Kiss the Frog

Yesterday, I went out to brunch with a dear friend of mine. She taught me a new phrase which I had never heard before, kissing the frog. She explained that in some professional environments, this phrase is used to reflect the act of buckling down to do the...

Relationship Carcinogens

Life is all about relationships. Having people you love and love you back can be one of the most rewarding things in life. It makes sense from all perspectives. From the evolutionary perspective, without a community and without others, we couldn’t survive....

Saving a Lifetime of Heartache

What if you could save yourself the lifetime of heartache and learn to heed life’s most valuable lessons before you were on your deathbed? Ware has worked in palliative care and shares the most pressing lessons of the dying with the rest of the world. The top...

Permanently Changing Our Behaviors

The key to permanently changing our behaviors is to change our internal state. Conceptually, it’s an easy fix. Relatively speaking, it’s probably one of the most difficult things we can do. But stick with me, and by the end of this post I hope to be able...

Hack Your Brain

The way we behave is affected by the way our brains are wired. What if we took this knowledge and hacked our brains to show up in the world the way we wanted to? Our brains are ancient – thousands of years old, inherited from our ancestors. Having an ancient...