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The Power of New Is Now-It's About Time

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Lake Tahoe October 2019 View this post on Instagram Pier Group A post shared by Ed Reif (@edreif) on May 7, 2020 at 1:32am PDT As we move from Clock Time to Pandemic Event time it seems like it has been one long day these past 90. Answering the question, When Will It End?, is a two prong answer-Medically and Socially-it WILL  end socially before medically- after all vacines take time. Meanwhile.... The Power of New has been usurped by The Power of Now... Greenwich, UK 00° 00' 00"" GMT, That obsession with clock time- London, July 2018 Nuku'alofa 2011 -- and The International Date Line where clock time begins means absolutely nothing in the NOW   and also in 'lockdown; mode" home in England as a landlubber.... Beachy Head, UK  May 2019  but when we  inhabited our own lives... Sarah I went around the world again in 2019, (with a few short deployments to Afghanasta...

Around The World In 80 Ships

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Karaoke Living Daring to Be Different in a Copycat World so I joined a ship I used to think traveling/working on ships was bad...but then I stopped thinking. I reached the threshold in 2009--where I compiled a video of  the blue ocean cruising I had done-as if my life flashed before my eyes- I am looking BACK  at some of my adventures, which were nothing more than bad planning! And looking FORWARD to the unexpected which is nothing lesss than letting  go of the past and creating  a more AMAZING future. When my life flashes before me, (2009-2011) I wanna make sure it is worth watching--- It might  look like the fast motion video BELOW: Santorini Onboard The Celebrity Soltace Having no education can be an economic death  sentence but a unique talent, grants you a global passport. Free to KNOW, GO and DO. Talent makes capital dance. I Sell my cleverness and buy bewilderment. The one is mere opinion, the other is intuition. I've found that ...

Old Dog-New Tricks

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How to learn anything-Zap your brain with electricity! With neurostimulation, could we tilt this balance such that people move from the death spiral to this virtuous cycle? Greetings from the user-friendly universe of  Halo Nueroscience/ Forget 10,000 hours ⚡ Develop muscle memory faster with Halo Sport — the brain stimulator for people who love playing music, working out, and getting the most out of every hour. Break the pattern of rumi action of the past and daydreaming about the future... The challange  that we’re trying to solve is, in a nutshell, the slowness of adult learning. Nobody has really ever asked this question, “Is this a solvable problem?” Our kids feel this virtuous cycle of putting in the effort where they just take off, and their body of knowledge grows. Where adults are the total opposite end of the spectrum: We try, try, try and we don’t get enough, and then we just quit. May your cortisol levels stay low, your dopamine levels high,...

United Kingdom-Time Millionaires

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What are you on? I'm on my bike again “All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” ―  Blaise Pascal,  Pensées Full Catastrophe Living  is a manual about using mindfullness to cope with , well, the exact situation we find ourselves in globally, THIS INTERNATIONAL PANDEMIC. It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself. Jon Kabat-Zinn".   Quarantine (Italian  quaranta giorn i 40 days) a Venitian seafarers practice of ships returning from strange lands--- It  began during the 14th century in an effort to protect coastal cities from plague epidemics. S hips arriving in Venice from infected ports were required to sit at anchor for 40 days before landing.  We have no choice but to sit alone quietly in our homes.... yet here in West Sussex, the National Health Service  encourages all of us to get a bit of fresh air and exercise. What a differen...