During this pandemic, have you considered how much you used to take for granted that is no longer certain? I think this sentiment is being shared widely. But are we truly internalizing it? Will this notion last after the pandemic? And what would it look like if it does? One could take this idea and [...]
Have you ever tried something for the first time and immediately called in help when it didn't work? This happens all the time to me, but here is a recent example to explain what I mean. I use a software program to create documents. I download the documents and there is a place at the [...]
We are interconnected in ways that we don't realize. Your health can impact my health and vice versa. Yes, we can do many things independently. We can assert our right to act on our own and to make our own decisions. But at some point, we want a line to be drawn so that your [...]
One powerful way to create habit change is to tell yourself that you are no longer the type of person that does the old habit. You could choose one day to identify as 'healthy' and in your mind, if a healthy person does not choose the cheesecake over the fruit salad, making the decision to [...]
Learning comes in different levels. Reading a book is educational, but you might read thought-provoking non-fiction and find it simple and enjoyable, or you could be reading a book to study for the MCAT and find it utterly frustrating and difficult. You can learn to garden and find it enjoyable, but learning a new job [...]
I heard once about a study in which people made decisions that were better for their future selves (at some expense to their current selves) when they were looking at a picture of them modified to represent what they might look like when they are older. Presumably this is because we have difficulty taking care [...]
I keep expecting someone to hand me the manual for how to lead my life. Do you have yours? Can I borrow it? The longer I live, the less likely it seems that the world will hand me that manual I have been waiting for. I have been spending time learning about personal finances. What [...]
Introduction I usually downplay the fact that I wrote a book. It’s not exactly a best seller, and it is not a long masterpiece that took years of my life to write. Indeed, very few people have read it and probably few ever will. It’s also easy to be on the other side, and to [...]
We are all influenced by others, but you choose who and how much. It might be healthy to look up to someone who is a few years further along doing something that you want to do, to learn from them and be inspired to do well. It might be healthy to look at someone who [...]
What is your goal? How do you want to get there? We must continually revisit these questions. It is easy to compare ourselves to others, or to start chasing the shiny object or getting side tracked by some other different path that sounds fun in the moment. But if it doesn't get you closer to [...]
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