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12 “GPS” Questions to Ask Yourself About Your Life’s Direction
Provocative questions to ask yourself when you’re feeling stuck or lost, or to double-check you’re taking your life in the right direction.
Time Logging Day 1,876: A Boring Example of an Extraordinary Habit
Time logging seems tedious, but can produce incredidble results. Here’s a time log example for a regular day in my life.
5 Steps to Host Memorable Dinner Parties with Friends
Move over Martha. Follow gathering guru Priya Parker’s counterintuitive advice for throwing memorable dinner parties with friends instead.
Don’t Feel Like Working Out? Try “Grown-Up” Motivation
Try this “grown-up” strategy instead of the typical “childish” ones to motivate yourself to work out when you don’t feel like it.
The Physics of Expanding Your Comfort Zone
How the forces of reality and complacency make it challenging to expand your comfort zone into your theoretical potential.
The Rare Few Truly Life-Changing Personal Development Blogs
The golden few personal development blogs that have successfully inspired me to take action and made my life better.
How to Find the Meaning of Winning at Life in 7 Questions
The better (or less badly!) you define your own meaning of winning at life, the better you’ll be able to play the game.
How to Write a Personal Mission Statement That Doesn’t Suck
The 3 arguments for having a personal mission statement and how to write (and fulfill) one that actually means something.
The Who-Not-How Strategy for Holding Yourself Accountable
Holding yourself accountable isn’t an action. It’s an identity. Assume it. Don’t let yourself down. And prove it.
How to Measure Personal Productivity In a Way that Makes a Difference
Who cares about being efficient? You shouldn’t (too much). Here’s how to measure personal productivity in a way that matters.
The Hits and Misses from Our Unconventional Wedding
Lessons from the hits and misses of our non-traditional wedding that might help you come up with unconventional wedding ideas and activities of your own
The Ultimate Guide to Befriending Your Future Self
Counterintuitive strategies for being less selfish, befriending your future self, and reaping life’s rewards.
Sleeping on the Floor Lessons I Learned the Hard Way
The unexpected benefits, challenges, and lessons I learned from sleeping on the floor, and how it permanently changed how my wife and I sleep.
Metabolic Exercises: A Huge List for HIIT Workout Planning
Use this expanding library of metabolic exercises to spend less effort thinking what to do and spend it on your HIIT workout instead.
How to Acquire a Taste: My Black Licorice Experiment
Experimenting with 7 scientific and pseudoscientific strategies on how to acquire a taste for a food to try to learn to like black licorice.
How to Stop Liking Junk Food: The Reverse-to-Revulsion Technique
How to train yourself to stop liking junk food by reversing the proven strategies used to get kids to eat their veggies.
Factors Affecting Taste Perception: Fun Facts and Findings on Flavor
Fun facts about factors that affect taste pereception that you can use to make every bite in life a little more delicious.
Pant-athlon: The New, Fun HIIT Workout That Keeps Us Coming Back for More
The Pant-athlon is a new, fun HIIT workout involving strategy, competition, and endless variety. Any level and with any equipment can do it.
The Pros and Cons of Eating With Your Hands
Does eating with your hands have social, health, and flavor benefits? Let’s roll up our sleeves and get our hands dirty to investigate.
How to Train Your Palate: The Art and Science of Better Taste
Learn how to train your palate with this guide to the science and art of tasting and the surprising best ways to practice and improve.
To Enjoy Food More, Treat Every Course Like Intercourse
How to enjoy food more by following four steps: Pick the right partners, get in the mood, extract maximum enjoyment, and do it well.
10 Reasons You’re Not Being Your Best Self
Ten proven strategies you may have forgotten to focus on, which is keeping you from becoming your best self.
We Need More Demotivational Speakers in Our Lives
You (and everyone) need more demotivational speakers and less B.S. positive affirmation and participation trophies. Start here.
Life is Not a Competition, But You Can Still Win
Life is not a competition but you can still win at it if you follow these eight strategies.
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