The Human Race
The Human Race

The time is four a.m. on a crisp autumn morning and I stand on my back porch while I watch my dog do her business and envy her blissful ignorance.  I take a deep breath and survey the skies, as the fog surrounds the air and the conifer trees sway in the wind against a clear moonlit backdrop.  What has me up at this ungodly hour you ask?  Well, it’s finally the day I am set to run that damn 50k I’ve been training for these past six months. 

My health had been getting put on the back burner as the stresses of life begin to pile up on me.  Honestly, ….

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Dean YoakumSolykos Mediagarden, start, consciousness, philosophy, beginnings, journey, Stoic, Mind, Growth Mindset, podcast, Solykos
Presence
Presence

It’s a Tuesday morning and I stand in solitude in the kitchen looking at the wreck that is my apartment. Then the steam begins to emerge from the tea kettle on the stove, I yawn and stretch to the sky as the water reaches the perfect temperature. As I begin to pour it over the coffee grounds into the French press, I smell the aroma and…

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Dean YoakumSolykos Media
A Night to be Grateful For
A Night to be Grateful For

As of late I have been feeling very overwhelmed. This feeling ultimately is manifesting itself in my actions as anger and resentment. It is causing me to react to simple things with major outburst. This is a behavior that I exhibited in the past that I have since put a ton of effort into extinguishing. So, these recent reactions are…

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Dean YoakumSolykos Media