Tag: personal

General, Mindfulness, Technology

The Social Media Detox That Changed Everything

Corie Muldoon
The Social Media Detox That Changed Everything

The simplest way to improve your social media experience? Start removing instead of adding.

I just deleted over 2,000 Instagram followers and unfollowed 500+ accounts. Next up: Facebook friends

Here’s what I’m keeping:

  • People I genuinely know and like
  • Accounts that inspire without overwhelming
  • Connections that feel reciprocal and real

What I’m removing:

  • Random followers from years ago
  • Accounts that drain my energy
  • Anyone who fails the feel-good test

This isn’t about being exclusive or mean, it’s about being intentional. Quality connections over vanity metrics. Real relationships over random follows.

The result? I already feel lighter. My feed shows people I actually care about. My mental space feels cleaner. Instead of scrolling past hundreds of strangers, I’m seeing updates from friends and family who matter.

Social media should enhance your real relationships, not replace them with shallow connections to people you barely know or like. It’s a hard truth. Control what you can. And part of that is filtering what content you’re consuming.

Try this today:

Look at your feeds. Do you genuinely care about the people you’re seeing? If not, give unfollow.

Ready for your own digital detox?! Take it one platform at a time. 10 minute intervals going through your friends list. Instagram let’s you remove followers too if someone is following you that you don’t want.

Slow and steady progress. Peaceful warrior type shit.

General, Lifestyle, Mindfulness

12 Self-Reflection Questions for Personal Growth

Corie Muldoon

In the spirit of getting a little bit better everyday, take a moment to ponder on the following questions:

1. Do you like the person you are? Who you’ve become?

2. Is there anything you’d change about yourself to be better?

3. What’s your dream life look like?

4. What are some things you want but don’t have?

5. Are you ‘lacking’ anything?

6. What’s keeping you from having those things?

7. How do you talk to yourself on a daily basis?

8. Are we generally uplifting or do we feel bad?

9. How are we interpreting situations?

10. Are things usually good or bad?

11. Are you dwelling on things or addressing things right away?

12. Are you blaming the world or finding lessons and moving on?

Bonus questions:

13. Do you feel sick often, suffer from indigestion, or stress symptoms?

14. Is there any way to make your life simpler?

15. Are you physically active and eating healthy?

16. What type of thoughts do you have? Positive or negative?

17. Do you take time to think good thoughts, planting good mental seeds?

18. Do you say yes because you want to, or because you “have” to?

7 Habits of Highly Successful People, Books, Healthy Habits, Lifestyle

How to Make the Most of Free Time: Quadrant II Activities

Corie Muldoon

Got some free time today?! If you choose something from the list below you’re getting 1% better!

Even a minute goes a long way… now imagine if you spend a few minutes each day on something… starts to add up quick!

Quadrant II Activities

Education

Diet and exercise

Reading

Writing

Goal planning

Time management

Cultivating relationships

Cleaning

Creative thinking

Proactive work

Living Quad 2

Better yourself and your life situation by choosing a quad 2 activity when you have free time! Go a step further and schedule these activities into your week so you know they’re getting done. Track your progress and adjust along the way!

I use this concept to help me live a healthier lifestyle, accomplish big goals, and stay up-to-date on important things… all comes down to using free time wisely!

My powerlist nowadays are looking like:

1. fruit first

2. 30 mins movement

3. read 10 mins

4. write 10 mins

5. active income plan

These aren’t necessarily habits for me yet; they are quad 2 activities I wanna make sure I’m doing daily though. They go on my daily powerlist until they’re habit

Some quad 2 habits I have established already and loving: drink 8 oz water when I wake up, 15 mins sun time, walking the dog, reviewing life map, quality time w jd, house clean, plant care, laundry, thinking time, weekly timeblock

Read more about quad 2 activities here: Boost Productivity with Quadrant II Activities

Feeling inspired? Share your thoughts below!

General, Relationships

Reevaluate Life Prompts for Personal Growth: Couples Edition

Corie Muldoon

Ever feel like you and your partner are running on autopilot? When life gets busy, it’s easy to lose sight of your growth as a couple.

Joe and I set aside time once a year for a life check-in using thoughtful prompts. These prompts are meant to help us discover blind spots, celebrate progress, and realign our priorities together.

Thoughtful prompts aren’t just questions, they’re conversation starters. Try some out during your next quiet evening together and see what insights emerge.

Reevaluate Life Prompts

Below are some example questions:

  1. Looking at our current path: our jobs, our living situation, and how we spend our time – what parts feel really aligned with who we are and what we want? What parts might need tweaking to better match our values or goals?

  2. When we feel most content and ‘in flow’ together in our daily life, what exactly are we doing? Are we creating enough space for those moments, or should we reorganize some things to have more of what makes us thrive?

  3. What’s one thing we each feel a little nervous or uncertain about in our current plans? It could be something small or big – and then let’s brainstorm how we could address that uncertainty together.

These prompts aren’t meant to be answered once and forgotten. Keep responses in a shared google doc and revisit them every few months to see how you’ve grown. Jot down notes, write out any needed fixes, assign action items, keep on growing.

What’s beautiful about this practice is that there are no wrong answers. There’s only opportunities to understand each other more deeply and create a more intentional future together.

Remember, the goal isn’t to have perfect responses but to create space for honest conversation about what matters most.

Quick Tips for Success

  • Set aside distractions

  • Approach each prompt with curiosity rather than judgment

  • Be open to what you discover about yourselves as individuals and as partners

✨ Getting 1% better, together ✨

Books, Think & Grow Rich

Take Inventory of Yourself: 28 Questions You Should Answer

Corie Muldoon

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The amount of money we make, the relationships we have, the progress we make… can be directly related to the effectiveness and quality of our actions.

At a warehouse for example, if the machine is effective, we’re pushing out quality products. The labels line up perfectly.

We’re like machines in that way. If we’re off in some way, the results we get will be slightly (or majorly) different from what we’d want.

Below are 28 questions that allow us to take a personal inventory. They come from one of my top books: Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.

Ideally we find faults in our actions and work to improve them. Overtime we should find ourselves doing better, at a larger amount, with a good positive attitude. The theme of these questions is performance, at work and in life.

Self-Analysis Questionnaire for Personal Inventory

  1. Have I attained the goal which I established as my objective for this year? (You should work with a definite yearly objective to be attained as a part of your major life objective.)

  2. Have I delivered service of the best possible quality of which I was capable, or could I have improved any part of this service?

  3. Have I delivered service in the greatest possible quantity of which I was capable?

  4. Has the spirit of my conduct been harmonious and cooperative at all times?

  5. Have I permitted the habit of procrastination to decrease my efficiency and if so, to what extent?

  6. Have I improved my personality, and if so, in what ways?

  7. Have I been persistent in following my plans through to completion?

  8. Have I reached decisions promptly and definitely on all occasions?

  9. Have I permitted any one or more of the six basic fears [poverty, criticism, ill health, loss of love of someone, old age, death] to decrease my efficiency?

  10. Have I been either “over-cautious,” or “under-cautious”?

  11. Has my relationship with my associates in work been pleasant, or unpleasant? If it has been unpleasant, has the fault been partly, or wholly mine?

  12. Have I dissipated any of my energy through lack of concentration of effort?

  13. Have I been open-minded and tolerant in connection with all subjects?

  14. In what way have I improved my ability to render service?

  15. Have I been intemperate in any of my habits?

  16. Have I expressed, either openly or secretly, any form of egotism?

  17. Has my conduct toward my associates been such that it has induced them to respect me?

  18. Have my opinions and decisions been based upon guesswork, or accuracy of analysis and thought?

  19. Have I followed the habit of budgeting my time, my expenses, and my income, and have I been conservative in these budgets?

  20. How much time have I devoted to unprofitable effort which I might have used to better advantage?

  21. How may I re-budget my time, and change my habits so I will be more efficient during the coming year?

  22. Have I been guilty of any conduct which was not approved by my conscience?

  23. In what ways have I rendered more service and better service than I was paid to render?

  24. Have I been unfair to anyone, and if so, in what way?

  25. If I had been the purchaser of my own services for the year, would I be satisfied with my purchase?

  26. Has the purchaser of my services been satisfied with the service I have rendered, and if not, why not?

  27. Am I in the right vocation, and if not, why not?

  28. What is my present rating on the fundamental principles of success? (Make this rating fairly, and frankly, and have it checked by someone who is courageous enough to do it accurately.)”

This is the exact self-analysis questionnaire we use at our house! It’s the first thing we do to close out the year and plan for the new year. And you most certainly can go through this at any point throughout the year.

Productivity

Maximizing Productivity: Applying Pareto’s 80/20 Principle for Success

Corie Muldoon

PARETO’S LAW: Vilfredo Pareto is an Italian economist who is credited with coining the term the 80/20 principle. That is, 80% of results are driven by 20% of effort.

Tim Ferriss, author of 4 Hour Work Week, claims that each of us should revisit the 80/20 principle every four weeks and apply it to both our work and personal lives to see how we can focus on maximizing our productive output.

Sample questions to prompt your own 80/20 analysis:

Personal

Which 20% of daily foods provide 80% of nutrients?

Which 20% of daily activities support 80% of growth?

Which 20% of daily movement provide 80% of results?

Which 20% of daily actions provide 80% of energy?

Which 20% of worries fuel 80% of anxiety?

Work

Which 20% of my network supports 80% of my growth?

Which 20% of business activities generate 80% return?

Which 20% of content gets 80% of engagement?

Which 20% of finance activities bring 80% of results?

Which 20% of customers are driving 80% of revenue?


My experience with 80/20 analysis

I started implementing the 80/20 analysis in 2020. It’s a great exercise to help me narrow my focus on what I should be doing on a daily basis and who I should be surrounding myself with if I want to be happy, healthy, and fit in all areas.

The 80/20 analysis helps me produce more result with less effort. A few right things done each day = long term success. Analyzing the 80/20 principle helps you figure out what those few right things are for you.

And because we are always changing and evolving, reviewing 80/20 multiple times throughout the year allows us to keep a pulse on what’s really working for us, adjusting along the way.

When we start to narrowing in on the 20% activities that give us more result, our personal and work KPIs skyrocket. Going all in on a handful of activities each day is way better than overcommitting and being spread too thin.

I love this quote by Bruce Lee: “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”

After I review my 80/20 analysis, I update my Life Map accordingly and use the Powerlist to keep on top of my daily goals.

Each day, in every way, we are getting better and better.