The winter holidays are a great time to reevaluate life. The short days pull me indoors and the prolonged break from work gets me thinking about things I don't normally have energy or clarity to consider. This year I've found myself looking back at a year…
Much has been written about creating effective and achievable New Year's resolutions, and still people fail. They set goals that are reasonable, measurable, and create a support system around them to help achieve their dreams, yet people consistently fail to accomplish the goals they set for themselves in…
You put it off and off and eventually the pile is too embarrassing to even look at. Some tasks (like the laundry example), do have to be completed eventually, but it comes with resentment and extra stress. Some tasks don't and are forever on the todo list.…
I ditched my second brain. It wasn't a match for my first brain, and I couldn't handle the differences.…
In your weakest hour, drunk and peckish, you need to be able to say "no" to the pizza menu on your fridge. You need to get to the core of why you are trying to make a change in your life.…
Pictured: having fun plating a potato salad. I mentioned this in my previous post, and since I'm partially out of it from my second vaccine dose, I figured I could expand on the issues you may face when trying to lose weight. At the beginning of the year,…
I was told that everything needed to get done before work. But I'm a programmer, and so it's considered normal to stay up extremely late working on projects. You can't stay up late and wake up early, but I definitely tried.…