You can learn a lot from reading books, but the most vivid lessons of my life have been lived experiences. You can read something and believe it to be true with your mind, but…

I’ve written dozens of posts on habits, and consider good habits to be one of the core life skills that everyone should know.…

In the social media and smartphone age, nearly everyone is exposed to a constant stream of talented people doing exciting things with their lives.…

Every few years, an old debate flares up again, usually after some new survey makes the rounds.…

I have no reservations in saying that my life is a quest for happiness. A lot of people can’t seem to admit that about themselves, or would rather frame it in a way that…

In our first two years of marriage I took minimalism so far that it became a point of tension between my wife and I, and a frequent point of debate with my friends. Looking…

Walking, one of life’s simplest pleasures, has somehow become underrated. How do I know this? Well, I walk every day for nearly an hour. I start from my house in town and set out…

Google has an amazing tool that lets you see the frequency of a word’s usage over the years across a sample of 8 million books. From the year 1800 until about 1985, the word…

Energy levels are an important predictor of success, and they're not as fixed as you might believe.…

Like anyone, I occasionally fall into the self-pity trap.…

On the surface, so many of us feel our lives are too busy. We’re too often stressed and overwhelmed and can’t find the time in our day for all the things we want to…

In this crazy, modern world, we have a tendency to hyper-focus on what is easily measured, at the expense of everything else. We track calories and macronutrients and jump from one fad diet to…