Something about the transition from one year to the next inspires us to want to improve ourselves. Want to start 2019 with a New Year’s resolution? What if we make it easy? It seems there are 24 character strengths and every one of us already possesses all 24 – just in different proportions. How about starting the New Year acknowledging the strengths that already make you uniquely YOU?
Read moreHappy Holidays
The holidays are a time of cheer, and we all know the feeling of excitement when the holidays we love to celebrate roll around. We choose to forget any pain or sadness, and instead we remember all the joy in our lives.
Read moreLine Sitters
Professional line sitters make up to $35 an hour — and I’m not talking about birds! I’m referring to a whole new category of service people who are willing to wait in long lines for you while you use your time to do other things. Engage a line sitter and you don’t need to spend hours waiting in line to score last minute deals on Christmas gifts or tickets to shows for the holidays.
Read moreChange
We all think about change; it's the nature of existence. Even this moment is transient. We can only be present in the split second it exists. There’s no possibility of anchoring or replicating “now,” yet we still long for the comfort of predictability. Authors and philosophers contemplate change. Here are some of their perspectives, plus my own musings about embracing what is forever elusive.
Read moreDashes
I often receive thoughtful emails from you about these blogs. I consider your questions carefully. The first time you asked, “Why do you use dashes when you write?” it aroused my curiosity. A more recent email asked the question this way and it stopped me in my tracks: “Do you use dashes the way Emily Dickinson uses them in her poems?” I apologize for the silly grin on my face, but considering my use of dashes in the same sentence with Dickinson’s use makes me giggle.
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