Self Improvement

Develop a mindset to outlast, achieve, and build the best you — “Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.” — Mark Twain As you‘ve likely inferred, Mark Twain’s statement above is metaphorical. …

#1: Constant busyness — Many people are a lot more anxious than they’d like to admit. This is understandable for a couple reasons… There’s a lot of shame and stigma associated with emotional health struggles like anxiety. …

Too much education is just procrastination. — College still has some relevance. Especially if you want to become a doctor, lawyer, or engineer. But the relevance of college is slowly decaying as online education takes over. Universities haven’t exactly done themselves any favors by continuing to make tuition fees higher. I mean, is a 6-figure MBA really…

Fact-check your thoughts. — I’ve never been to a better museum than the Louvre in Paris. The MET gives it a run — but Louvre still edges it out. It’s the full package. What surprised me most was how underwhelming the Mona Lisa is. A far more impressive painting by Da Vinci is “The…

A bit of reverse psychology. — Your sense of time changes when you’re desperate for oxygen. I learned this the hard way while swimming in college. Our coach forced us to do hypoxic training — limiting our breaths per lap. Waves of fire would shoot through my chest as I surged towards the wall for a…

And it was a good thing. — My husband and I got into an argument the other night. The hows, whats, and whys don’t matter so much. What stood out to me about twenty minutes later when I was stewing on the couch, rage-eating peanut butter like the feral woman I am, and watching Parks and Rec…

Make sure your opinion of yourself is your own. — A young woman told me firmly she had low self-esteem. She said it as though it was a body part — essential to her being, like lungs or a heart. When I asked her how she knew this she told me a boy she lived with in foster care, who…