Chad Peevy

📘 Author 🎤 Speaker 🔎 Exploring the intersection of personal growth, professional development, and mental health.

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🌈 Growing up a gay kid in rural Arkansas I had to learn how to survive.

As an adult - those survival skills were sabotaging me.

But I discovered a way to overcome the inherited mindsets holding me back - and wrote a book about what I learned...

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@mikehoffmann Course

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Insightful article. I think there’s a role for the coaching industry to play here. I taught a college course last year to 42 undergrads called “The Art of Adulthood” using my book as the cornerstone text - where we discussed many of the things that Brooks talked about in this article. Coaches….approach your local colleges about teaching elective courses for young people to learn about what it to means to live meaningful lives. I found my class to be hungry for it and they participated eagerly - and for me - completely rewarding.

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@REDROMINA I owned the in-house marketing firm for the world’s largest real estate office. My situation afforded me a built in, steady stream of clients. Lots of agents who needed help with marketing - from business cards to social media management.

What about you?

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Hard to do this without more context, but hope this helps...

Boredom is an externally acceptable way to avoid contact with what is here and now.

It's an internal saboteur because it's stopping you from taking action.

You are making a decision to avoid the present - allowing you to mask an underlying emotion (anger).

In a way you are over-functioning for people by saying to yourself, "Instead of facing this or telling them how they are letting me down, I'll just be bored." (this can also play out within yourself or with an "it" - like a career / industry)

Boredom is also a shade of depression. And Freud said that depression is "rage turned inward." (which I love)

So they fact that they are using the word "bored" reveals that the underlying emotion is likely anger.

So I would explore fear of expressing anger, the real target of that anger, and find a healthy way to express that anger toward the appropriate target.

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@voidtolight I did. Highly recommend.

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@voidtolight Looks great, Nicole!

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@ChibuOnwurah Great thread!

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@MichaelLucchesi Way to go!

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@CopySecrets Great tip!

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@salmanlarii Today isn't over until tomorrow is planned!

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@heydavewu Never connecting with people / loneliness as a choice

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@OutdoorsmanX I want to see Bowling Ball Beach! Great list!

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@AdInsiders Awesome tips!

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@sensaisakura Great reminder, Scott.

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▶️ Problems disguise goals
▶️ Boredom disguises a lack of imagination 
▶️ Depression disguises rage 
▶️ Avoidance disguises anxiety

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@slodown4what @LewisHowes great quote!

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@SarikiMohd @markmanson truth. scary/insane isn't it?