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

We often start to feel anxious when there is an aspect of our lives that feels out of our control. So we begin to over plan. We run multiple scenarios to try to predict every outcome. And this likely makes us even more anxious. One way to reduce these kinds of uncomfortable feelings is to…

Chris Paul is one of the best basketball players in the world. When asked in a recent podcast the secret to his success he said it’s all about “stacking days.” Meaning, whatever goal we have – emotional, physical,  vocational, spiritual – the path to reaching that goal involves sticking with it when the easiest thing would…

When you think of limits, what comes to mind?  For athletes a limit might be how long it takes to run a mile. For an engineer it might be stress on a joint in a building. Author Brianna Wiest pointed us recently to the concept that many people have an “upper limit” of happiness. Meaning,…

“Even the longest biography is only 66 hours on audio,” writes Seth Godin. ”This means that the author has to leave out almost everything. We write our own autobiography each day by deciding what to focus on, what to rehash, and what to worry about. The same life story can be told in many ways,…

I’m not sure when I started watching videos of pandas rolling over and over in the snow, playing with toys, climbing and then falling off trees. But the panda videos made me smile and then they started  – as these things do – showing up more and more frequently in my social media feed. This made…

We were walking past a 1950s Chrysler Imperial when I noticed it had a radio antenna that a driver could extend by pulling it up. This is sometimes called a telescoping antenna. You’ll see a photo of it at on-emotions.com. Some cars still have antennas. Old cell phones used to have antennas. How an antenna works…