The title is a quote from the stunningly sensational book Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman. Mr. Burkeman is/was a self-professed productivity geek and writer of the – This Column Will Change Your Life – column for The Guardian. His productivity world came to a head one
One day my wife Lea Ann said to me “nothing ever stops you.” She clearly did not mean it as a compliment, but I took it as one of the greatest compliments anyone has ever paid me. I grew up as an only child with a violent alcoholic step father
The other day I was on a zoom call with the director of an organization that was considering hiring me to speak to their members about resilience in these challenging covid times and I was telling her about a key element of my talk, the Here and Now brain reward
What a state of affairs – the impending cold winter, covid, computer hell, loneliness, unemployment – so many negative possibilities for us to focus our attention on. As the saying goes, what you focus on grows. Especially in that massive galaxy of 100 billion nerve cells inside all of our skulls. So,