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I'm going to ask you to do a little thought experiment with me. Think of your dearest friend. Don't just gloss over this. Really take a couple seconds to call their face to mind. Think about why you're friends and why you care about this person.
Now think about a time when they...
You may not know this about me, but I'm a giant nerd, truly a scientist at heart. That means that when I got really serious about figuring out what makes for a happy life, I delved fully into the science of happiness by reading, learning, thinking about, and testing out everything I could...
Imagine that you have a dog. In this case, it’s a big, mean, nasty dog (not your cuddly pet). We’re sitting around the table eating dinner, and this dog comes up begging for food. Just one little bite is all it wants. You give it a bite, and it goes away...
Until tomorrow. The...
There have been a couple times over the course of my career when I’ve found myself stuck and miserable. After all these years, I don’t remember exactly what it was about that first job that wasn’t quite working for me. I remember that it sounded perfect on paper, that I was...
Many people spend 40 - 50 hours per week at work. That's 80 - 100 THOUSAND hours over a career. If you're not engaged or functioning at your peak, or if you're on the brink of exhaustion and burn out, you're having a suboptimal life experience.
The answer isn't necessarily to make a...
I don’t know about you, but I am FIRED up for a new year. Maybe you’re not, and that’s ok. You might be hitting yet another wall in the face of omicron and winter weather, or maybe you’re yelling “Heck, yeah, let’s do this!” right...
“I have 8000 questions,” I said to an old friend who I hadn’t seen in quite some time. “Shoot,” he replied.
After countless hours and at least that many questions volleyed back and forth, many of them hard, tangential, deep, personal, whimsical, or out...
Christmas and Kwanzaa are right around the corner (and Hanukkah snuck right past me). Maybe you love this time of year…and maybe you don’t. Maybe you’re like a lot of folks who find it quite challenging. Personally, I don’t holiday like a lot of my fellow...
My mom and I are close. I’ve always adored her but, when I was younger, I scoffed a bit at (what I used to call) her Zen-Buddha-karma hippie interests. Like meditation. She was into yoga before it was cool, so I was exposed to it as a teen in the mid-90s. I didn’t mind yoga as...
By now, you've probably heard abysmal statistics about employee engagement (only 1/3 of employees are fully engaged in work) and presenteeism (physically present at work but mentally checked out), which brings with it staggering costs in real dollars. Fortunately, we can...
How many times have you said, “I feel bad”? How many times have you been asked “What’s wrong?” or told “Don’t be sad/mad/worried/_____”?
About a million, right?
And therein lies a problem.
We are taught from early...
If you want to maximize happiness and cultivate more inner peace, expect less.
As a teenager, I was stoked to watch An American Werewolf in Paris. I just knew it was going to be edgy and scary - a cinematic masterpiece! What it was, however, was a giant let...
