Goal: Life Life goals all well and good, but what if they are more of a ruse to feel unworthy than a reason to get up in the morning? If you are in a privileged position and think you can change the…
The Secret of Life… We make things very complicated. Seek purpose, follow passions, pine for secret knowledge. In its fundamental basics, however, there is little to know about life. Except for this: Life goes on… until it doesn’t. One day, something will get you.…
The Perfect Schedule: Make Time Supposedly, if you want to get something done, you have to put it on your schedule. If you schedule everything about your life, you will get on with it.
Live Your Life, Not Someone Else’s Schedule Of course we would be fascinated by successful people’s schedules and habits and … even the things they eat. Examples, Not Blueprints We are social primates, after all. As such, it’s monkey-see-monkey-do, especially when we see what is being done…
Don’t Listen To Your (Online) Feelings. It should be obvious in this age of outrage-fueled social media. Unfortunately, it is also a time of personal truths. The personal truths that aren’t things we learn or feel about ourselves. “Personal truths” that are just what people say…
There’s Magic in Beginning. And Misery. The (supposed) Goethe quote that beginnings are imbued with a magic and power is a nice one. Certainly you’ve felt it too; how good it feels to get started. If everything is going well and you get going nicely, it’s…
Don’t Seek Your True Self We keep looking inside, trying to change our attitudes and thinking. Coaxed and coerced by the pressure of self-help and pop psychology advice, we seek our true inner self. What a stupid enterprise. Introspection is good. Learning how you react in…
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