My social media feed and my email inbox were filled this week with images from friends in the San Francisco Bay Area. An outré orange bloom swept across the sky and washed everything in ocher shadows. At 11 in the morning, people had to drive with headlights or turn on their houselights. The word apocalypse […]
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Our tendency is to defend ourselves against chaos, trying to reduce the impact of randomness on our lives. We try to adapt with rituals and beliefs that help us manage the challenges of our existence, as Mihaly Csikszentmihalhyi says in his book, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. As we enter the ninth month of
It’s nearly August, and the city is emptying of its citizens as they depart for their summer holidays. This time of year, the beaches team with people — even in an age of pandemic. Hotels and resorts are booked solid, and charging astronomical summer prices. It’s the Annual Holiday, marked by an exodus to the
Two years ago today, I sat on a plane in San Francisco, teary-eyed and exhausted, and braced myself for a one-way journey to Lisbon. When we set out on this adventure, we did it with the intention of staying at least two years. The first year would be just enough time to settle into a
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Does your process for setting a goal derive mostly from external target-setting or internal tuning?
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If COVID-19 has demonstrated anything, it’s that certainty is dead. No one actually knows what the future holds.
