It can be helpful to think of your life as a finite space that routinely needs tending to in order to best manage your time, attention, energy, and ultimately your wellbeing. 

To engage with something is to grant it space:

The problems you try to solve take up space. ...

Acceptance is acknowledging present circumstances & the implications — good and bad — that they bring. 

Acceptance is having compassion and love for the individuals we surround ourselves with. 

Acceptance is having compassion and love for yourself. 

Acceptance is recognizing problems instead of denying them. 

Acceptance...

During my freshman year when my counselor asked me what I wanted to do in the future, I promptly responded with “I don’t know.”

Meanwhile, all my other peers at the time seemed to know exactly what they wanted to be: a software engineer, a doctor, a lawyer, a musician,...

We rely on a variety of information including body language, tone, and the words used to understand what someone is trying to communicate to us. 

In an era where we’re communicating more asynchronously than ever, we’re often deprived of one or more of these inputs, which puts us at...

Ownership is when you say that’s my problem and commit to to overseeing all of the activity that needs to happen to address it. 

Ownership is when you accept responsibility over the outcome. 

Ownership is when you do not default to converting problems into excuses or, worse, into...

Being willing to have honest conversations with our friends, family, and colleagues is vital to the development of more resilient, meaningful, and deeper relationships. 

These kinds of conversations are also notoriously unpleasant — at least at first. 

In fact, they’re so unpleasant that we often go to great...

Love yourself, love others, and be kind. 

Practice these 3 things above all else. 

Because in the long run you will find that nothing is more important. 

You can’t turn off anxiety.

You can’t turn on passion.

You can’t turn on a good culture. 

I often hear others suggesting to their peers and teams that they should just resolve to be less anxious, to be more passionate, or to be more cohesive as a team…as if...

In the 1847 Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis implemented a mandatory hand washing policy for anyone who worked with him in the Vienna General Hospital based on his theory that washing hands could dramatically reduce infection risk and mortality within his ward. 

Much to Dr. Semmelweis’ excitement, the mortality rate...

After graduating high school, I took a gap year and waited tables at a Chinese restaurant called Chow Bar.

During lunch time Monday through Friday, without fail, every single one of the 64 seats in the restaurants would be filled with patrons — many of which were students and instructors...