Dearest Grim, This is your busy time of year, what with it being the Day of the Dead and all, so I’ll try to keep this short. I’m Jodi (yes—that’s me! Your #1 Fangirl!) and I’ve become rather obsessed with you and your work. What a role-reversal, right? You’re the one who usually stalks people...
I’m such a hypocrite! I know, I know… Just last week I was all, “say yes to pretty much everything in life, including kidnappers with quality candy in the back of their vans.” But life is full of contradictions, so thanks for yin-yanging with me here while I extol the virtues of Big Fat No’s....
Brace yourself, you People-Pleaser, you: in a world consumed with putting up healthy boundaries and learning how to say an emphatic, unapologetic No, I’m going to recommend the opposite. Today’s post is about living a life of YES (and as a card-carrying People Pleaser myself, I so hope you say, “I do” and keep reading)....
Fun fact: October 13th is World Zombie Day! Before you think, “how amusing” and then plan to move on with your living-dead-kind-of-day, hold up. I IMPLORE YOU TO TAKE THIS QUIZ. It’s very possible that World Zombie Day was created in your honor, and we can’t have you walking around all dead out there, can...
Unless you’ve been in a long-term coma, you’ve likely heard that gratitude is all the rage. And it ain’t no passing fancy (like dill pickle as the food flavoring fad de jour — surely you’ve seen pickle-flavored everything out there?). Nope — gratitude is fad-free. It keeps popping up in the well-being research as an...
Hot tip! If you’re feeling like your loved one has been taking you for granted, go and get an MRI of your head, and watch how much they shower you with love and attention and “holy shit please don’t die we haven’t even gone to the Croatian coast together yet” energy while you wait for...
You, all wide-eyed and defiant looking: “Wait, what? 100 days left of 2022? Are you sure it’s not 100 days into the year, and not 100 left?” Me: “Keep with the program, Sparky. Time’s ticking and there ain’t nothing you can do to stop it, other than die.” (I don’t normally sound like a crotchety old...
(I was originally going to say a “million bucks” but what with inflation and all, a million is just too measly these days. The billions are where it’s at.) Mondays are the worst, and people in white lab coats have proven it. Researchers have identified what’s known as Blue Monday Phenomenon (that feeling you get...
Most of us want to live longer (as long as we have our marbles intact), and we talk a lot about how to blow more and more candles out on our birthday cakes. We’ve even talked together here about how to live to 100 — and some of us are actually thinking about adopting the "80%...
I talk a lot about “living your best life” and getting to know your “best possible self” — all very life-coachey aphorisms that deserve to be embroidered onto decorative lumbar pillows. Yep, helping us make the most of our 4,000 Mondays while we’re lucky to be above ground (time’s ticking, friends!)... that shapes my own “best...
Psychology is the best. What other school of thought explains why we prefer things we made ourselves (the IKEA Effect), why we think we’re better than all the other losers out there (the Lake Wobegon Effect), and why there’s always a deadbeat on your team who contributes less than you do (social loafing)? Today’s “Positive...
I’m not here to tell you how to stop procrastinating, I’m here to help you do it better. (I’d make a terrible addiction counsellor, wouldn’t I? “You don’t need to stop taking heroin, you just need to sprinkle meth into the mix every now and then. Go get ‘em, tiger!”) I think most of us...
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