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7 Good Minutes

Clyde Lee Dennis

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7 Good Minutes is presented by OCEANSCAPE and published by The Extraordinary Network.

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Today · 2 min
7 Good Minutes: Extra - Warm, Then Turn: A Simple Way to Listen Without Running Dry
Being a good listener doesn't mean carrying someone else's weight all the way home. The most helpful listening is warm first, then it gently turns toward what comes next. This episode walks through a simple three-step way to do that the next time...
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Today · 6 min
Why Being the Friend Everyone Vents To Leaves You So Tired
If you're the one everyone calls when things go wrong, you already know the feeling: you hang up, and it's like someone let the air out of you. That tiredness isn't a sign you care too little. It has more to do with how the listening is happening....
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Yesterday · 2 min
7 Good Minutes: Extra - The Two-Minute Plan For The Thing You're Avoiding
Got one specific thing you've been putting off — a call, a stack of paperwork, a hard conversation? Here's a way to actually get moving on it today. This episode walks through building one simple plan: naming the exact task, shrinking the first step...
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Yesterday · 7 min
Why Knowing What To Do Isn't Enough To Start It
You know exactly what a hard task requires. You have the time. And you still don't start it — again. Today we look at why that gap between knowing and doing isn't really a discipline problem. For a lot of people, avoidance is the mind protecting...
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Sunday · 1 min
7 Good Minutes: Extra - The Other Explanation Rule: What To Do With a Short Reply
A short reply or a quiet moment doesn't tell you what someone meant — but the story you build around it can feel just as real as a fact, unless you catch it in time. Here's a simple way to catch it: the Other Explanation Rule. The moment you notice...
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Sunday · 5 min
The Story You Tell Yourself About a Short Reply
A text that usually comes back warm shows up as a flat “ok” — and before you've done anything else, you've already decided what it means. They're annoyed. You said something wrong. They're pulling away. Today we look at why an ambiguous moment like...
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Saturday · 1 min
7 Good Minutes: Extra - The Worry Window: One Habit for Daytime Worry
If a worry keeps interrupting your day before anything's actually happened, here's the specific habit for it: a worry window. This episode walks through setting one up — picking a short window later in the day, naming a worry in a few words the...
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Saturday · 4 min
Why Worrying Doesn't Make You More Ready
Your mind keeps circling back to the same what-if — a pending test result, a tight budget, a hard conversation you haven't had yet — and twenty minutes later nothing about the situation has actually changed, except how you feel. This episode looks at...
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Friday · 1 min
7 Good Minutes: Extra - The "Worst-Day" Sizing Test, For New Habits
If a habit only works on your best days, it isn't built to last. Today's Extra gives you a quick way to size any habit so it fits your worst ones instead. Pick a habit you want, or one you've already dropped. Picture your actual worst realistic...
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Friday · 4 min
The Habit Problem That Isn't About Willpower
You start something good on Sunday night — a morning walk, a page of journaling, more water, less phone. It holds for a day or two. Then an ordinary bad day shows up, the habit gets skipped "just this once," and before long it's quietly gone. Most...
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Thursday · 1 min
7 Good Minutes: Extra - Close Three: A Simple Bedtime Habit for Unfinished Tasks
Those small things still sitting open in your mind — the text you haven't answered, the form you haven't finished, the appointment you haven't booked — are quietly pulling at your attention all day, even when you're not thinking about them directly....
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Thursday · 3 min
The Two Hidden Costs That Drain You On an Ordinary Day
You didn't do anything hard today — so why do you feel completely wiped out by the end of it? This episode names the two ordinary costs most people never add up: the small thing left unfinished that your mind won't put down, and the effort of showing...
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Wednesday · 1 min
7 Good Minutes: Extra - Name It Before You Aim It: The Move for a Heated Moment
You feel the heat in your face. Your jaw tightens. Your thumb is already moving toward send. This is the exact moment this episode is for. Today's Extra walks through the move, step by step: find the one honest word for what you're actually feeling,...
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Wednesday · 4 min
The Few Seconds That Decide What You Say Next
A coworker's message reads like a jab. Your kid knocks over a full cup two minutes before you have to be out the door. Someone cuts you off in traffic. Your partner says one offhand thing that lands wrong. In that instant, the sharp reply, the raised...
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October 6 · 1 min
7 Good Minutes: Extra - A One-Question Way to Take the Edge Off in Five Minutes
Rest doesn't always fail because you didn't get enough of it — sometimes it fails because it was the wrong kind for what actually wore you out today. This episode gives you the one-question rest check: a quick way to figure out whether you're foggy...
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October 6 · 6 min
Why You Can Rest All Day and Still Feel Drained
You rested last night, or all weekend, or even took a full day off — and you still feel just as drained as before. This episode explains why: rest isn't one thing, and the kind of tired that survives a full night's sleep usually comes from a specific...
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October 5 · 1 min
7 Good Minutes: Extra - The Two-Question Check Before You Over-Explain Yourself
The next time someone's reaction turns cold after something you said or did, there's a short check you can run before you react. This episode walks through two quick questions: whether you actually acted honestly and reasonably, and whether there's...
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October 5 · 3 min
When Someone's Reaction Isn't Actually Your Fault
You said no, gave an honest answer, or made a normal decision about your own life — and the other person's mood changed. Their tone cooled, they went quiet, or they walked away clearly unhappy, even though you didn't actually do anything wrong....
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October 4 · 1 min
7 Good Minutes: Extra - A Two-Minute Way to Quiet Your Mind Before Bed
If your mind won't stop running through tomorrow's to-do list the moment you lie down, today's Extra gives you one specific way to close that loop before you ever get under the covers. It takes about two minutes. Grab paper or your phone, get...
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October 4 · 4 min
Why Your Mind Won't Let You Fall Asleep Until It's Said Everything
You finally get into bed after a full day, and that's exactly when your mind decides to run through everything you didn't finish today and everything that could go wrong tomorrow. Trying to just stop thinking about it almost never works, and it isn't...
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