This Is a Twitter Thread Written Using WordPress

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I didn’t know you could use your WordPress blog to write Twitter threads or convert your existing blog posts into threads.

I’ve been dabbling with threads recently, mostly using Hypefury or Typefully to compose them. I want to write more micro-essays and turn them into threads without overwhelming my Twitter feed.

I do sometimes find threads hard to follow. I know you can read them through a thread reader like Readwise, but that just adds another layer of complexity to the process.

Anyway, I also understand WordPress will pull your images and videos through with the thread. So let me test that out. Here is a photo I took on my walk in the fields today:

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Last thing, you can work the other way away around and import and unroll threads into WordPress and turn them into blog posts.

I’m curious to know what you think about threads and also, what do you think about the new Twitter Notes function for long-form writing that’s being rolled out?

While we’re at it, what do you think of the other Twitter tools like Spaces, Live video, and Twitter audio?

Or do you miss the simple days of 140 characters?

Here’s Why Your Actions and Behaviours need to be Congruent with Your Intentions

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This quote smacked me right between the eyes when I read it.

“We judge others by their actions, be we judge ourselves by our intentions.”

It’s a spin-off from a Steven Covey quote: “We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behaviour.”

Here’s why it caught my attention.

When we observe other people, we only see their actions and behaviours. We make assumptions about their intentions.

Our judgments, good or bad, about another person’s actions and behaviours are made from limited information.

Flip it around.

Before you take action, you know your intention. You have the internal context behind your actions and behaviours.

But other people observing you don’t. They make assumptions about the intentions behind your actions and behaviours.

How often do your actions and behaviours not represent your intentions?

For example, my intention was to do the dishes before my wife came home from work.

But I got caught up in answering an important email.

I had good intentions, but what my wife sees is no action, which could easily lead her to conclude, lazy git, I can’t believe he left these dishes here for me to do.

Don’t be so quick to judge another person’s actions and behaviours without knowing their intention. And don’t forget to consider if your actions and behaviours are congruent with your intentions.

Have you ever wondered what’s holding you back from achieving what you want?

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You can do three things to reprogram your subconscious mind to deliver better results.

Who’s doing the programming?

Unfortunately, we don’t always take active control of programming our subconscious minds. We allow other people, social media, the press, books, TV, movies, and authority figures to do the programming for us. We allow this to happen for several reasons:

– Lack of awareness

– It’s more efficient to let the subconscious mind run on autopilot.

– We don’t know how to program our subconscious mind

– We’ve been programmed to believe “programming the subconscious mind is a bunch of woo woo stuff, so don’t bother”

The good news is we can reprogram the subconscious mind to deliver better results. Here’s how…

Step 1 – Be clear about what you want

The clearer you are about what you want the better the results you’ll get. Bring the outcomes to life in your five senses by asking yourself:

“If I get this result, what will it look like, feel like, sound like, taste like, smell like to have it.”

Key point: focus on what you want, not what you don’t want. The subconscious mind will deliver what you focus on!

Step 2 – Be 100% committed to achieving the results

You have to banish fear, doubt, and disbelief from your mind. Eliminate negative self-talk. Face your fears, especially the fear of failure, which often keeps you from taking action.

Key point: Don’t have a Plan B! Having a Plan B weakens your resolve.

You won’t fully commit if you know you have an escape route. Not having a Plan B forces you to be more resourceful.

Step 3 – Open your mind to possibilities

Your conscious mind will fight you on this. It wants to use brute force, logic, and reason to produce results.

This often locks you into tunnel vision. But to get the best results, you need to keep your mind open.

Key point: Your subconscious mind is very good at spotting patterns and noticing connections between seemingly unrelated things.

A wave of possibilities exists if you don’t collapse the wave by closing your mind. Allow your subconscious mind to find solutions creatively.

Conclusion

If you follow these three steps, you can program your subconscious mind to help you achieve the results you want.

How’s your thinking?

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I’m currently testing out H5P, a free web app that allows you to create interactive content. The app was created to give freelance e-learning designers like me, an open source and free alternative to the pricey commercial e-learning authoring tools.

This is an interactive video I made with H5P. It’s a rough cut, so forgive me.

What can the mountain trail teach us about life?

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We all know the map is not the territory. It’s not until you get on the ground and see the terrain with your own eyes that a way forward can be planned in accordance with the sensory details around you at the time of departure. In this episode, I share a metaphor of the mountain trail and how it is like life.

A personal development and self-improvement playbook

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Ok, I finally pushed publish on my new learning and development project.

It’s a personal development and self-improvement program delivered in the form of a newsletter. Each issue consists of a microlearning module and links to additional resources to support the selected topic.

each week, the microlearning module will cover one of the 5 pillars of personal development – mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, and social.

This week’s microlearning module: cultivating gratitude using a technique called counterfactual thinking.

If, like me, you are incredibly passionate about personal development and self-improvement then consider subscribing (free).

My favourite Barefoot Doctor books

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The Barefoot Doctor aka Stephen Russell was a practitioner and teacher of Taoism, its medicine, philosophy, meditation practices, and martial arts and manifesting system, or wu wei. I first came across his work in a small bookshop tucked away in the Scottish Highlands. It was his informal, wayward writing style and approach to Taoism that caught my attention. He’s written over 30 books. Here are my favourite:

  1. Barefoot Doctor’s Handbook for the Urban Warrior: Spiritual Survival Guide

2. Return of the Urban Warrior: High-Speed Spirituality For People on the Run

3. Barefoot Doctor’s Handbook for Heroes: Spiritual Guide to Fame and Fortune

4. Pure: The Keys To Your Supernature

Getting back in the saddle

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Dave Winer shared a tweet yesterday that got me thinking about why I should dust off the soulcruzer blog and start writing here again. The tweet is a link to Adam Singer’s substack newsletter.

Blogging in its true form is a great place to work out your thinking, by thinking out loud. For me, it’s a discipline that I blow hot and cold on. My cop-out excuse, of course, is time. Of all the other projects I working on – microlearning videos, a new personal development newsletter, audio blogging, plus the black hole that is social media – where will I find the time to blog consistently?

I’m going to have to figure out a way to get it into my workflow. With all of the tools I have at my disposal, this shouldn’t be hard. It’s a discipline and habit thing for sure, and if it’s truly important to me, I’ll find the time to do it.

I’ve started releasing a new micro-learning video short three times a week (Mon, Wed, Fri). I’m trying to be more purposeful in my social media posting. I want to add some kind of value to people’s feeds.

In today’s short, I talk about an old favorite of mine – getting permission to act:

I’ve been spreading these shorts across the Internet riding the video short trend that TikTok spawned. I’ve been posting on TikTok, Instagram Reels, Youtube Shorts, and Linkedin. It’s funny how varied the engagement is on the same video posted natively to different platforms. Linkedin appears to be the most consistent with views and ‘likes’ followed by Instagram Reels, Tiktok, and pulling up the rear with dismal performance is Youtube Shorts. The range looks like this: The highest viewed video goes to LinkedIn 2,764 and the lowest goes to Youtube at 0.

Tomorrow, I’m planning to officially launch my new personal development newsletter. I’m taking a different approach to this one. Instead of writing, I’m creating either a micro-lesson or a reflection exercise that will cover one of the 5-pillars of personal development (mental development, social development, spiritual development, emotional development, and physical development). People can sign up for it here. I’ll be posting a new micro-lesson every Tuesday and Thursday.

Another thing I’ve been doing on Twitter is posting a Today’s 5 Tracks post. I might as well include those here too:

Today’s 5 Tracks

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I think I’m going to take on a massive blogging project and do the Indie blogging thing for a year.

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I’ve been to Barcelona a few times. It’s a lovely city. Spain is one of my favourite countries.

The Only Time You Don’t Have Time

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The only time you don’t have time is when you don’t and that only happens once!

Even the best of us get tripped up by the things we preach about regularly. And today, I got tripped up, but I quickly caught myself, made the necessary adjustments, and then soldiered on.

My final conclusion on time is this: the only time you truly don’t have time to do something is when you’re dead.

Peace,
Clay
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Letting Go and Silence

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This is the first episode of the relaunch of the Digital Calm podcast. Prepare yourself for a relaxing audio experience. Find a comfortable place to sit. You may want to grab a cup of coffee or tea and your journal. For the best audio experience, you may want to listen through your earbuds or headphones.

The mission of the Digital Calm podcast is to combat busyness and help you create a pocket of calm in your otherwise busy day so you can regain focus and mental clarity.

This experience is just over 20 minutes.

Relax and enjoy.