“Almost everything that happens is either a good time or a good story.”

1: It was the weekend. The family drove into the countryside for a picnic.

“Just as they’d laid an impressive lunch spread on the blanket,”  Oliver Burkeman writes in Meditations for Mortals, “the heavens opened, but on this occasion, the parents let the kids eat anyway, in a pandemonium of wet sandwiches and laughter.”

This experience … continue reading

1: The year was 2022. Dave Prout was scrolling through Twitter when he saw a post by Sahil Bloom.

“Call your parents more often,” Sahil wrote, “they won’t be around forever. When you’re young and arrogant, death is a theoretical construct. Realize the people you love won’t be there forever. If your parents are 60 and you visit once a year, you may only see them 20 more times … continue reading

Of all Steven R. Covey’s powerful ideas and frameworks (I am a HUGE Steven Covey fan!!), my absolute favorite is the Circle of Influence vs. The Circle of Concern.

Steven asks us to consider: how do we spend a majority of our time?  Do we focus our time and energy on things about which we have no real control?  Or, do we focus our efforts on things we can impact … continue reading