The myth of the restful vacation
...Maybe the answer is to spend more time doing nothing the rest of the year...
SuperBetter - Recommended Book
...Being gameful means bringing the psychological strengths you naturally display when you play games—such as optimism, creativity, courage, and determination—to your real life. It means having the curiosity and openness to play with different strategies to discover what works best. It means building up the resilience to tackle tougher and tougher challenges with greater and greater success...
11 Expert Tips to Stop Being a People Pleaser and Start Doing You
...Why am I always seeking validation? Why don’t people like me? How can I stop being a people pleaser?...
Sloppy Joes
...Ellie's version of the classic sloppy joe trims away some of the fat but maintains the flavor of this traditional dish...
A simple way to unplug when you think you can’t
...Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you...
7 Proven Health Benefits of Dark Chocolate
...Eating dark chocolate with high cocoa content in moderation can deliver antioxidants and minerals and may help protect you from heart disease...
The Most Precious Resource is Agency
...Agency is the capacity to act. More subtly: An individual’s life can continue, with a certain inertia, that will lead them on to the next year or decade...
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
...the mere consciousness of an engagement will sometimes worry a whole day...
The Algebra of Wealth - Recommended Book
...Wealth = Focus + (Stoicism x Time x Diversification)...
The Six Stages of Cleaning Out
...Selling your parents’ house? Here’s what to expect...
Roman-Style Chicken
...Recipe courtesy of Giada De Laurentiis..
Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys
...The downfalls of trying to control what is not ours to control...
Bertrand Russell: On Avoiding Foolish Opinions
...Want to steer clear of foolishness? Bertrand Russell has some timeless advice that can help...
“Does it work?”
...Reality might not care what you want...
Does a 529 Plan Affect Financial Aid?
...529 assets can impact college financial aid packages, but there are nuances...
The Stuff of Thought - Recommended Book
...In fairness to Mr. Einstein, his theory says that time is relative to the inertial frame in which it is measured, not that it is subjective. The human experience of time is, of course, subjective, and it speeds up or slows down depending on how demanding, varied, and pleasant an interval is...
W. Edwards Deming’s 14 Points for Management
...the Deming Model of Quality Management is a core concept on implementing total quality management (TQM), is a set of management practices to help companies increase their quality and productivity...
Slow Cooker Cheeseburger Soup
...Use your slow cooker to make this easy cheeseburger soup. Don't skip the toppings - they make the soup!..
The Physics of Relationships: Going Positive and Going First
...“For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction"...
The Tao of Cal
...I thought it might be fun to try to summarize essentially every major idea I discuss in one short primer...
