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

“Most of life is a search for who and what needs you the most.,” offers successful entrepreneur and podcaster Naval Ravikant in The Almanack, a collection of his insights on how to discern and set priorities in our life and work. His point is once we can identify “who” and “what” needs us, then we…

I have been collecting and organizing my favorite quotes from Lao Tzu and the Tao Te Ching. This one speaks insightfully as to the relationship between belief, contentment and acceptance. “Because he believes in himself, he doesn’t try to convince others. Because he is content with himself, he doesn’t need others’ approval. Because he accepts himself, the…

I happened upon an interview in a magazine last night with George Clooney and Brad Pitt where this dialogue occurred: Clooney: Soderbergh used to talk about this with Ocean’s when we did it, which was that everyone was actively trying to hand the scene to the other person. And that was kind of a generosity of spirit, but…

“This is where it mends or it brakes,” sings Bailey Zimmerman in his song Between a Rock and a Hard Place. I came across that line on one of my runs recently listening to a country playlist. And I thought, that’s an interesting observation: that there is precise moment or situation where something can either improve…

Over the weekend I read a wonderful insight from Brianna Wiest who teaches there is a part of us that knows what we need to do next to realize our dreams, we just need the faith to do it. And this faith is different than, as she writes, “predicting, projecting, or becoming attached to uncertain…

Lately WordPress, on which I write this blog, has offered a new AI writing tool. It no longer simply underlines words that are potentially misspelled, or grammatical issues, but it underlines – in different colors – words it suggests are “unconfident,” or “complex,” as well as “long sentences.” What is the result? I have noticed…