My One Word for 2023: Alacrity: Cheerful Readiness for 6 Aspects of Life
How to Use Your Word to Plan a Fantastic Year A brief history of my one word through the years: 2018: Steadfast 2019: Augmentation 2020: Beyond 2021: Cognitive 2022: Anti-Fragile 2023: Alacrity! I’ve been picking a focus word for 6 years now. Every year, it’s been a...
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Sensitive Writers! We Need to Hear From You [A Note to Myself]
You weren’t wondering, but this is where I’ve been... I’ve been busy helping many wonderful people get their incredible book ideas out into the world. I've been busy NOT writing for my blog and audience. It's time to change that. The writing work has been great, but...
Across Canada by Train: Step Outside of Time with This 4-Day Odyssey
The Complete 2022 Guide to The Best Trip in Canada by Train Jump on board The Canadian, a trip to Canada by train from Toronto to Vancouver, and enter a different time. As we rumbled along the track, joyful contentment radiated outward from our very souls. It’s hard...
9 Reasons to Stop Breathing Through Your Mouth
Why your nose is the best thing on your face Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, by James Nestor should be your next read. It will show you why you need to stop breathing through your mouth. Add this book to your reading list right now. It’s my favorite for 2022,...
It takes Guts Not to Care About Every Disgustingly Bad Thing
Embrace the hopeful power of focusing on your one thing instead I don’t know about you, but the bad things that happen in the world pluck my heart right out of my chest. When you hear of yet another school shooting… When yet another life ends before it even has a...
3 Remarkably Reasonable Ways To Curb Your Sunk Cost
The Key to finally taking back your time by exercising sunk cost “Do you really want to do the 5k today?” I asked my wife. She smiled back at me, “I was hoping you wouldn’t want to do it! No, I really don’t.” “Oh, that’s such a relief. I’m not up for it at all!” I...
It’s Okay to Be Terrible at Something: This Is How to Push Past Suckyness
How to get better at anything even if you suck at first Get comfortable being uncomfortable. Fail forward. Pick yourself up and try and try again. These well-known clichés are true, but painful to follow. It sucks to be uncomfortable. It sucks to fail. It sucks to get...
See Your Life in Weeks: Is This a Depressingly Bad Idea?
How to Look Beyond Your Life in Weeks to Imagine a Better Future I’m 33 years old. That means I’ve lived roughly 1716 weeks, 12,012 days, and 288,288 hours. I recently completed a calculation of my life in weeks. Each colored cell in the spreadsheet represents a week...
This Is What Happened When I Meditated for Two Hours 🧠
A Simple 7-Step Process for Unlocking The Powerful Computer Inside Your Head “Just let me figure it out!” My brain was practically screaming at me to hand over the reins and let it do what it does best. I was writing a book, but didn’t know where I wanted to go with...
40 Books Read in 2022: Here Are Our 3 Favorites
Why We Launched Into 2022 by Reading Over 1.5 Million Words We’ve been reading a ton this year. Combined, according to my extremely inaccurate estimates, we’ve read just about 1,600,000 words (40,000 words per book X 40 books read). Miranda has taken on gigantuan...
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