No matter how fast you travel, you’ll never reach your destination if you’re headed in the wrong direction. Throughout my roughly four decades on this planet, I’ve learned that the best way to live a meaningful life is to align your short-term actions with your long-term values; that is, to make your future self proud of your present self. Otherwise, you’ll careen from one pleasurable experience to another, which might
Self Development
September 22, 2021
How To Leave Work at Work (so You Can Actually Be at Home)
Rituals have been used across cultures and spiritual traditions to help actualize intentions and goals. They are ways to create meaning and mark transitions. Rituals are interspersed into our daily secular lives in ways we may not even notice: beginning a baseball game with the national anthem, for example, or singing “happy birthday.” I trained as a Buddhist nun for many years in Japan, and my life in the monastery
September 19, 2021
Ways to look after your mental health and wellbeing
There are many simple ways to look after your mental health on a daily basis. We are all different and what works for one of us may not work for another. There are little things you can do daily which may help. Here are some things you can try that may help to look after your mental health and wellbeing: Do things with others. Spending time with family or friends,