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Christopher Sherrod | Essays on Living a Fulfilling Life
Christopher Sherrod writes about rebuilding a meaningful life after success, illness, and digital overload—and shares practical ways to live with more attention and fewer regrets.
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I Stopped Sharing My Life and Started Living It
After a grand mal seizure forced me offline, journaling gave me a private way to document my life—and helped me live with more attention, balance, and meaning.
Love Is the Killer App Review: Why Generosity Still Wins in Business
A thoughtful review of Tim Sanders's Love Is the Killer App and its enduring lessons on knowledge, networking, compassion, generosity, and creating value.
Why I Made Unplug
Why Christopher Sherrod created Unplug after becoming highly sensitive to electronics following a major seizure, and what he learned by eliminating and slowly reintroducing technology.
How You Lose Reveals Who You Are
Everyone loses. Few people lose well. This essay explores why accepting responsibility, respecting the winner, and learning from defeat are the habits that build resilience, character, and lasting success. Losing is…
How to Create Dreams Without Deadlines
Learn a simple, pressure free process for creating dreams without deadlines so you can imagine a more fulfilling life without turning everything into another goal.
What Oliver Tree’s Life Teaches Us About Not Waiting to Become Ourselves
Oliver Tree’s life and death are a sobering reminder that life does not wait for us to feel ready. This reflection looks beyond fame and shock value to ask a deeper question: what parts of ourselves are we still hiding,…
Learning to Speak Again Before the Storm
I’m better at writing than speaking. After recovering from my seizures, I’m using video to practice speaking again, even with a thunderstorm rolling in. This is about recovery, travel, writing, and living a fulfilling…
The Next Phase of Life Is Not Retirement: Choosing What Fits Your Life Now
I was recently contacted by an old client about a new project. I had to say no. Not because I stopped working, but because my life has moved into a different phase.
It Works: A Simple Little Book About Making Dreams Come True
A warm review of R.H.J.'s It Works, a simple and optimistic little book about focusing on what you want and pursuing it with intention.
Your Wish Is Your Command: Book Review
My review of Your Wish Is Your Command by Kevin Trudeau, a big, repetitive, story driven personal development book that I plan to study and return to often.
What David Attenborough Teaches Us About Living a Fulfilling Life
David Attenborough’s 100 years of life offer a powerful lesson in curiosity, meaningful work, humility, and leaving a legacy that serves something larger than yourself.
No Words
A lyrical love poem about a love so large that ordinary words are not enough, and about the tenderness, awe, and silence that remain when feeling exceeds language.
Why Writing to the People You Love Matters More Than Building an Audience
Writing is not only about building an audience. It can also be a way to leave truth, love, memory, and meaning for the people closest to you.
Unplug Course Update Video
Watch Christopher Sherrod’s video update on finishing Unplug, including practical tips for reducing EMF exposure at work.
I Finished My EMF Course. Start With These 3 Changes Video
Watch Christopher Sherrod’s video on finishing Unplug , along with practical thoughts on reducing EMF exposure at work by measuring your space, testing where you sit, and charging devices away from your body.
Stop Optimizing Your Life and Start Living It
Stop optimizing every part of your life. A more fulfilling life does not come from endless tweaking, but from presence, clarity, and actually living.
The Digital Book Reading System: How I Organized 800 Books and Read More Thoughtfully
Organizing 800 Kindle books forced me to rethink how I read. This simple system replaces chaos with clarity and makes reading thoughtful again.
Why I’m Making the “Unplug” Course (Recovering from EMF Sensitivity) Video
Watch Christopher Sherrod explain why he made Unplug and how it grew from his experience with technology overload.
My Body Forced Me to Unplug (What EMF Did to Me)
Watch Christopher Sherrod share how constant technology exposure affected his body and why he changed his daily environment.
The Dented Ping Pong Ball and the Beauty of an Unplanned Life
What if the thing that disrupted your life is the very thing that can make it better? In this personal essay, I share how my cat’s dented ping pong ball became a lesson in embracing unexpected change. After a grand mal…
Jane Goodall’s Final Message: Purpose, Legacy, and Why You Should Never Quit
What Jane Goodall’s final message teaches us about purpose, legacy, and the quiet power of never giving up. A reflection on meaning, responsibility, and living fully.
The Uncomfortable Truth About Self-Help Critics and Gurus
An examination of the uncomfortable truth about self help critics and gurus, and how to separate useful guidance from performance, certainty, and empty promises of transformation.
How to Stay a Good Person in a Broken World
A personal essay about staying grounded, protecting your attention, and treating the people within reach well when the wider world feels corrupt, cruel, or overwhelming.
The Kybalion: Book Review
A plainspoken review of The Kybalion and why this short book on Hermetic principles is still referenced so often in spiritual and personal growth writing.
Why I’m Not Writing a Year in Review and What I’m Leaving Behind Instead
Why Christopher Sherrod is not writing a conventional year in review, and what leaving behind old habits, expectations, and unfinished identities can make possible instead.
Being Grateful Every Day Changed How I Live
I once waited for life to improve before feeling grateful. Living with seizures taught me a different way. This is how daily gratitude changed how I live.
The Power That Everyone Believes In
A reflection on the shared experience behind prayer, manifestation, spells, the placebo effect, and other names people give to the mysterious power they believe can change their lives.
The Rhythm Beneath Everything: What Living on the Beach Really Teaches You
A reflection on what living beside the beach teaches about rhythm, patience, attention, and the deeper patterns beneath ordinary days.
Quiet Generosity: The New Face of Philanthropy
Quiet Generosity: The New Face of Philanthropy
Why I Don’t Care About Slow Living or Fast Living — I Care About Feeling Fulfilled
Why Christopher Sherrod is less interested in whether life is slow or fast than in whether it feels fulfilled, meaningful, balanced, and aligned with what actually matters.
"The Let Them Theory” by Mel Robbins Helps You Let Go and Take Back Your Power
A review of Mel Robbins’s The Let Them Theory and its practical advice for releasing control, setting boundaries, and taking back your power in difficult relationships.
Remembering Maru: How a YouTube Cat Helped Me Heal
Remembering Maru, the beloved YouTube cat whose gentle presence offered comfort, companionship, and an unexpected source of healing during a difficult period.
Why Successful People Don’t Waste Time Arguing
Why successful people protect their time and energy by avoiding pointless arguments, accepting that debate rarely changes closed minds, and letting their actions speak louder than conflict.
Why Corp-bonics Is the Funniest—and Truest—Book About Corporate Life You'll Ever Read
A review of Corp bonics, a funny and perceptive book about corporate jargon, workplace culture, and the strange language people use to make ordinary business sound important.
Dr. Baxter D. Montgomery: Healing With Plants
Tribute to Dr. Baxter D. Montgomery, Heart Surgeon Who Healed With Plants and Purpose
The Soundtrack That Changed My Life
What Vangelis taught me about legacy, creative devotion, and making work that continues to matter long after its creator is gone.
The Hidden Cost of Cutting Corners: Why Quality Hosting Matters More Than You Think
The Hidden Cost of Cutting Corners: Why Quality Hosting Matters More Than You Think
The Happy Isles of Oceania by Paul Theroux – A Fascinating Journey Through the South Pacific
The Happy Isles of Oceania by Paul Theroux – A Fascinating Journey Through the South Pacific
Finding Balance: Why Extreme Mindsets Don't Lead to Entrepreneurial Success
Finding Balance: Why Extreme Mindsets Don't Lead to Entrepreneurial Success
Stop Giving Billionaires and Influencers So Much of Your Attention
An essay about taking back your attention from billionaires, influencers, and tech moguls, while learning to admire useful work without handing public figures authority over your life.
The Digital Canary: Arthur Firstenberg's Legacy of Electromagnetic Awareness
Tribute to Arthur Firstenberg Electromagnetic Awareness Pioneer
Success is Built in Baby Steps: Why Overnight Success is a Myth
Success is Built in Baby Steps: Why Overnight Success is a Myth
The Power of Letting Go: Why Not Caring What Others Think is One of Life's Greatest Lessons
One of the most transformative lessons I've learned in life is this: don't care too much about what others think of you. This realization has freed me from unnecessary stress, allowing me to focus on what truly…
My Bed is a Spaceship
I wrote this poem during a writing session from my book I’m currently writing about my electromagnetic hypersensitivity. It's about about my time being confined to my darkened bedroom recovering from a gran mal seziure…
Live Your Best Life
I wrote this poem to motivate a friend and thought my audience would like to read it.
Peace Broke Out Everywhere
A poem about peace
Forests Are For Rest
My love showed me a graphic that said Forests = For Rest and I really loved that. So I played with that concept in this poem.
Why Preparing for the Olympics and Building a Business Are Not the Same
I love the Olympics. I wrote this after the latest one because I was enjoying the Olympics myself. Everyone involved is amazing. Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony was the best one I've ever seen. Wow, just amazing. Back in…
Mastering Startup Equity - A Review of The Slicing Pie Handbook for Fair and Sustainable Partnerships
An Absolute Gem for Entrepreneurs