<![CDATA[Modern Day Pirates: Suburb]]>https://www.moderndaypiratesguild.com/s/self-carehttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!b_L1!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe78c4e61-1611-4fa4-9292-3505dbedaed5_1280x1280.pngModern Day Pirates: Suburbhttps://www.moderndaypiratesguild.com/s/self-careSubstackSun, 12 Apr 2026 13:40:32 GMT<![CDATA[This will always get you moving ->]]>https://www.moderndaypiratesguild.com/p/this-will-always-get-you-movinghttps://www.moderndaypiratesguild.com/p/this-will-always-get-you-movingThu, 15 Feb 2024 16:14:00 GMTInertia is our enemy…

Feeling stuck, overwhelmed, unsure what decision to make.

The indecision is our foe.

It’s like being stuck in mud and slowly sinking. Should you call out to the person nearby and ask for help? Or should you lie down, spread your weight out and crawl through the mud?

You cannot decide and so you do nothing.

There is a key to getting unstuck and that is to understand that any action is better than no action at all.

Forward motion is critical, otherwise you will stay in the mud.

Go for a run. Commit to trying something different for a month. Call a friend. Ask for help. Get out of the office and work from a local cafe. Anything is always better than nothing when you are stuck in the mud.

For our paid subscribers, I’ve laid out a sketch from my iPad below that highlights the importance of forward motion.

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]]><![CDATA[I often found gratitude boring]]>https://www.moderndaypiratesguild.com/p/i-often-found-gratitude-boringhttps://www.moderndaypiratesguild.com/p/i-often-found-gratitude-boringMon, 07 Aug 2023 15:01:58 GMTWhat’s the opposite of gratitude?

Entitlement? Greed?

Actually I think it’s depression, not necessarily the clinical form.

Depressions expressed as ambivalence, the unexcited life, the feeling that you need more and yet that you will never have enough.

At some stage in your life someone has probably told you to practice gratitude…

They’ve probably told you …

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]]><![CDATA[Special Message from Geoff (Please Read)]]>https://www.moderndaypiratesguild.com/p/special-message-from-geoff-read-asaphttps://www.moderndaypiratesguild.com/p/special-message-from-geoff-read-asapWed, 22 Mar 2023 01:45:05 GMT

It is easy to feel like you are the only boat on the ocean…

I snapped this photo this morning and shared this story on Facebook also.

Earlier this week I had the post birthday blues…

I was suffering, depressed etc…

At first I wondered if it was because it was my first birthday since my mama passed…

I am an orphan now…an adult one (still tough LOL)

It is easy …

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]]><![CDATA[Swimming in the Winter]]>https://www.moderndaypiratesguild.com/p/swimming-in-the-winterhttps://www.moderndaypiratesguild.com/p/swimming-in-the-winterWed, 08 Sep 2021 21:20:41 GMTRecently, I started taking cold dips in the New Zealand ocean.

It’s winter and the water is cold.

Freeze the balls off a brass monkey kind of cold.

When I first stepped into the ocean I thought it was some kind of sadistic joke. I could hardly breath; everything in me wanted to run out of the water…

But i chose to remain…

I reminded myself that I could do ha…

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