№05|We give dissatisfaction too much credit 6-minute read · Rather listen? Skip to the podcast below ↓ I remember the days I prayed for everything I have today. That phrase hangs above my bathtub in my Texas home. The place I go to rest, reflect, and get away from it all. And every time I walk into the bathroom, I look at it, and it makes me smile. Not because it's a saying to hang on the wall, but because it's true. My Texas home was the little cabin I prayed for years ago. My car was my...
13 days ago • 6 min read
№04|Joy is not a reward for finishing 9-minute read · Rather listen? Skip to the podcast below↓ You finally get the hour you said you wanted. The work is mostly handled. No one needs anything urgent. The weather is good, someone you love is nearby, and for once there's nowhere you absolutely have to be. And within a few minutes, you're thinking about what you should be doing instead. There's laundry upstairs. An email you forgot to answer. A decision you've been avoiding. Maybe you pick up...
20 days ago • 10 min read
№03|Being liked is not the same as being known 9-minute read · Rather listen? Skip to the podcast below↓ The dinner went well. That’s the strange part. Everyone was glad you came. Someone said the thing they always say about you, and by every measure, you were wonderful. You asked good questions. You laughed easily. You gave the short, funny answer to the question about work, the one you’ve given so many times now that it comes out without much thought. From the outside, there was nothing to...
27 days ago • 10 min read
№02|You may need daylight more than another cup of coffee 7-minute read · Rather listen? Skip to the podcast below↓ There’s a version of morning most of us know well. You wake up indoors. Turn on the lights. Make coffee. Check your phone. Move to a computer. Maybe get into a car, drive somewhere, and walk into another building. Hours can pass before you really go outside. Then somewhere around two or three in the afternoon, your energy drops. You reach for another cup of coffee, something...
about 1 month ago • 8 min read
№01|The life you notice is the life you experience 6-minute read · Rather listen? Skip to the podcast below↓ There's a room you've walked through a thousand times. And you may not be able to describe the window in it. Not what it faces, not how the light moves across the floor, maybe not even whether it opens. Nothing about that window is hidden. You simply stopped seeing it. We do this all the time. With rooms, people, our bodies, the drive home, or even with the person sitting across from...
about 1 month ago • 6 min read