Ideas for a Better Life

A friend sent me a fascinating New York Times article about how as humans, we instinctively try to keep our options open, even when cognitively, we know that it doesn’t serve us to do so. In a cleverly designed experiment with students, the article noted the following: "Apparently [the experiment’s subjects] did not care so…

I recently returned from a vacation in Maui with my family.  Unlike most vacations, this one was an impulse purchase, the result of a Saturday morning conversation that my husband had with a friend who was headed to Maui shortly. What started off innocently as a "How much does airfare cost?" and "When can you…

A couple of quotes to ponder: "The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence…

Two books that I recommend, both antidotes to Mr. Scrooge’s nightmare of reaching the end of a lifetime with significant regrets: Five Wishes by Gay Hendricks. This is a quick read that you can easily get through in an evening. What will take longer is to implement your insights from reading the book. Hendricks weaves…