HeyJaredThe Messy Middle
A quiet space for people who are tired of chasing success while losing themselves in the process. I write about living and working from presence—not pressure—through embodied awareness, mind clarity, subconscious rewiring, and conscious choice.
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Breaking the Cycle: Why I Screamed at My Daughter, and How It Led to REWIRED (opens the original)
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I used to be a chronic high achiever. I loved working hard, never pausing, and never even stopping to take a sip of water when I was busy. Whenever I started a task, I had an obsessive need to finish it in one sitting. That was my old habit of working.When I finally left my career to build a new life, I thought I was leaving that stress behind. Instead, I carried that exact same frantic working style straight into building my new business.The result? I ended up completely burnt out.But the worst
The Upgrade You Must Start Doing (opens the original)
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When did you last update your phone?Probably recently. Probably without thinking twice. Because you understand — without anyone needing to explain it — that an outdated program running on new demands creates friction, slowness, and failure. You update because that is simply what you do when something needs to work better.Now here is the question I want you to sit with.When did you last update yourself?Not your skills. Not your career. The program running underneath all of that. The beliefs about
Episode 9: The Science of Writing Things Down (opens the original)
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The brain is not a hard drive.Most people treat it like one. They think a thought and expect it to stay. They set a goal and expect the mind to hold it. They have an insight and wait for it to change their life.But the brain does not record everything. It filters. Using three mechanisms — attention, emotion, and the hippocampus — it decides what stays and what dissolves. Information without attention, emotion, or repetition does not get encoded. It passes through and disappears.This is why most
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