Tools, Fuel, & Steering Instructions
to Make a Life You Believe In
“If you only had enough willpower, you’d be healthier.” Now there’s a myth I grew up with that persists today. It’s bullshit. Look it up. Willpower is a limited resource we waste on things like trying not to eat the giant piece of chocolate cake in front of us, getting to the gym when we’re
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I was with my daughter at a film festival which had been sponsored by Chipotle, and the following commercial played at the beginning of every show. (Watch it in a minute.) It’s beautifully produced, nostalgic, and powerfully, vaguely inspiring, and after four or five views through the weekend, it grew a little tiresome. Then on
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We come just after dawn. When resources are scarce, we attack the weakest of us, the deformed and outcast. We invaginate us, drenching our bodies with acid until we are unrecognizable. Then we eat us. We are hungry. We are literally starving. This is not only how we survive; it’s how we purge evil and stay pure.
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If you want to focus on anything, get your butt moving. Literally. Shake it, bounce it, move it till you’re panting like Tom Cruise in Minority Report— before he gets the new eyes.† E is for Energize In the SMART & SEXY goal checklist, the E is for Energize. The idea is simple: When you
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“I was Nobody. When I was anorexic I did not know who I was. I had no identity. I was 10 years old, still, when I was in my mid-20’s. I was a baby inside. Just a year ago I was a tiny mouse. I didn’t talk on the phone. I didn’t talk to anyone. I
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Thresholds are places to linger. At a graduation, for a time, a student is no longer a student, and not yet a graduate. During an engagement, the question of coupling has been asked, but not yet answered. Rites of passage provide liminal experiences, at least they are meant to, and the practice of creating these
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