Astronauts have reported feeling ready to go home and be surrounded by more humans after about four months in space. After four months of quarantine, or for some at least being aware of quarantine even if they haven't stuck with it, and with the number of infections only increasing, how are you feeling? The thing [...]
I've heard from a number of people who have started their own businesses who feel that they became successful only because, or when, they shut the other doors. Whether in actuality or just mentally, they made sure there was no other option, no plan B. In other words, they did not start their business thinking: [...]
If you could take a sabbatical and there was no Covid, what would you do? No strings attached...just time and reasonably sufficient funds. Would it be pure play? Or a craft you are passionate about? Or work that brings you great joy and has true meaning to you? Would you spend time with family or [...]
Pavement makes our travel smoother. A gravel road is still a road, but travel will be more difficult. Where in your life can you pave the way to operate more smoothly? Where do you enjoy the adventure of a dirt road? And where are you continuing to travel along an unmaintained washboard miserable path and [...]
What would happen if there was a fundamental basic income and people didn't feel the need to work in an environment they felt was unsafe? How many people really have to work in an environment they feel is unsafe? What other options could they find for income or a different way of life? Change is [...]
Do you ever worry about being too happy? Do you not want to enjoy it because you're just waiting for things to turn around and go wrong again? I do this all the time. There is a concept I've heard in a variety of different contexts that basically suggests that we are only comfortable with [...]
You can spend time beating yourself up for not doing what you should be doing. But what if your should do's are not really what you want deep down? Perhaps it is an ideal but not at this moment in time? Sometimes we can get wrapped up into trying to figure out why we're not [...]
Creating space in our lives to day dream, get a little bored, have nothing specific to focus on, allows for time to be creative and to solve problems. Do you fear these moments? Do you try to schedule them out? Are you thinking right now : "easy for you to say, there's no way I [...]
An excuse can be offered as justification or an apology according to Merriam Webster's online. An excuse to do or not to do something maybe entirely legitimate, but it's what comes next that's most important. I can no longer go swimming with my Master's group at 5:30am. Does that mean I cannot still get up [...]
In 2018, about a year and a half before the first Coronavirus case was discovered, a group of insurance companies got together to offer insurance "for businesses, and perhaps even for countries-that would pay out as soon as an epidemic reached a certain threshold." How are those companies and countries faring now that we are [...]
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