Along with setting your one resolution, think about setting an avoidance. Some temptation or bad habit that you’ll conciously work on eradicating. Simone Weil was a French philosopher, mystic, and political activist. Albert Camus described her as “the only great spirit of our times”. She studied at the École Normale Supérieure – a French grande […]
The American Film Institute lists Katharine Hepburn as the greatest screen legend to ever live (Bette Davis is number two and Audrey Hepburn is three). For those who haven’t seen her films, there’s a plethora to choose from. Outside of her films, however, Ms. Hepburn is known for the way she lived. Refusing to get […]
The last one hundred years of research suggest that you, and everyone else, still believe in a form of naïve realism. You still believe that although your inputs may not be perfect, once you get to thinking and feeling, those thoughts and feelings are reliable and predictable. We now know that there is no way […]
The point of the Ac(count)ability chart is to not make ourselves feel bad, but to reward ourselves for doing good. The point isn’t to have a perfect score. The point is to change your score every week. To go from one number to a higher one. The point is to reward yourself for drinking that […]
I HATE WORKING OUT. I hate it. The problem is, even if I can get myself to go one time, the pain of that one time is so strong that it keeps me from going back for another two months. But it doesn’t have to be like that, and the sooner I find a way […]
I don’t know about you, but the last few weeks (make that months) have been feeling… out of control. The way I’m eating, thinking, acting. I’m out of sync with myself and the woman I want to be. I’m drinking more than normal. I’m plagued by feelings of apathy and self hate. I find it […]
I have a shameful secret. I hate water. There, I said it. There’s something about water that’s just so…blah. The idea of drinking 8 glasses a day seems as impossible as running 8 miles a day. But I know how important it is to stay hydrated. I also know that if I’m not drinking water, […]
I know I should drink more water. In fact, I hear it so much I begin to protest it just because I hate anything I think I’m supposed to do (cue flossing, sleeping for eight hours, changing my sheets once a week). I can rationalize anything. “I’ll sleep when I’m dead.” “I’ll floss when I’m […]