Everyone has experienced being in a mental hole to one degree or another. The feeling of being in a hole. The feeling like “Everything in my life is very closed in. I can’t see very far. I can’t move anywhere. Everything is just sort of stuck the way it is.” And it’s not easy to […]

The search for happiness seems like such a big part of our lives, such a central focus of concern. Am I happy? Am I happy enough? Am I going to be happy? Am I going to get more happy? Am I gonna lose my happiness? Sometimes it can seem like it’s an out-and-out struggle for

Well, I can hear the birds chirping for the first time, and this is sunrise in the city. I love being awake for the sunrise, and being able to see it happen. Maybe not quite coming out on my little phone camera here. But this change of light: it’s such a basic part of our

One of the classic balances we have to make is between novelty and routine. Now, so much in the world of self-development is about establishing better habits, better routines. These are the things we do over and over again, and based on the habits that we repeat every day, it builds who we are in

So if you’ve done a lot of escapism in your life, a lot of time-wasting, procrastination, avoiding facing the music, you’ve probably been told “Don’t do that. Stop escaping. Face reality. Face your responsibilities. Do what you have to do.” Basically good advice, but it’s very easy to say. Much easier said than done Of

I was hearing about a guy who just completely rejects the whole idea of self-improvement, self-development. To him this is taking away from being natural. It’s an unnatural way of being, a way to try to artificially change who we are. And to him, it’s better to be natural and guide our behaviour- instead of

Finding meaning is a big project, a long journey. Maybe even a lifetime project, you could say. And when there’s a feeling of meaninglessness, a feeling that things seem to have no purpose, there is no easy fix to the situation. There’s no way to suddenly wake up and suddenly have everything click. But it

What makes work meaningful? It’s something that we will spend a big chunk of our lives doing, so to have meaning in our lives, it seems like there has to be some kind of meaning in our work. Well, one definition of work that I like is that work is about creating value, creating something

I love wasting time. It’s so fun to do things that are a waste of time. And I think something that held me back for a long time is this feeling that I would have to convince myself that something was bad. Then I can replace it with something else. I would have to show

So there’s that initial blast of the new year when everything is fresh, January 1st, new year, blank page, anything can happen, and there’s that rush that comes from moving into the new year. And then, fairly soon after that, it fades into the January feeling. So here it is, that change from December to