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Emotional Fitness
How to Become More Assertive →
A Guide to Living Your Own Life
How to Think About Feelings →
7 Things You Should Have Learned About Emotions in 3rd Grade.
What If Daddy Issues Are Really Daddy Habits? →
Our past doesn’t cause suffering, but the habits it fostered may
How Our Stories Make Us Miserable →
10 Types of Negative Self-Talk (and How to Correct Them)
Productivity
The 7 Habits of a Peaceful and Productive Mind →
Effective routines for a calmer, more effective mind
Productive Procrastination →
3 Counterintuive methods for using procrastination to get more work done
The 4:55 Drill →
A Simple Teachnique to Stay Productive at Work and Relaxed at Home
Deep Productivity →
3 Important Lessons I Learned After a 30-Day Digital Declutter
Reimagining Productivity →
Why we need to re-think the term productivity
Motivation
Nobody Lacks Motivation. We’re Just Motivated Toward the Wrong Things →
We’re thinking about motivation all wrong
The 4 Causes of Procrastination →
The key to breaking the procrastiantion habit is to understand your unique vulnerability to it.
How to Find a Side Project You’re Passionate About →
The psychology of finding your passion
Mindfulness
How to Start a Mindfulness Practice →
A Quick Guide for Complete Beginners
No Seriously, What Is Mindfulness? →
Why mindfulness is both more important and less complicated than you think
Ordinary Mindfulness →
How to Be More Mindful in Everyday Life
25 Tiny Lessons I’ve Learned from a Daily Mindfulness Meditation Practice →
A collection of helpful and thought-provoking ideas about meditation
Stress & Anxiety
Why We Worry (and How to Stop) →
Understanding the function of worry is essential to undoing the habit
Paradoxical Problems →
When Hard Work Doesn’t Work
Trying to Control Anxiety Will Always Backfire →
When we try to control anxiety, we end up making it worse because we teach our brain to fear itself.
A Beginner’s Guide to Anxiety →
Everything you wanted to know about anxiety in one place
The Stress-Reducing Magic of Punctuating Your Life →
Chronically stressed? You probably need more whitespace in your life.
Better Sleep
How to Fall Asleep Amazingly Fast with Deliberate Worry →
The single best technique for falling asleep fast
The Problem With Sleep Hygiene →
Why Sleep Hygiene does more harm than good
The Beginner’s Guide to Insomnia →
Everything you wanted to know about insomnia in one place
How to Sleep Well Before a Big Day →
5 Practical Strategies to Get the Rest You Need to Do Your Best Work
Is Blue Light Destroying Your Sleep? →
No, but Worrying About it Is.
How the Simpsons Cured My Insomnia →
The upside of watching TV in bed
Minimalism
Minimalism Terrifies Me. And That’s a Really Good Thing. →
Why Minimalism is about more not less
What Is Digital Minimalism? →
Why we all need to be more intentional with the personal technology in our lives
The 30-Day Digital Declutter →
What I learned after going a month without any optional personal technology
The Case for Mental Minimalism →
No, but Worrying About it Is.
Habit Building
How I Used The Seinfeld Method to Create a Writing Habit →
This technique will help you start and stick with any habit
8 Habits I Practice to Strengthen My Mental Health →
Essemtial routines and habits for better mental health
How to Make New Habits Stick (Even on a Crazy Schedule) →
9 practical tips for establishing new habits in difficult circumstances
The 2 Qualities of Transformative Routines →
For better routines and habits, make sure they have these two ingredients
Miscellaneous
Cheerfulness Is Not a Personality Trait. It’s a Virtue. →
On the dangers of confusing feelings and actions
5 Underrated Self-Help Books Everyone Should Read →
These are some of my favorite self-help books that actually help
5 Ways to Boost Your Creativity with Divergent Thinking →
Simple strategies for becoming more creative
Does Everyone Need Therapy? →
No, but everyone could benefit from it.
