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Mazie Wingeier
Thanks for reading and thanks for your response, Wendy! Hahaha I heard the Patsy Cline song the other day and immediately started thinking about attachment and gaslighting, lol.
I think there are so many moments when we can ask people what they mean and what they're feeling...so many moments most of us don't take. So it's a call to action for sure!
Thank you for writing this. Since becoming trauma-informed I have found the word "crazy" dismissive, superficial, and stigmatizing. It is exactly for the reasons you have said - it is non-specific and ignores the pain that led to the moment we're referring to. Great work.
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This just popped up on my Facebook and you have hit the nail on the head! I have read your articles for years and 4HWW came across my plate just as I was heading on a walkabout. It definitely provided me with some comfort and direction.
This post definitely came at the right time, thanks so much for sharing. I always had to many things on my to do list, but finally realized that I get way more done if i stick to 2-3 really important tasks. Also waking up early in the morning has boosted my productivity a lot.
Tim thank you for writing this. I struggle with depression and procrastination as well. A lot of the time I feel like even though I have had a fair amount of success in my life, like my difficulties consistently performing at a high level have held me back from really achieving the big goals I have.
Tim, thanks for being unapologetically open about your tendency to procrastinate. Its a healthy dose of reality for people to know there is a human side to you that so many can relate to (vs aspiring to).
I really resonate with what you say about email first thing in the morning being a mind (and focus) killer! Its been a big realisation for me to change habits from checking my phone first thing in the morning for up to 30 min a day, to focusing one the one most important thing for the day.
This may be your best post ever, and that is saying a lot! You have been such an inspiration to me, but it always seemed like you set a standard that a chump like me could never achieve. Thanks for sharing!
I really resonate with what you say about email first thing in the morning being a mind (and focus) killer! I had to prioritise changing the habit of checking my phone first thing in the morning for up to 30 min a day, to not checking it before I start work, instead focusing on the one most important thing for the day.
Can you point me to a copy of that research on mentally recalling the trigger, then retraining the response? I have patients that really struggle with habit change and it would be great to point them to the research to show how to help overcome it.
I hear you on the caffeine. I was doing the 8-10 cups a day. I love coffee but it was making me crazy. Also coffee triggers stress. I switched to green tea and yerbe matte and doing a lot better. Caffeine withdrawal is a bitch. Do not do it cold turkey like I did. Gradual taper off is the best.
One of the best things I did was get an assistant and gave them all the work I did not want to do. I hired a friend that was out of work and paid them every week. this freed up a lot of time and got the things done I needed to do but kept putting them off. It was actually fun seeing how much got done with out me having to do it all.
Thanks for posting this. It makes many of my recent struggles seem more realistic. Been terribly overwhelmed these past two weeks too. It really helps me when my heroes admit humanity, as I have a tendency to imagine them above that.
There is a book that has helped me get much more done than really anything else. Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway by Susan Jeffers Ph.D. It has a really big impact on me and since I read it half a year or so ago I have thought about it every day.
Matt ( a great name, BTW ), I find that my single biggest challenge is also taking action. So many ideas, so many fragments, all in an endless swirl of What has value? What can be monetized? What would just be good for me? What will others think?
Your book / article recommendations have been very useful (1000 true fans, breaking the time barrier etc), so in a similar vein, what are your (say top 3) recommendations for gentleman friendly websites for those, like you, in need of relaxation?
Consider doing what dr oz does. He still performs open heart surgery once a week, then films the next day. He says it keeps him centered, and seeing people in their last moments of life motivates him to live life to the fullest.
For this strategy, the goal is to find a way to be positive in the present, and what I mentioned in the first part of this message works for me (coming from someone who battled some serious mental sh*t!)
I recently turned 26 and I challenged myself to think of the three most important life-lessons that took me approximately 26 years to learn (admittedly, some of these were rediscovered upon my annual reread of 4HWW):
2. Knowledge is cumulative. Take time to identify your strengths and intentionally develop them. Become a life-long learner, and as a word of caution, remember: doing something unimportant well does not make it important.
Thanks for this post. It contains great advice that I needed, but is also much more inspiring than just advice. It seems like you are the efficiency master, so I know that if you also struggle with it but get past it, so can I!
Found your book in a bookstore one day and decided to look you up on the interweb. Landed me to this beautiful spot where I actually read this blog post word for word (usually a quick skimmer). Powerful stuff and grateful for the advice.
The Invasive Species Research Lab at BFL is working to understand the basic biology and ecology of this invader and its natural enemies. Our ultimate goal is to develop an effective biological control strategy for this ant in order to limit the expansion and success of this invader in a sustainable manner. We have made progress on several fronts.
To gain a better understanding of the costs of this invasion, our lab has examined the impact that crazy ants have on native arthropod communities. We have found that they outcompete and displace all of their larger, native ant counterparts in areas that they colonizes. This species also reduces the diversity and abundance of insects generally, critical components of the food web. These losses to biodiversity are greater than the damage done by imported fire ants that occupied these habitats before the crazy ant invasion.
Interestingly, dense populations of invading crazy ants even displace the notoriously tough imported fire ant. Surprisingly, crazy ants can easily kick imported fire ants off of food resources and even take over their mounds to use as their own nests. We conducted follow-up research to understand how this occurs. We learned that crazy ants possess behavioral and chemical adaptations that allow them to fight fire ants with impunity. Crazy ants, like all ants in this group, produce formic acid as venom and use it as a weapon when fighting other ants. However, by applying their own venom to areas of their body exposed to the highly toxic, alkaloid venom of fire ants, crazy ants can completely detoxify the fire ant venom. This study was the first documentation of this type of chemical counter-measure in insects. It turns out this use of formic acid is shared by many species of ants related to tawny crazy ants and thus has deep evolutionary roots.
Crazy ants are currently restricted to the Gulf Coast region of North America. Although this is partially happenstance, an environmental niche model, done in collaboration with a variety of researchers in North and South America, indicates that this distribution reflects their underlying climate tolerances. The Gulf Coast region is particularly suitable for this ant and it is likely to remain particularly problematic in this region.
We have also undertaken studies into the colony organization in this species. In both their native range in South America and in North America tawny crazy ants have multiple queens per colony. In South America, tawny crazy ants from different colonies are mutually intolerant. This type multicolonial social organization is common in ants. Occasionally, in their native range, colonies become large and span areas of up to 100 meters in diameter. However, in North America, crazy ant workers from different areas of the same infestation, from different infestations, or even from different states display no aggression when brought together, treating each other as nest mates. In fact, behavioral and genetic data gathered to date indicate that all tawny crazy ants in the Southeastern US and Texas are members of the same supercolony. Although local infestations may not be connected to each other, the ants recognize each other as close relatives. Understanding how nests within colonies and colonies within populations interact is crucial piece for any informed social insect management program.
While crazy ants are formidable, our initial studies of this species have yielded several potential candidate control agents. As with all modern, responsible biological control efforts, the first priority is to demonstrate that the impacts of the candidate control agents are specific to crazy ants. The first crazy ant pathogen we have encountered is the microsporidian pathogen, Mymecomorba nylanderiae. Our lab, in co-operation with USDA scientists, described this pathogen and documented its presence in crazy ants in scattered populations in Texas and Florida. We do not yet know the how this pathogen got into US crazy ant populations, but we have not found it infecting native ants or other arthropods in nature or in the laboratory.
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