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You Have Permission to Suck
Children don’t seem to give up no matter what they do. It’s remarkable, considering they rarely get anything right. Their movements are awkward. They can’t write, draw, or talk properly. It’s almost...
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Better Instincts
“Go with your gut,” is occasionally good advice. More often, though, it’s an invitation to indulge in your fear or to avoid the hard work of understanding the nuance around us. Better advice is,...
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Warning: Chronic Complaining Is Hazardous to Your IQ
“Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt Did you ever notice that it’s easy to bond with someone over something negative? The crappy...
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Don’t Make Resolutions, Do This Instead!
The New Year is just around the corner along with the tradition of making resolutions, which are usually promises to do something “more, better, or different.” We vow to exercise more, get a better...
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Use the Four Tendencies to Tackle Your New Year’s Resolutions (Or Not).
Because I study happiness, good habits, and human nature, I’ve done a lot of thinking about New Year’s resolutions. In fact, when I was identifying the Four Tendencies — my framework that divides the...
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Luck-Filled Traditions For Your Best Year Yet!
Before we know it, 2018 will be here. Most of us have traditions for the New Year like making resolutions, creating a vision board or celebrating with loved ones. While these are worthy traditions, a...
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Two Powerful Questions to Ask Ourselves before Stepping into a New Year
2017 is almost gone, and we will soon enter a new year, a time when it is common to translate our hopes, wants, and dreams into new year resolutions. That is great and, by staying engaged and...
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Blessing the Good and the Bad
A colleague of mine describes how in the novel, Gilead, an old man facing his imminent death, tells the story of his life in a letter to his young son. The narrator repeatedly interrupts his story when...
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Change Your Perception, Change Your Life
Recently I had a rough week. I had a birthday, and a pretty significant one at that. My car got broke into, my husband and I had a fight, and one of my students changed my last name on my classroom...
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When You’re Stuck in a Hole, Look for Someone to Join You: A Lesson in Empathy
Here’s a story for anyone wandering in the wilderness—or in this case, anyone stuck in a hole: A man is walking down a street when he falls in a hole. The walls are so steep he can’t get out. A doctor...
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How Hulu Made Me Realize That Motherhood Isn’t Enough
My name is Jessie and I love my kids. I mean I LOVE my kids. I live, breathe and embody “mom” and all it entails. To say my daughters are my everything sounds banal. But it is the truth. I take pride...
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The Ultimate Guide to Being an Introvert
John Waters, the movie director, told me the other day where I could go if I wanted to kill myself. I suspect he was even more of an introvert than me. I’ll tell you where he suggested in a second. A...
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Shitty. Amazing. Resilient. Action. 17 Things I Did to Make the Most of This...
Banished my iPhone from my bedroom. If you’re addicted to technology, like I am/was, you’ll understand how major this is. Took me about three weeks to seal the habit. Result: I no longer feel doomsday...
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My Personal Vision Board
A vision board is a perfect tool to help you visualize your goals and activate the Law of Attraction. The best way to achieve your goals is to keep them top of mind so that you’re always looking for...
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Building Relationships Two Adjectives at a Time
A few nights ago, I asked Mark to come up with two adjectives to describe me, trusting that whatever he’d come up with would be complimentary. “Hot.” he said right away. And then, after a little more...
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12 Self-Love Tools for a Healthy and Happy 2018
It’s January, and a whole new year lies ahead of us! This is a time when many of us make resolutions for positive changes in our lives – a tradition that can be both exciting and overwhelming… or even...
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How to Become Your Own Gratitude Guru
In our fast-paced lives, it is easy to lose sight of what matters. As we are checking things off of our daily To Do list at lightning speed, our ability to be present or grateful is challenged. A daily...
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Do You Doubt the Difference You’re Making?
First I want to express my gratitude for all the loving comments and emails I receive regarding my posts. Thank you for reminding me of the difference that sharing vulnerably makes. Your responses...
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An Interesting and Useful Exercise: The Year-End Review with Myself.
In my book The Happiness Project, I describe how I belong to the three-person group “MGM” where we get together periodically to talk about issues, challenges, hopes, and frustrations related to our...
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Change Is in the Air Let Go … and Then Hang On!
So I know I am not the only one who had to deal with shift and change in 2017, right? I’m hearing ALL of you talk about it. I mean seriously, this year it kind of snuck up on me though. I didn’t expect...
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