Dare to walk toward your dreams. “What I am is good enough if only I would only be it openly.” — Carl Rogers From the time my mom gave me a copy of Little Women, I knew I wanted to be a writer. I was 8 when I started devouring books left and right. While …
Month: November 2020
The ‘Perfect Happiness Recipe’, According to a Buddhist
Focus on your feelings, not what you’re experiencing. The German-born Buddhist nun, Ayya Khema, has a solution to the happiness problem. Imagine an experience that made you happy. Maybe it’s the first time you had fallen in love. Happiness curled your toes when the object of your desire walked into a room and you caught …
The Mental Hacks You Need to Level Up Your Self-Control
4 exercises that can help. Think of something you intended to do but ended up doing something else. Maybe you intended to speak calmly to your partner. Instead, you ended up throwing verbal punches. Maybe you intended to build a serious relationship with someone. Instead, you ended up going to late-night parties every night. Conjure …
One Book Explains How to Make Decisions Really Well
Choose enlargement over happiness. “Ask yourself of every dilemma, every choice, every relationship, every commitment, or every failure to commit: Does this choice diminish me, or enlarge me?” — James Hollis, in What Matters Most Most of us, most of the time, make decisions based on what makes us happy at the moment. What our …