Pursuing simplicity in work, home, community, and self
We're headed out to lunch. Hmm, what to choose... will it be All You Can Eat sushi? Brazilian meats? Korean BBQ? We're no strangers to buffets. I like to eat, and so does my 6'6", 225-lb, all-muscle husband (who happens to be in the practice already of eating only one big meal a day). Even my 4 …
Life Is Like An All You Can Eat Buffet: Narrow Your Options For HappinessRead More
At the beginning of this year, I constructed a list of “18 for 2018” (small and large goals to be completed a la Gretchen Rubin, discussed in an earlier post). My completion rate was decent: of the 18 items, I definitively completed 14, initiated/partially did 2, and did not complete …
This year, I decided to make a list a la Gretchen Rubin of 18 things I want to do in 2018. I discussed the idea earlier in an earlier post here. I thought it seemed like a nice way to make some intentions for the year without a lofty list of resolutions. Instead, the list simply serves as a kind of …
It's the time of year again when people consider things they want to change in their lives. Ways they want to be better. Goals they want to achieve. But as we all know, these changes don't happen overnight. Just how the journey is more important than the destination, the habits we employ on the path …
"In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed." - Sid Caesar At the start of a new year, most of us contemplate some type of resolutions, whether they be fitness or diet-related, improvements at work, or changing of certain habits. However, effective goal setting can …
Making 2015 Resolutions? Frame Them Around Known Components of HappinessRead More
It's the new year, and I often start it off by doing a little decluttering. In efforts to clean out my study, I came across my medical school yearbook. Each student in my class was given a page in the book that was headed with our (new and strange) "MD" signature and a picture of us in our white …
