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 [...]
We finally watched Hamilton. It is amazing and I'm struggling to work when I could be listening to the soundtrack. However, here's what really gets me. While there is a lot of art around us, I am struck by the feat of this production created by Lin-Manuel Miranda. To put the words to music in [...]
We cannot achieve our objectives without working hard ourselves. And yet, we will not achieve in a vacuum, without support. The story of the child who's teacher saw and fostered a skill or desire; the adult who now recognizes that without that teacher she never would have followed her passion. The parent who encouraged his [...]
You are a young child again. Imagine balancing blocks as high as possible before they fall over. Then imagine fitting those shapes into the box where they only fit in their specific right spot. Which seems more certain, less precarious? I was recently introduced to the concept of work-life-fit as opposed to work-life-balance. Cali Yost [...]
I think there is immense value in creating blocks of time for different projects outside of your normal daily routine. Like many, my normal work days are filled with different tasks - one thing to the next throughout the day. Being able to step away and dive into one thing for multiple days feels tremendously [...]
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