It’s not overkill to write down your solutions to simple, infrequent problems. Forcing your mind to repeat the thinking process is overkill.

If you want to live out your values, your aspirations need to be funneled into a few physical actions, in real time. The secret sauce? A weekly values review.

When the weather broods with freezing rain, there is nothing better than to have a companionable pot of beans, fragrant with olive oil and aromatics, simmering on your stove.

Take a little time each day to step back. As a full human person, you need time to think. (And it takes time to think!)

You prepare the space first. Then you have the bandwidth to welcome what’s next.

If a role becomes your spiritual practice, you don’t just grow into the role, you allow the role to grow you.

We must push back against this idea that we are failures if our real lives don’t impress strangers.

What if leisure means taking time to be utterly non-productive? To improve nothing, not even ourselves?

How could sixteen people share one house? In part, because of index cards.

If you are waiting to rest until the world stops wanting things from you, until all the requests are met and all the work is done, you will not get any rest.

Lists where everything looks the same are harder to process. Here are a couple of simple, visually-oriented ways to plan out your day so you can see at a glance what is going on.

A flexible work schedule can sometimes feel like work that never ends. Use a 21-block weekly template to make time for your important commitments.

Most of the time I use my checklists. Once in a while I get tired of using them, and Spontaneous Brain wins over Planning Brain.

I got annoyed with a butterfly when it messed with my schedule.

Want to feel motivated to make your life better? Don't start by making a bucket list. Start by writing down a day in the life of your hoped-for self, and a day in the life of your feared-for self.