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Make Your Damn Bed

@MYDBpodcast is a bite sized, real talk, daily motivation podcast to play while you make your bed every morning. Build momentum - better your life.Each episode is around 10 minutes and intended to encourage, motivate, and inspire you to get out of bed - so you can start making it! Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.All content, including text, graphics, images and information, is for

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10:15

1636 || dopamine detoxes are useless

Make Your Damn Bed ·

2025/12/10

Why would you want to disconnect from your joy, when trying to restore your sense of joy?You can't go on a T-break for pleasure. Instead, focus on the modifying the way you get your pleasure, instead of eliminating the pleasure itself. Dopamine is just one neurotransmitter responsible for our sense of pleasure + joy. We can't and shouldn't want to detox our dopamine levels. Dopamine is essential to motivating us to do everything from moving our bodies, to sleeping properly. This is why people with

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1635 || it really is these damn phones

Make Your Damn Bed ·

2025/12/09

I've been working on my relationship with my phone, on and off, for years. Sometimes, I use it as a tool. Sometimes, it feels like it's using me as a tool. Genuine + deeply rooted ad fatigue, traumatic events sprung upon me, most content is some form of engagement/rage/anxiety/fear bait, brain rot + ai slop, trolls + bot accounts. Misinformation + disinformation campaigns financed by literal government entities. It's disheartening to feel like I am the tool being used, and I think I am finally

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9:26

1634 || when nothing sounds fun anymore

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2025/12/08

People associate the feeling of feeling the most alive when they’re laughing and playing and goofing off. People feel the most connected with their purpose and life and future and desire to make the world a better place, when they are connected to joy + their ability to have fun once in a while.But for some reason, as we get older - we make less and less time for play. We find it frivolous and silly and a waste of time... but that means some us have lost our joie de vivre because we forgot how to

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1633 || analyzing the fun out of it

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2025/12/07

I overthink things that don't require second thought. I suck the fun out of joyful activities by worrying about doing it "correctly" or "perfectly" or performing "well enough to not embarrass myself" yet... even when there is no audience, I find myself performing. The expectations take away the true joy that comes from "creating" and "play" and "love" and "fun" and I'm trying to pay attention to this tendency so I can sit with the discomfort of not knowing if I will do a good job or not, but

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9:25

1632 || allergic to wondering

Make Your Damn Bed ·

2025/12/06

We love answers. We love conclusions. We tend to steer clear of open ended problems and tasks, because of this. But there are so many things that leave us with open ended problems that we will never be able to solve.Learning to tolerate that discomfort is an important skill to practice. The "right" answers don't exist. Let go of your "need" to know. Embrace the wholeness of the human experience; which means, we must learn to embrace the discomfort of wondering. Listen to the "I Hate Mysteries"

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1631 || are you becoming the morality police?

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2025/12/05

have been trying to stop thinking of every single decision I make as some deep moral test. Every time I stay in the shower a little too long, or support a shitty company, or buy a product wrapped in single use plastic, isn’t a condemnation of all of my character. I am not going to hell. I am not broken. I am not a piece of shit. I am a human being, set up to fail, but doing my best any-damn-way.It’s not your job to save the world, but don’t let yourself forget how fulfilling and important it can be

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10:32

1630 || the swiss cheese method

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2025/12/04

I have complex feelings about our personal responsibility. As we know the richest 1% cause more climate damage than over half of humanity. 57 companies are linked to 80% of greenhouse emissions, but our society has pushed us into the thinking its ALL our personal responsibility OR it's not at all. But all or nothing thinking is counter-productive and self-defeating.Instead think of every single imperfect (but inspired) action as a slice of swiss cheese.Sure, some harms may still make their way

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10:18

1629 || shifting from apathy to agency

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2025/12/03

We can actually build a better world, but we have to break the cycle of cynicism, first.THE CYCLE OF CYNICISM1. Finding out about a problem2. Wanting to do something to help3. Not seeing how you can help4. Not doing anything about it5. Feeling sad, powerless, angry6. Deciding that nothing can be done7. Beginning to shut down8. Wanting to know less about problems9. Repeat until apathy results.THE CYCLE OF HOPE1. Taking personal responsibility for being a good person2. Creating a vision of a better

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1628 || shifting from a cycle of cynicism to a cycle...

Make Your Damn Bed ·

2025/12/02

We can actually build a better world, but we have to break the cycle of cynicism, first.THE CYCLE OF CYNICISM1. Finding out about a problem2. Wanting to do something to help3. Not seeing how you can help4. Not doing anything about it5. Feeling sad, powerless, angry6. Deciding that nothing can be done7. Beginning to shut down8. Wanting to know less about problems9. Repeat until apathy results.THE CYCLE OF HOPE1. Taking personal responsibility for being a good person2. Creating a vision of a better

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10:58

1627 || but we're all so cynical

Make Your Damn Bed ·

2025/12/01

We can actually build a better world, but we have to break the cycle of cynicism, first. Read the Inner Self Article on How to Make the World a Better Place. Watch a video about Kinesin (motor protein). Read the report on Violent Crime And Media Coverage In One City: A Statistical SnapshotRead the American Military University article on media coverage of violent crime. SUPPORT JULIE (and the show!)DONATE to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund AND THE Sudan Relief FundGET AN OCCASIONAL PERSONAL

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10:34

1626 || time worship

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2025/11/30

The invention of the modern clock has turned time into a commodity. It's something you can spend, save, waste, lose, or trade for money directly. Clocks should be a tool, not a box. Yet we have curated our entire lives around the 24 hour clock, sometimes to the detriment of our natural biology. World Atlas on the History of TimeThe philosophy institute on Tribal Calendars University of New Mexico on Time Keepers. SUPPORT JULIE (and the show!)DONATE to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund AND THE

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11:02

1625 || one must imagine sisyphus happy

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2025/11/29

“Do you think that the trees grow tired every winter of having to shed their leaves and think to themselves, I don’t want to go through another bitter winter? And when it comes time to regrow them in the spring, do you think they say “I don’t want to push new buds out, I don’t want to form new growth and bear new fruits.”“You don’t have to struggle your way to a state of perfection, you just have to surrender to the cycles and let yourself begin to enjoy the unfolding process of your life.” - Eliza

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10:40

1624 || longtermism

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2025/11/28

A society grows great when old men plant trees under whose shade they know they’ll never sit.Yesterday we discussed the difficult task of creating Long-term nuclear waste warning messages, today I want to talk about longtermism, or the idea of doing the right thing for the future generations.William MacAskill on LongtermismRead about Long Term Nuclear Waste Warning Messages at BBC.Listen to 99% Invisible's Podcast or the Stuff You Should Know podcaston the long term messages.More reading:

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10:12

1623 || what to talk about, after the arguing (the...

Make Your Damn Bed ·

2025/11/27

If you need a conversation starter to break the awkward lulls and post-fight silences at your Thanksgiving dinner, I HIGHLY suggest looking up the wikipedia page for Long-term nuclear waste warning messages + discussing it with any and everyone who will engage. The question: How can we effectively communicate a truly DEADLY danger 10,000 years in the future? SUPPORT JULIE (and the show!)DONATE to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund AND THE Sudan Relief FundGET AN OCCASIONAL PERSONAL EMAIL FROM

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1622 || the limiting nature of overthinking

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2025/11/26

"If we focus [too much] on ourselves and how we feel, then we are limiting our experiences by definition." Victoria Spratt wrote, in her article: "You’re Thinking About Yourself Too Much"SUPPORT JULIE (and the show!)DONATE to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund AND THE Sudan Relief FundGET AN OCCASIONAL PERSONAL EMAIL FROM ME: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.comTUNE IN ON INSTAGRAM AND YOUTUBESUBSCRIBE FOR BONUS CONTENT ON PATREON.The opinions expressed by Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast

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1621 || finding purpose at an all you can eat buffet

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2025/11/25

Finding your purpose in life is like finding your favorite food at a brand new "all you can eat" buffet. You arrive hungry and excited, and everything looks pretty delicious. You try to fit a little bit of everything on your plate. You try tiny nibbles and some disappoint. Others surprise. Others are what you expect. And when it’s time to go back up and try new things you know a littttle more and lose a lil initial excitement so you grab a lil of the things you missed the first time and so on. You

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11:57

1620 || self absorbed vs. self aware

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2025/11/24

"If we focus [too much] on ourselves and how we feel, then we are limiting our experiences by definition." Victoria Spratt wrote, in her article: "You’re Thinking About Yourself Too Much"TryHuelwith 15% OFF for New Customers today using code MYDB athttps://huel.com/mydb.SUPPORT JULIE (and the show!)DONATE to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund AND THE Sudan Relief FundGET AN OCCASIONAL PERSONAL EMAIL FROM ME: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.comTUNE IN ON INSTAGRAM AND YOUTUBESUBSCRIBE FOR BONUS

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9:54

1619 || stop overthinking yourself

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2025/11/23

"I think about myself a lot, and not in a good way. I find myself obsessing over past mistakes, cringey moments, etc. and end up feeling guilty and panicked. Eventually I end up concluding that I'm a terrible person who deserves to be feeling this way." Here is the Original Post on the Meditation Reddit: Read the Substack from Soft Perception who said: "the self is not optional. it is yours to inhabit, not theirs to consume.and it will begin to show up when the hand of obligation loosens, when

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11:07

1618 || we’re in a self-objectification crisis

Make Your Damn Bed ·

2025/11/22

Understanding your identity is honestly, none of your business. Don't attach yourself to an identity, because identity, is inherently limiting to it's understood definition. Some of us are trying to fit in where we don't belong, and we wonder why we're uncomfortable. Watch the full aurora quote: "It’s easy to feel safe in yourself when you stop analyzing yourself. And let go of the fact that people may be analyzing you. And let go go the control that we feel like we need to have another’s impression

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10:44

1617 || if your screen is your kingdom

Make Your Damn Bed ·

2025/11/21

Some of us don’t engage with the rest of the world anymore not because the rest of the world sucks any more than it always has - but because you have built an intolerance for the world where you are not the dictator.As Siece Campbell put it, “your algorithm worships you. You are the only one who lives inside this tiny box, let’s say you’re spending 7+ hours on your phone every day, well those are hours that we used to spend in a reality in a world that didn’t revolve around you.”We should all be

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