working with seasons
Jerry Seinfield, apart from being famous for his sitcom, is also well known for popularising the concept of the “habit chain“: you complete one thing you really want to accomplish for the…
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breaking the doom scroll
7 days ago I changed my morning routine: previously I would doom scroll with my morning coffee, but for the last week I’ve been writing my morning pages instead. I had the…
We have spent a lifetime developing responses to pain and difficulty
We have spent a lifetime developing responses to pain and difficulty. Changing these old habits is like trying to reverse the momentum of a boulder tumbling down a mountainside. It requires great effort, skill, patience, perseverance, and no small amount of courage. —Lama Shenpen
What I learned after 60 consecutive days of running
I started running, out of desperation. I suffered from an array of chronic health issues including migraines, and I was tired of being powerless. I read a bunch of books and they…
Practicing the ability to wait
being unable to wait = misery
Self-quantifying to better health
with the Apple Watch
personal infrastructure
Continuing the theme of last week’s post, I am writing this without anything specific in mind. I spent a couple of hours writing a post on Medium this afternoon, and then decided…
Build up habits that compound
what tiny changes can amount to
The power of 8 minutes
I have begun to instill a new habit for myself – which is to bring my kindle on my very short commute to work everyday. The BART ride is 8 minutes and…