Slammed with work? Got a to-do list with dozens of items? Your boss wants you to complete this stuff in half an hour?
What if, even though you have so much going on, you could relax now?
For many people, housing is their biggest expense. That’s true for me too and it was especially true when I lived in San Francisco. In the Bay Area, I spent an outrageous amount of money on rent. My coworkers in the Bay Area all did; San Francisco is the most expensive…
If you set high standards for yourself, you might encounter a nagging feeling some evenings. It’s the feeling that you did not accomplish enough on this particular day.
This feeling can express itself as sadness: I wish I could have done more.
You know what to do, but you don’t do it. Why not?
Just in the past two weeks, people have told me:
A reader asked a question that I’d like to answer publicly.
This summer, she’ll do a corporate internship, and not too long after that she’ll graduate. She asks (shared with permission):
[Starting a career at this…
I’m not sure why, but I often notice myself assuming that everybody but me has things figured out.
Everybody else can handle stressful situations well; it’s just that I can’t. Nobody else feels like a wreck when they don’t sleep…
Some jobs are crappy. Whether they’re crappy in general or just a bad fit for you doesn’t matter.
Maybe the hours are bad or the boss is horrible or the commute from your home is way too long. It doesn’t matter. If the…
Is your life an endless series of exhausting sprints followed by periods when you frantically try to rest before the next sprint starts?
It can be oh-so-tempting to push harder when the finish line is in sight.
Have you ever experienced the following?
One of my favorite ways to help people is to encourage them to save for retirement. Or better yet, to save and invest to work towards financial independence. But when I recommend saving, people often tell me they’re not…