Tools, Fuel, & Steering Instructions
to Make a Life You Believe In
He looked nasty. He might have been saying “vacuum” as he glared back at me through my windshield, the wiper smearing early evening raindrops across the dirty glass. I had nudged my car into the crosswalk, trying my best to inch around the left turner in front of me and cross Mission Street before the holiday crowd swarmed
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I’m changing my mind (again) about marriage. As I prepare for the Great Year Workshop in which Love in all its forms is central to making a life you believe in, I’ve been turning to an unlikely source for relationship inspiration: marriage. Many and maybe even most marriages dissolve well before the death-before-parting deadline. It seems
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So often New Year resolutions crumble or the onslaught of obligations overwhelm your best intentions. You can easily lose your grip on what’s most important to you, and worse, lose a sense of who you are. On top of that, setting a goal and letting it go unrealized can eat at your self-confidence, perhaps even your hope in the
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Here’s something you need to do before you die, maybe even now. Tickets for the best Pilot Fire event go on sale soon, and this year it’s going to be a little bigger, deeper, and more exciting even than last year. I’ll be announcing a special deal next week to people on the First Alerts
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“What do I do the next time I see her?” That’s a great question. When you are no longer your lover’s Lover, what is the new role you play, and what does that tell you about what to do next? As satisfying as knife-in-the-eye revenge fantasies may seem, for many of us it behooves all
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Did you fail this week? I hope so. Most people don’t like the phrase, “I failed,” I say it all the time, and I’d like you to try it out. Say it with gusto. Say it this week. Here’s how: Remember the acrobat. Catapulted into the air, she turns her body with precision, tucking, twisting,
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A.J. Jacobs is my Cousin. He’s yours, too, and he is on a mission to make sure we know it. I interviewed A.J. to find out why he takes his role as Cousin so seriously, and I’m convinced we would all be better people to follow his example. Plus, he’s throwing a giant party in
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In my role as Neighbor, I’ve made a point of getting to know people I would never meet in other situations. As a result I’ve made some of the most meaningful connections to remarkable people, like Andrea and Catherine, people I can now call family. Just read what they are doing, and join us. It’s so
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Sunday. Monday. Tuesday. Wednesday. Is that it? For five years I have felt no Despair. My therapist and psychiatrist helped me dial in a cocktail of medication that made sure of that, and last month the same team designed a way off that has taken three weeks to implement. Thursday is my first day without any
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“There is no such thing as a unicorn, little boy.” This is what’s called a falsifiable hypothesis, a claim that can be proven false. Failure of this hypothesis would be the production of a unicorn. Conversely, the hypothesis, “Unicorns exist,” is not falsifiable. You cannot prove this claim false because, even if there are no
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