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

Football coach Sean McVay asks a great question: “Are the habits you have for today on par with the dreams you have for tomorrow?”  Meaning, if you are hoping to improve your physical or mental well-being, wanting to finish a project you started, or seeking a promotion or new career, do you have the habits…

The NFL draft will be held on April 25th. There are 32 teams and 7 rounds so 224 players will be selected. A lot of money is at stake. The difference between what the first selection in the first round earns and the first selection of the second round is about 4 times more. The…

What do you do when you mess up? When something goes wrong and it’s your fault.  Restauranteur Danny Meyer offers this idea in his wonderful book Setting the Table – “write a great last chapter.” Meaning, a mistake is not the end of the story. Meyer applies this idea whenever something goes wrong in his…

Life is lived leaning either towards curiosity or skepticism.  In other words, we are either asking questions about what we don’t know in order to try to understand it, or attempting to reduce the unfamiliar to what we do know or understand by looking for immediate faults. One test to identify where we might land…

Showing up when you don’t want to often ends up being a time when you discover there is something God wants to show you. Here’s an example. When Barack Obama was first running for president he made a promise to visit Greenwood, South Carolina, the hometown of an influential legislator. Obama writes, “As it turned…

What is the difference between committing 100% to a challenge, opportunity, or competition and say, 92%? Here is an example.  As journalist Gary Washburn writes, “The Boston Celtics (a basketball team) were up 18 with just under three minutes left. But Joe Mazzulla’s (the coach) never-wavering focus locked in on Phoenix swingman Royce O’Neale, who…