Weekly Newsletter
Tag: living well
Week #45, 2024
The point is in the struggle. The lessons are in the struggle. The wisdom is in the struggle.
Week #43, 2024
Be the kind of person that it is easy to be friends with. Be generous, be helpful. Invest time in your friends, especially as you get past your 20's.
Week #42, 2024
I think one of the most valuable things you can telegraph to young people is that you lovingly have high expectations.
Week 40, 2024
Regardless of how bad or good you think your life is, it is true that you are better off than nearly everyone that has ever existed. You take for granted, every day, things that would put all the riches in Ancient Egypt to shame.
Week #38, 2024
I think that committing to a Daily Action, for a period of time, is the best way to change the trajectory of your life.
Week 19, 2024
Maintenance isn't fun, usually, and often seems like a waste of time. But if you stop thinking of these things as your possessions, and start thinking of yourself of a caretaker, the relationship becomes richer and more meaningful. And it also helps sort the wheat from the chaff with regard to your stuff. If you aren't willing to have a relationship with it, it probably owns you.
Week 14, 2024
Our daily lives are full of routines that provide opportunities to build community. You have to notice and then act.
Week 42, 2023
It's ok to just acknowledge that something sucks...And when a friend is in a tight spot, you don't have to always provide a solution...I always want to find solutions. But... not every problem can be solved...Nothing has a "happy ending" at the very end, and all day, every day, the universe is being desperately unfair to someone or another.
Week 27, 2023
Your path is your path
And while it may be informed by the good and bad choices of all those who came before you, you (and you only) bear responsibility for your path.
And so own it, make peace with it, rip the band-aids off, look your weaknesses and shortcomings in the eye and just keep growing.