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

If you are tracking Olympic basketball the United States made an enormous comeback against Serbia on Thursday to make it to today’s Gold Medal game. Seth Curry led the team with 36 points. In a press conference he said this, “You live for those moments… I shot three times last game and I wasn’t looking…

In his book Projections, Karl Deisseroth describes an aspect of life that is fascinating, and that is we owe our existence as he writes to “an ancient class of microbes called archaebacteria—who brought the mysterious skill of using oxygen for energy when they traveled into, and dwelt within, our cellular forebears more than two billion…

“In the days still left,” sang Sting while a man walked 20 feet above him on a wire, “we’ll walk in fields of gold.” This occurred in the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine which was illuminated in yellow light for this performance. The occasion was the 50th anniversary of when the man, Philippe…

In the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, American track and field athlete Noah Lyles did not have the result he had hoped for in the 200 meter race. Lyles shared in an interview how he came to a realization at the time that “there is no deserving.” Meaning, although he was a favorite and had…

Yesterday when I visited the men’s Olympic basketball website a pop-up cookie box appeared. The choice was between “Yes, I’m Happy” or “No, I decline.” Without really thinking I clicked, “Yes, I’m Happy.” The thing is I never click that box to accept cookies, so what happened?  The clever designers had offered two ideas –…

I continue to be inspired by Danny Meyer and his book, Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business. Here is a fabulous idea I reread yesterday: “I encourage each manager to take ten minutes a day to make three gestures that exceed expectations and take a special interest in our guests. That…