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Make Things Better: Self, Part One

$ · March 16, 2025

If you’re at the end of your rope lately, it’s no surprise; the 21st century zeitgeist is almost perfectly designed to destroy your mental health. The...

Be Someone You Would Love: Crushing It

$ · March 9, 2025

For some of us, the idea of loving ourselves is awkward, daunting, or even offensive. So let’s not start there. Let’s start with the reasons we love other...

Enjoy Life: Wanting What You Have

$ · March 2, 2025

Did you know that it’s possible to get significant relief from stress without changing anything about your circumstances?In the last three newsletters I’ve...

Make Things Better: An Introduction

$ · February 23, 2025

How much of our lives do we spend waiting? Waiting for better weather, better leadership, better health. More free time, more energy, more money, more...

Be Someone You Would Love: An Introduction

$ · February 16, 2025

Think of someone who saved the world. Or if not, someone who made it so much better for others that it’s hard to imagine what humanity would look like today...

Enjoy Life: An Introduction

$ · February 9, 2025

Hello, friends, and welcome to my version of a primer on the how—and perhaps more importantly the why—of enjoying life regardless of circumstances. When I...

Allow me to introduce: Make Things Better.

February 4, 2025

A newsletter? That’s your amazing idea? Wait for it… I’ve been thinking a lot about what I can do, as someone dying slowly of metastatic cancer but still...