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

Sebastian Junger is a best-selling author and journalist who often reported while embedded with soldiers fighting a war. He once summed up what he learned through all these adventures: “You have to do the hardest thing.” He saw the benefit of this trait in the people he wrote about, but also within himself. Because if…

Jocko Willink is a retired Navy SEAL Commander, motivational speaker, and author and he has a one word response when things don’t go well – “good.” For example, as he writes: “Mission got cancelled? Good. We can focus on another one.Didn’t get the new high-speed gear we wanted? Good. We can keep it simple. Didn’t…

It’s sometimes helpful to imagine fear as simply a door we can choose to walk through. And as actor Jaime Foxx once put it, “on the other side of fear is nothing.” Meaning, all the horrible outcomes we can imagine are either temporary or nonexistent. What is fear inhibiting you from doing? If you walked…

In an interesting conversation between Malcom Gladwell and Tim Ferriss they were discussing how it can be helpful to start a project in medias res, which means “into the middle of things.” Both shared how they use this approach when writing books. The point is sometimes we don’t know where to begin and it’s helpful…

I came across a quote yesterday where a mystic said there is only one really good question, “What am I unwilling to feel?” The idea behind this question is that is place from where our spiritual, mental and physical growth will emerge. From that emotionally numb place that events in our lives, or ourselves, have…

This morning I came across a quote by Tony Robbins that he shared guides his life. He said that he believes, “Life is always happening for us, not to us. It’s our job to find out where the benefit is. If we do, life is magnificent.” What if you used the preposition for instead of…