It’s your birthday, you take a long look at your life and realize you’re nowhere near you wanted to be by this point. You might be in your 20’s, 30’s or 40’s and your love life, your career or your financial situation is in the… Read More »Shifts in perspective
It sometimes feels like the whole world is conspiring against us, and nothing goes right. The problem is that the thought of everything going wrong causes even more things to go wrong. It’s not magic, it’s a matter of attention. When we are consumed by… Read More »When everything goes wrong
This poster on Reddit asked if people actually enjoyed raising kids. I couldn’t resist and I think you might enjoy my answer. Alright, I’ll bite. I’ve got a rambunctious 6 year old boy and a newborn baby girl who’s just over 3 weeks old and… Read More »Raising kids
Sometime all you need is to realize you’re absolutely not okay with the way things are to start making changes. You can’t change the past or the decisions that you’ve already made, but you’re starting from here, from right now, and you can choose a… Read More »It’s never too late
A girl on Reddit tells a story about her partner who’s apparently looking for a place to rent for himself, claiming he’s just out of a relationship – while in a committed, long term relationship with her. Maybe you’re in a relationship and like this… Read More »Rocking the boat
Our culture doesn’t look fondly on tears, especially for grown men. “The only kind of crying you can allow yourself in front of a woman, is the James Dean kind – eyes wide open, staring into the distance, one lone tear rolling down your face”… Read More »Crying to freedom
Photo by Andrew Neel on Unsplash A recent question on IH got me thinking again about how motivation and procrastination relate to emotions, and especially to fear, and how my own fear drives a lot of my behaviour as I’m working to get Wuju off… Read More »How to focus on one thing