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A Bizarrely Unexpected Way to Become More Grateful in Life
03 October 2022
A Bizarrely Unexpected Way to Become More Grateful in Life

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...

The Sweet Relief of Finding Out Your Significant Other Doesn’t Have a Brain Tumor
26 September 2022
The Sweet Relief of Finding Out Your Significant Other Doesn’t Have a Brain Tumor

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...

How to Make Your 100 Days Left in 2022 Count
19 September 2022
How to Make Your 100 Days Left in 2022 Count

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...

How To Feel Like a Billion Bucks on a Monday Morning
12 September 2022
How To Feel Like a Billion Bucks on a Monday Morning

(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...

Don’t Just Live Longer, Live Wider and Deeper
05 September 2022
Don’t Just Live Longer, Live Wider and Deeper

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%...

Live Your Worst Life Lumbar Pillow from Hell
29 August 2022
The Importance of Knowing Yourself at Your Most Horrible Worst

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...

How Will You Remember Your Life?
22 August 2022
How Will You Remember Your Life?

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...

How to Procrastinate Like a Pro
15 August 2022
How to Procrastinate Like a Pro

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...

5 Cheap and Cheerful Ways to Become a Happier Person Overnight
08 August 2022
5 Cheap and Cheerful Ways to Become a Happier Person Overnight

Did I have you at cheap, or was it the cheerful part that grabbed you? It doesn’t matter if you’re a cheapskate or a cheerleader... all that matters is that you want to join me on this mission of dying happy. “Wait, what,” you ask? “Who said anything about dying?” Oh! That part. Since everything...

Giving Two You Know What's in Life
01 August 2022
Giving Two S***s About Your Life

Want to know the difference between alive people and astonishingly alive people (you know — those astonishingly alive people who seem to have more passion, fulfillment, happiness, and better hair than the rest of us)? Astonishingly alive people give two shits. Not just one, but two. How astonishing your life will be is pretty much...

A Eulogy for My Dad (Who’s Not Dead Yet)
25 July 2022
A Eulogy for My Dad (Who’s Not Dead Yet)

It’s my Dad’s 85th birthday today and although he is still very much alive and kicking, I took the liberty of writing his eulogy. He’s going to wake up today (jeez, I sure hope he wakes up today or this post will be one hell of a bummer), hunch over his laptop with his cup...

The Power of the Pint-Sized Pause
18 July 2022
The Power of the Pause

Hold up, Type A friend — don’t go heading for the hills at the mere mention of a break in your action. The hustle and bustle will still be waiting for you when you return from the breath-catching hiatus as a Highly Productive Member of Society. (I sound all judgy but I am a card-carrying...

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