DrBAE - Dr Bartons Aural Elixirs (Iain Barton Shorts)

DrBAE - Productivity Advice - Heck! advice for everyday life! 18 May 2026 #productivity #drbae

you can't be ALWAYS "on" ... nor indeed "relaxed" and in "the flow" all the time ...everything you do as a human being requires some kind of natural rhythm.some times you need to push the pace and some times you need to ease up and take it slow!!!!respect rythms, cycles of effort and pace throughout your day and more generally speaking too!#drbae #productivity #lifeadvice

you will fail - don’t do this - 18 May 2026

don't set yourself unattainable goalsif we were to qualify this in terms of percentages ... then you should be thinking ...well from my baseline my goal is to achieve a 1% to probably 25% better result.the further away the deadline the higher you could set your percentage of improvement, just don't make it too challenging otherwise you will fail!

Reset - sometimes the best thing to do is go to bed and have a reset .... 17 May 2026

sometimes the best thing to do is go to bed and have a reset from the day ...best wishes Iain

becoming more aware... 16 May 2026 #awareness

a question you can ask yourself to help yourself become more aware is ..."what am I aware of RIGHT NOW?"BEST BLESSINGS IAIN#awareness

yew tree hugger ... #treehugger - 16 May 2026

just tree hugging ....#treehugger #treehugging

how to stop scrolling - 16 May 2026 #howtostop #scrolling

you're scrolling because you need that dopamine hit, because you're bored, because you're procrastinating from the thing that you should be doing ...next time you get that urge just pause just pause just pause say to yourself what is it that I should be doing right now? best wishes #howto #drbae #stopscrolling

my new series... good advice... that I don’t follow myself - 16 May 2026 #goodadvice

Good advice - that I don't follow myself BUT I wish I would ...Don't watch the news and current affairs ... It only seems to make you anxious and unhappy and angst ....Best wishes Iain

How Zac deals with friendly teasing - it’s an interesting reactive response - 16 May 2026 #banter

How Zac deals with friendly teasing - it's an interesting reactive response when you are experiencing friendly banter or teasing wherever you consider it to be an appropriate thing or not there are I've noticed two ways that you can deal with it the most obvious way and the way that is usually recommended is just to ignore it you probably don't want to overreact in a very reactive angry way, very cutting away, an d probably not exactly in a very kind of piffy witty way as a response ... perhaps you might? this is argued this is not the right approach - as it's demonstrated to the teaser they've got under your skin Zac does have this interest in approach which is quite clever. basically it's turning the teasing into being the absurd, usually agreeing with the preposition, and then implicating the teaser into it as well. I appreciate that this could be considered a witty approach but it is a little bit more sophisticated than that 16 May 2026 #banter #teasing #drbae #howto #howtocopewithteasing

relax into the nowness - 16 May 2026 #awareness #powerofnow #selfawareness

relax into awareness you cannot force it be alert to the nowness of nowallow the awareness be experienced in the nowbest blessings Iain

a harsh and brutal dieting truth! (it also has applications elsewhere) 16 May 2026 #truth #diet

a harsh and brutal dieting truth - treats! don't do them! not if you want there to be progress. this truth has other applications ...generally speaking we need to make treats rare and infrequent, in order to make progress#selfimprovement #diet #diettips