a daily blog on well-being and how to feel better by Mark Barger Elliott…

Where it doesn’t matter is how you prepare for when it does.  Tim Ferriss hosts a podcast with millions of followers. He turned the best advice he received from over 200 “chess prodigies, movie stars, four-star generals, pro athletes, and hedge fund managers, etc” into a great book with a somewhat off-putting title, Tools of…

Do you know what it means to sploot?  You’ve likely heard of spelunking- exploring cool underground caves- and you know what it is to splatter something across a surface, like paint on the floor. Put the two together – splelunk and splatter – and you get the idea of what it means to sploot. Those…

One thing leads to another. It sounds like like a cliche, but it’s actually true, as most cliches are. One thing we think, do, say, leads to the next thing we think, do or say. And this is also true.  We always have the choice as to what our “one thing” is.  We can set…

In his book How to Live, Derek Sivers asks two questions: “If you knew you’d go blind tomorrow, how intensely would you look at the world today? If you knew you’d go deaf tomorrow, how intensely would you listen?” Here’s one more – If you knew you would never experience a particular emotion again, which one…

An anchor grounds a ship through the surge of a storm. An anchor keeps a vessel from drifting in the ebb and flow of a current. An anchor enables a crew to rest in the midst of a journey.  There are many kinds of anchors  – the stockless anchor, the norhill anchor, the grapnel anchor, the herreshoff…

We saw the new Indiana Jones film last night (which we really enjoyed) and in a scene with his god daughter Indiana says, “a few times in my life, I’ve seen things. Things I can’t explain. And I’ve come to believe it’s not so much what you believe, it’s how hard you believe it.” When…