today I want to speak about looking after yourself.
I am not talking about face masks and Epsom salt baths (although those have their importance), I am speaking about your inherent awareness and understanding that your actions and thoughts in the present have a direct impact on your future.
If you were to split yourself i...2020-09-1507 min
A Minx's Chronicle#6 | How to Defeat Your Negative ThoughtsOliver's Instagram
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It boiled down to putting my life in order, I can see the paradox there, because putting your life in order is a process within a process within a more critical process, so you cannot ‘boil down’ a possible solution to putting your life in order. However, that is the truth.
It started with me wanting to make a change because I knew that my then-current state was inadequate for the ambitions that I had set in place for myself. Therefore, I needed to change.
My thoughts were...2020-09-0807 min
A Minx's Chronicle#5 | How to Establish a Consistent Sleeping Routine.On the fifth instalment of the AMC podcast, Oliver tells you why you should establish a consistent sleeping routine, and he also gives you a practical and easy method to wake up and go to sleep on time every single day, check out the AMC website for more on how to improve your self-discipline.
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Given that you have the inherent desire to change and the understanding that your current self is inadequate in its knowledge, motivation and discipline, (among many other things), how do you then begin to change your...2020-09-0111 minA Minx's Chronicle#4 | How to stop procrastinating.In the fourth episode, Oliver gives you three reasons why we all procrastinate and a guaranteed way to stop.
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Procrastination & Desire.
Procrastination. A gentle word for a simple concept.
Procrastination is another way of saying: "I do not have the discipline needed for this task, so I am going to put it off/most likely not even do it."
Everyone suffers from this, and technically there is nothing wrong with it.
The issue begins to pose a severe risk to your...2020-08-2509 min
A Minx's Chronicle#3 | Why Bother?In the third episode, Oliver speaks about why YOU should bother making changes in your life. He also introduces a key concept: The incremental implementation of micro-habits.
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Why should you even bother changing the way you do things?
Why should you bother with this whole 'self-help' thing?
What's the point?
Why expend precious and scarce effort establishing habits that 'can' improve your life when the alternative—leaving everything as is— is infinitely easier?
These are valid...2020-08-1805 minA Minx's Chronicle#2 | Motivation is BullshitIn the second episode, Oliver speaks about why this overly praised emotion is bullshit, and what you need to focus on instead. Follow Oliver on Instagram @olivermelbourne
Motivation and Discipline.
Two crucial and polar concepts.
Both are necessary for anyone who wants to implement change and develop new habits within their life.
So, what is the difference?
Motivation is the fleeting and short-term momentary push of emotion that surges within you and compels action before you are about to tackle a task that you don’t necessarily want to ad...2020-08-1403 min
A Minx's Chronicle#1 | The Goal is Self. The Curse is Self.In the first-ever instalment of AMC, Oliver speaks about your biggest enemy. You. He also speaks about what he did to wake up early every single day. Enjoy.
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The goal is self. The curse is self.
This is how I explain it: We all inherently understand that we can be more, we know that our current state is not constant because no matter who you are, you have set in place some trajectory for your own life.
We change, we develop, we g...2020-08-0708 min