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How Your Fellow Travelers Make Your Life Better (or Worse)

How Your Fellow Travelers Make Your Life Better (or Worse)

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After several minutes, I was sure that the Prius was following me.

Actually, I felt pretty good about that. Here in Silicon Valley, people—and their cars—move fast. It was nice to know that at least somebody other than me wanted to use less gas and decrease their carbon footprint.

Ah, I thought, a fellow traveler.

Then, in that quirky way that the mind sometimes works, mine unexpectedly thought about Ralph Steadman, an artist whose angry, grotesque images are associated with the work of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson. [Read more…]

7 Coping Strategies for the Holidays (and Other Days) — Better Life

7 Coping Strategies for the Holidays (and Other Days) — Better Life

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A toolkit for moving your holidays away from stress, closer to calm and—dare we say it?—joy

We live in a hectic world that weighs us down with a heavy list of expectations, duties, and messages–many of them contradictory, some of them unhealthy. And it only gets worse during the period that begins with Thanksgiving and continues until we have survived the tender mercies of the New Year.

What follows are seven different strategies that will, depending on your circumstances, help you get through the holiday season a little easier. They are all simple, practical actions you can take that provide immediate benefits. They are based on sound psychological principles, scientific research, and my own personal experience. [Read more…]

How to Change: Learn by Doing

How to Change: Learn by Doing

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NOTE: This is the follow-up to the popular “3 Undeniable Facts That Prove You Can Make Your Life Better”

The year is 1979. I’m 25 years old, smart but terribly shy.

I’ve just moved to a small town in New Hampshire, population 5,000.

My new job is a knife-thin layer of icing on top of a thick cake of despair. I don’t know a soul here, and I don’t know how to make friends. Loneliness burns through me like the cold of a sharp New England night.

It’s close to 9 PM. I’m looking for sandwich meat at the A&P, and the fluorescents overhead make me feel drained and a little unreal. [Read more…]