Much of our days are spent with busywork or distractions. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, busywork and distractions can be lovely ways to spend our time. But sometimes we want to use our time powerfully and effectively. Let’s look at ways to work with increased impact. Imagine a protocol that you followed that would…
How Industry Leaders Manage Their Time
Focusing on your primary responsibilities, like driving sales and moving your company forward, can be a business owner or leader struggle. Because of this, it’s crucial to manage your time well. Does this mean you need to get everything done? Nope. That’s not realistic. Instead, at the end of the day, you feel accomplished and satisfied without…
How to Create a Healthy Home to Reduce Your Anxiety
We can’t ignore how our homes affect our minds and bodies. Our mental and physical well-being are inevitably affected by the environment we live in. A lack of natural light or an overly cluttered space can make you anxious or even depressed. We want a home that makes us feel safe, in control, and calm….
Approaching Life With a Beginner’s Mind
A lot of our troubles could be solved by one simple practice. A lot of joy could be found with the same practice. And it is simple: practicing seeing life with a beginner’s mind. I’m stealing this, of course, from Zen Buddhism’s shoshin and Shunryu Suzuki’s “Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind,” and I’ve written about it…
The Benefits of Fasting from Novelty
Whether you’re a homebody who seeks comfort or a thrill-seeker who thrives on new opportunities, most of us find the idea of novelty beneficial in some way. Our brains are attracted to pretty things, new possibilities, exciting adventures, or even something as simple as a new smell or sound. It’s a break from the ordinary,…
World Happiness Report Reveals More Sadness and More Kindness During COVID-19
When bad things happen—wars, pandemics, shootings—the optimists of the world tend to turn their attention to all the goodness that still exists: the heroic fighters, the frontline workers, the givers and the helpers. But are we just deluding ourselves? Not if the 2022 World Happiness Report is any indication. Although the pandemic has certainly caused division, there…
Are We Living the Dream?
When we were paying off our debts it felt like forever. We went as deeply frugal as it was possible to go and it still took us two and a half years to pay off the consumer debt that we had. At that time, we only had an interest only mortgage and then we had…
The Profound Healing Effects of Joy, Beauty, and Hope
Shen Yun Performing Arts is the world’s premier classical Chinese dance and music company. According to its website, it was established in New York by elite artists inspired by a shared mission—to bring back the lost world of traditional Chinese culture. The performance is meant to entertain and uplift audiences, yet many have reported an…
Why We Need Our Intuition
We’ve all had that feeling—an instant knowing that something isn’t right. Whether in a business deal or when a friend hasn’t called in a while, somewhere deep inside us we have a knowing, and we can’t explain why. That is intuition, and it has been with us, buried deep in the limbic system for a…
Turning Mundane Tasks Into Acts of Compassion
Whether you are naturally curious or easily distracted, you’ll probably agree that it can be challenging at times to focus on the normal, everyday tasks that make up life. Every time we start one task, we feel the pull of a dozen other tasks waiting on our to-do list. Or we don’t feel quite in…
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