I have invited my friend Mary for tea on Friday. On Wednesday, I find myself in my home office plucking a book off the bookshelf and deciding that I ...
Can you think back on a time when you knew you “should” do something but you just didn’t do it? If you’re anything like me, this happens more often ...
“The goal in life isto find and fully use our own gifts” The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level by Gay Hendricks (p. ...
An incision on my lower right back, marked by a neat row of straight black stitches, is healing day by day. The doctor’s orders are to take it easy ...
Many years ago, a friend of ours who had done quite well financially quipped, only somewhat tongue in cheek, “Money may not buy me happiness, but I ...
In their book Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength, Roy Baumeister and John Tierney include a chapter they call The Perfect Storm of ...
Below is a fictitious but fairly typical list of New Year’s Resolutions: Exercise seven days a week (well, okay, maybe six) Stop buying stuff I don ...
A lot has been written about gratitude, which, through the studies of such scholars as Robert Emmons, the author of thanks!: How the new science of ...
The other day I plucked off the shelf and dusted off my weekly calendar for 2008. It stands in a long line of failed attempts to keep some semblance ...