This week Blake Farris (Mito Coaching’s Founder) was featured in a blog post for Style My Soul. Blake wrote about the best strategies to improve focus.

Factors that impact focus include Technology, Sleep, and the boundaries that we set. Blake goes into detail about the impacts focus have on your pursuit of your goals, the impact of notifications, and how practicing focus can be your golden ticket.

Porn addiction is a pervasive issue that affects millions of individuals worldwide. It causes significant distress and disruption in their lives. Porn interferes with personal relationships, impacting mental health, or leading to compulsive behaviors. Overcoming porn addiction is a challenging but achievable goal.

Motivation is the force that drives us to take action, pursue goals, and achieve desired outcomes. It plays a significant role in shaping our thoughts, behaviors, and decisions, influencing everything from our career aspirations to our daily habits. In this blog post, we'll explore the concept of motivation in depth, including its definition, types, and the intricate workings of the brain involved in motivating us to act.

Managing overstimulation is not only possible but essential for maintaining our mental and emotional well-being. In this comprehensive guide, we'll explore practical strategies to help you regain control, find balance, and navigate the challenges of living in a hyper-stimulated world.

A dopamine detox is an excellent way to increase focus and motivation by combating against the overstimulation that is so common. A dopamine detox requires careful consideration and planning prior to participation and will lead you to feel grounded, focused, and ready to tackle your long term goals. In this post we will discuss what a dopamine detox is and, almost as importantly, is not and how to build a dopamine detox that fits into your life. 

People will commonly feel stuck in life when they fall into dopamine traps. Dopamine traps are behaviors, substances, and/or foods that spike your dopamine and create significant troughs that result in you pursuing the same behavior again. The things that can make you feel stuck include, social media, digital entertainment, processed food, drugs and alcohol, and even our smartphones, among many others. Feeling stuck is a difficult place to be but dopamine coaching can help you spring from the trap and pursue your best life.

Cold exposure has many benefits for the brain and body. These benefits include increasing baseline dopamine, increased metabolism and fat loss, sleep and recovery time, and an improved sense of well being. Cold exposure is also a fantastic way to curb bad habits, increase motivation, and manage procrastination. Cold exposure has become a bit of a fad but this should not overshadow the extensive benefits that can be realized from this simple activity.

Cold exposure has many benefits for the brain and body. These benefits include increasing baseline dopamine, increased metabolism and fat loss, sleep and recovery time, and an improved sense of well being. Cold exposure is also a fantastic way to curb bad habits, increase motivation, and manage procrastination. Cold exposure has become a bit of a fad but this should not overshadow the extensive benefits that can be realized from this simple activity.

Pleasure is the leading cause of misery. Excess use of dopaminergic substances or behaviors is the quickest way for you to get stuck in a dull life. Leaning into pain is the only universal cure to a miserable life. When you are willing to lean into the pain of craving and desire, a life that is vivid and well lived is able to emerge from the ashes of the battlefield. 

Sadness is developed through pursuing excess pleasure and overloading our pleasure circuits to no longer feel contentment. It is very common in this day and age for us to mix the terms pleasure and happiness into one meaning. These two distinctly different feelings should not be lumped together; the former will drive you to misery while the latter is the nirvana-like feeling that most only wish for. There are multiple considerations to have when looking at pleasure and happiness, like the neurotransmitters involved, stimulation versus calming, the use of substances, and the length of the feeling.

When it comes to increasing performance in any activity, motivation and drive play a key role in performance. Dopamine is the primary neurochemical responsible for motivation and drive, meaning it plays a key role in performance. Better dopamine management increases performance by using Random Intermittent Reward Timing, avoiding layering dopamine sources, spotlighting, and with targeted and timely self talk.

When it comes to increasing baseline dopamine levels, there are at least 4 proven ways to increase this important neurochemical, dopamine, without pharmaceutical intervention. Heightening your baseline dopamine has multiple positive effects like increasing motivation, enhancing cognitive function, and giving you a sense of purpose and contentment.

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