Call it a resolution.
Second thoughts
From Bits
Second-Place Winners
They reject homophobia and the notion that being vulnerable, sensitive or soft is “not a guy thing.”
Style Your Adulthood
The weight of expectations is a terrible thing that keeps one up at night like an alarm clock that cannot be silenced.
Notes For A New Day
Reminders, mantras and kindling for personal revolutions.
Breaking Busyness
Maybe you’re addicted to always doing something. I’m right there with you. Here’s what I’m doing to stop myself.
What It Means To Live A Life Of Less
A stripped-down life may not be for everyone, but do you need everything you have to live well? Think about it, there’s a lot you can live without, a lot you can skip without suffering for it. But when you’re used to a particular lifestyle, it is easy to believe that your happiness, maybe even your existence, is dependent on the comforts you have surrounded yourself with. The daily assault of materialism in the world we live in does not help either. If you’re not being asked to buy something, you’re being asked to replace something you own (which is basically…
Practise Letting Go By Giving Things Away
The things we keep may be a reflection of who we are and what we carry on the inside. If this theory is true, and there’s some merit to it, we may be able to teach ourselves how to release people, anger, disappointment and hurt by giving away things in five steps. 1. Take stock of the things you own. This is a simple inventory of stuff, but with a twist: for every item inventoried, create a label that states how you came to own the item, how it is useful and what would happen if you no longer have…
Are Your Life Goals Flexible?
From where I stand, doing too much is clearly connected to the absolutely natural norm of setting goals for ourselves. Sometimes, fueled by the flawed perception of achievement that convinces us to take on far more than we can handle (or equally bad, spend our lives hunting for breakthroughs), we set impractical goals that do not take our limitations into consideration. Everyone wants to ‘find purpose’, but we never want to accept that the most effectual life we could live may be a simple, unglamorous one. I’m not going to tell you how to define your success (even though we all…