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If you’re going to do anything interesting in the world, criticism is an unavoidable fact. The trick to navigating the i... Read more

You can read entire books on productivity, dozens of blog posts, and implement half a dozen different productivity syste... Read more

We’re endlessly looking at how others do things, for inspiration and ideas … but we end up wanting to try those things t... Read more

I highly recommend that, if you haven’t yet, you develop the daily habit of reflection, in your own way. It could have p... Read more

There’s a part of today’s consumerist world that drives us to want more, buy more, act on our impulses, hoard, spend to ... Read more

There are days in everyone’s life when they feel overwhelmed by the stresses and tasks and projects and phone calls and ... Read more

If your life is full of stress, like mine once was, there are some simle things you can do to get your life to a more ma... Read more

As grown ups, we’ve lost this childlike sense of life. And that’s actually a sad thing. It’s not just about happiness an... Read more

I used to think, as many people do, that if we’re unhappy with ourselves, we’ll be driven to get better. And if we were ... Read more

Think about how busy our lives have become. Think about how distracted we’ve become. Think about how many things needles... Read more

Everyone is trying to look good in the eyes of others. Everyone stresses out about how they look, how they’re perceived,... Read more

The next time you experience frustration, just notice it. Just be mindful that you’re unhappy with something or someone,... Read more

One of the keys to happiness — as well as productivity and effectiveness at work — is finding work you love, that you’re... Read more

One problem with our complicated lives these days is that many of us never find time to spend alone, in peace, without b... Read more

If you’re on Facebook looking at your friends’ food pictures or vacation photos, that will shape your reality. If you’re... Read more

Most of us feel bad when we make mistakes, beat ourselves up about it, feel like failures, get mad at ourselves. Yet mis... Read more

Why is it that we cannot break the bad habits that stand in our way, crushing our desires to live a healthy life, be fit... Read more

Pretty much all of us experience frustration on a daily (or even hourly) basis. We get frustrated by other people, by o... Read more

It’s not that changing bad habits is impossible. But if we are so discouraged we don’t try, we will never change them. T... Read more

We think we need to improve ourselves and our current situation, because we’re dissatisfied (at least a little bit) with... Read more