I read an article by an author who tried five different ways of making coffee at home to find the very best way to do it. What was interesting, wasn’t the five different ways that she tried, but in researching the different methods, she talked to some coffee experts and learned some really cool, new […]
coffee, new, trying something new
Back in high school I took one of those Triple A driving courses that included watching films that seem like they had been made about 30 years before, with different driving tips. One of those tips was called “Aim high in steering”. And the idea was that, in addition to steering the car based on […]
driving, driving course, Motivation, steering
One of the keys to a healthy lifestyle is getting a good night sleep, but a lot of people find it difficult to fall asleep at night, and that may apply to you as well. Here are three things you can do to fall asleep faster at night. Stop using electronics. Turn them off and […]
falling asleep, Productivity, Sleep, tips
If you’re like many people right now, you are working from home all or some of the time. If you previously had a commute, the good news is you are no longer spending that time on the road. The bad news is a lot of people are discovering that that commute actually was beneficial. Not […]
commute, fake commute, Productivity, work from home
My brother, Robbie, who passed away in 1999, was a connoisseur of many things, including chocolate. And he would eat chocolate in threes, three pieces at a time. His reasoning was that if you’re only going to limit yourself to one piece of chocolate, you might as well not even bother. The first piece just […]
chocolate, discipline, eating, eating chocolate
We all know that when we’re happy, that can make us smile. But can simply smiling make you happy? And the answer, according to many researchers, is an emphatic YES. The reason is that when you smile, it sends a signal back to the brain that there is humor happening. So simply smiling can set […]
emotion, happy, research, smiling
One of the great minds in psychology, Sigmund Freud said,” the tasks of healthy adulthood are to work and to love, but a lot of people don’t love where they work, they are in jobs where they feel stuck in a bad situation and don’t know what to do about it.” If that describes you, […]
career, job situation, stuck
In his 1958 short story called “Murke’s Collected Silences”, the German author, Heinrich Boll, writes about a sound engineer named Murke who works in a recording studio. His job is to record talks and speeches by famous people, and as part of that job he has to edit out the pauses that they take during […]
recording studio, silence, silences
My Aunt Sonia was going to get her car washed and someone told her that there was rain in the forecast. Without missing a beat, Aunt Sonia said,” Well it’s going to rain on a clean car.” She was well known for having the courage of her convictions on matters great and small, including getting […]
advice, car wash, positivity
There was an article in the New York Times about making bagels. (You can read it here) One of the comments they made in the article was that because there are only five ingredients in a bagel, people commonly have this misconception that they’re relatively easy to make, but there are a lot of factors […]
article, bagels, making bagels, NYT