Frequency Levels
And how they resonate
Have you seen those stupid memes where it says, “you’re being robbed at gunpoint and the only way to be saved is to sing every lyric of a song of your choice - which song would you pick?”
And while I can certainly bang out every lyric of Public Service Announcement by Jay-Z with relative ease, I’d have a higher survival rate if I could give my rehearsed spiel in response to “What does ‘High Frequency’ mean?”
You can check the “About Us” for the abridged version of the one I often regurgitate. Yes, a morning walk is a high frequency activity. And on the other hand, scrolling on your phone in bed is a low frequency activity. They will both resonate throughout your day, whether positively or negatively. I’ve gone through this same analogy hundreds of time.
Yesterday, I went to the gym (humble brag). Working out, by nature, is a very high frequency activity. If I don’t work out in some capacity in the morning, I’ll be sluggish throughout the day. But it wasn’t my usual gym. It was a hotel gym. And hotel gyms are often barren and uninspiring.
How am I supposed to conceptualize a high frequency activity in a low frequency place?!?
I’m unsure how this preamble relates to this blog post, but this whirlwind of frequencies led me to think about high and low frequency things.
And that’s what I’m going to write about today.
High Frequency Things
When you hype up something to your friends and they all try it and love it as much as you do
The deep exhale after your first sip of coffee
Favorite bench press is open on a Monday morning workout
“Forever in her eyes staring back at me” -Darius Rucker
When the whole group chat likes your message
Finding a good “back-cracking” chair
Hearing John Sterling say “It is high, it is far, it is GONE”
A good book on a cozy day
Any golf shot (even a shank)
Inhaling a safe dose of helium and talking high-pitched
A restaurant where the staff is in a good mood
Celebrating the wins of your loved ones
When your friends from different parts of your life become friends
Seeing a new animal in the wild for the first time
Cutting into a steak and seeing that it’s perfectly cooked
Petting a dog
Finding a piece of sea glass at the beach
The first bite of an elite sandwich
“That beer hit my hand on a Friday like Mjolnir”
Low Frequency Things
Hotel gyms
Another couple bickering in the same room as you
Taking a sip of a carbonated drink that has gone flat
Bathrooms that are a few hours past when they should’ve been cleaned
When Daylight Savings ends
Energy vampires
Finding a hair in your food
Cockroaches
Dropping something on your foot
Spilled milk
Going to the DMV
Talking with AI customer service agents
Middle seats on the airplane
Ordering an iced coffee and you see the barista pouring hot coffee over ice
The point of this blog isn’t just to list a bunch of things that I like and don’t like, despite what it may appear to be.
The point of this blog is to recognized and appreciate the things that bring you joy and make your life better. And to try your best to avoid the ones that don’t benefit you.
Keep doing the things that bring you joy. Stop doing the things that make your life worse.
But before you can do that, you first have to identify which things are positive and negative.
Frankly, it’s a very therapeutic tool. So, thank you all for being my therapist today.
If you have a few minutes, make a list of your own. It may help.
I’ll finish with this:
The Highest Frequency Thing
Bringing the High Frequency Coffee Cart to your office
The Lowest Frequency Thing
Continuing to drink coffee from your office’s Keurig
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