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2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016

2022

• Dec 26 2022 personal review: lessons, losses, and victories

2021

• Dec 28 2021 personal review: lessons, losses, and victories
• Aug 25 The tension between money and happiness
• Jun 4 Why change is so f*cking hard
• Mar 23 Starting a new dream: how I navigated a mid life career change and found my path in my 30s (and a few practical tips on finding yours, too).

2020

• Dec 28 2020 personal review: lessons, losses, victories, and books
• Dec 2 On being nice to yourself: 3-steps to self-compassion
• Oct 20 Finding light in the darkness: 7 questions to help you navigate the difficult times ahead
• Aug 21 Owning my mistakes: 6 ideas I’ve changed my mind about
• Jul 23 Learning to suffer productively
• Jul 2 What are the Five Best Moments of Your Life So Far?
• Jun 15 Mindfulness meditation class recordings (and sign up)
• Jun 2 Calling my shot part 2: embracing the grey
• Jun 2 Black Lives Matter
• Mar 30 Finding mental health during times of uncertainty
• Feb 4 I’ve changed (and why I’m taking a few months off from writing)

2019

• Dec 19 2019 personal review: lessons, losses, victories, and books
• Oct 30 Embracing the void: lessons about pain, confusion, and guidance from a later mentor
• Oct 2 On the beauty of setting boundaries and drowning out the world
• Aug 7 When the world won’t stop beating you down
• Jul 15 A mental model to boost happiness and productivity
• Jun 17 Harnessing the fires of anger
• Jun 3 Finding your path part 2: 7 questions to help you on your way
• Apr 16 The secrets we don’t share: lessons about pain and belonging from a late mentor
• Mar 29 Finding your path part 1: what it’s like to miss the mark
• Mar 1 Five seconds for a fleeting burst of joy
• Jan 25 An open letter to life coaches and psychotherapists: Why I’m going back to school

2018

• Dec 18 2018 personal review: lessons, losses, and victories
• Dec 5 Embracing your dark edges
• Nov 20 30 ways to set boundaries: a guide for people pleasers
• Nov 7 The mechanics of your mind
• Oct 23 The curse of moderate success
• Oct 9 Sneaking up on happiness
• Sep 25 Using gratitude to shape your future
• Sep 17 Getting out of a rut part 2: overcoming the hidden fear and self-sabotage that’s holding you back
• Sep 10 Getting out of a rut part 1: emotional spring-cleaning
• Jul 27 Eight ways to improve your people skills
• Jul 2 It’s ok to not be ok from time to time
• May 30 The art of suffering: how to use pain to improve your life
• Apr 19 Putting yourself back together: guidance for when life collapses
• Mar 20 Permission to dream small
• Feb 14 How to avoid burnout, beat stress, and find calm amidst the storm (a guide for when life gets crazy)
• Jan 9 Why I turned comments off

2017

• Dec 21 2017 personal review: lessons, losses, and victories
• Nov 17 Staring the human condition straight in the eye
• Oct 26 How to make friends as an adult: a guide to finding and connecting with people you love
• Oct 10 Why following your passions is bad career advice
• Sep 19 Being cool with being normal
• Sep 5 Why does success feel so empty?
• Aug 22 How to affect change in your country (even when things suck)
• Aug 7 Living in a world where your body is obscene
• Jul 26 How to quit (and why it leads to happiness)
• Jul 13 How to find a good therapist (and my experience with an abusive one)
• Jun 29 The hidden agony of men and their mental health
• Jun 13 What no one tells you about leaving the beaten path
• May 30 Overcoming low self-worth
• May 15 What happens when you put life ahead of work for a year?
• Apr 29 How to overcome the need to be a people-pleaser
• Apr 17 On relationships, awareness, and compassion
• Apr 1 My five best pranks
• Mar 21 Blogging year 1: how I went from 0 to 66,029 readers and what I learned along the way
• Mar 10 Reminders to myself part II: notes for the good times
• Mar 1 What happens when you’re completely honest for a year?
• Feb 19 Becoming a giver: the most important lesson in a decade
• Feb 2 Beautiful imperfection: the path to self-love
• Jan 23 There is no path: lessons from a monk and a billionaire
• Jan 9 Why I’ve lost faith in Tony Robbins (and most life coaches)

2016

• Dec 27 2017: the year of hell yeah or guilt free no
• Dec 16 2016 personal review: the victories, losses, and lessons
• Dec 5 A guide to meditation: how to do it, how it changed me, its risks, and more…
• Nov 23 How to draw the good out of people (and yourself)
• Nov 13 On finding the strength to get back up
• Nov 2 How to make hard conversations easier (and why I had five in one day)
• Oct 23 Why I won’t vote for a third party this year
• Oct 13 3 days of silence
• Oct 3 Letting go of a dream: why I left professional speaking
• Sep 22 The emotional imprisonment of the modern male
• Sep 12 Defeating your inner critic
• Sep 2 Escaping the prison of unworthiness
• Aug 22 The truth about entrepreneurship
• Aug 8 Reminders to myself
• Jul 28 How to understand, cultivate, and focus your energy
• Jul 18 On life, death, and the moment
• Jun 21 The art of giving back: an unconventional approach to negotiation
• Jun 8 What to do when the world grows dark
• May 27 You’re not broken: the hidden dangers of personal development
• May 15 How I transformed my life: a guide to personal reinvention
• May 5 Getting to know yourself: eleven questions for deepening self-awareness
• Apr 25 Don’t trust me. Trust you. A guide to overcoming self-doubt.
• Apr 15 How to handle the emotional chaos of change
• Mar 31 Looking for happiness? First, let the crippling pain of existence destroy you.
• Mar 23 On giving up alcohol for a year
• Mar 14 Loving yourself is really f***ing hard: here’s how to do it
• Mar 11 Calling my shot…