A One-Sheet Perspective to save for when you need it most We blame a lot of our inability to stick to habits on being unmotivated. And even though we know motivation is fickle, it can be hard to develop the discipline we need for consistency without a little motivation. This…

It’s 8:44pm and I’m pacing my living room. Back and forth. Back and forth. 4,944 steps. Damn. That means I still need 5,056 more steps? Is that right? I’ve never been very good at math. I know 10,000 steps a day is a stupid marketing number that doesn’t have any true scientific health benefits. It’s not significantly more…

How I am cultivating a more present year It seems like time speeds up as we age. A year passes by in a blink — what even happened in 2021? As a child, a year was forever. …

My supervisor zoomed me for a quick afternoon chat. “Do you have a minute to talk about your raise?” I was expecting this. My company had separated performance reviews from raises and informed everyone their annual inflation raise was coming in January instead of March. In the wake of the…

Put down your phone and embrace the discomfort. You are not thinking your most important thoughts. “You become what you think about all day long” — Ralph Waldo Emerson As a writer, I spend a lot of time staring at a blank page. Sometimes I just don’t have anything to…

I have never tried Marijuana. I am confident I would have dabbled with it if given the opportunity in my younger years. But I was a product of a sheltered environment which led to a complete lack of access. …

A return to honest story-telling — I have missed in my writing the thing I love most about reading. I keep putting words to the page in an act of discipline. As if the forceful effort to do this thing I am convinced I love will somehow provide a favorable return. But I have missed the…

7 weeks in — is it worth it? — Despite trying for nearly a decade, I haven't made any progress in my health and fitness goals. …

Not Starting is Guaranteeing Something Much Worse than Failure. — I have been stuck in a job I don’t love for the last 5 years, but I have been too afraid to try anything else. Fear of failure is keeping me from pursuing my goals, but my inaction is guaranteeing something much worse than failure. There is a great fallacy…