Personal growth
The goal is not
Habits and identity are connected in the way I think about goals. Finishing one task matters, but so does becoming someone who returns to…
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Personal growth
A promise kept. A question asked. Something you finally begin. I write about personal growth through choices you can recognise in an ordinary day. Start with self-respect and the promises you keep or turning an intention into a next step.
When the next step feels difficult, explore acting while you are still afraid. When you need another perspective, try choosing a book for the question you are living with.
Personal growth
My biggest challenge: Sleep
These Why We Sleep notes began with a personal difficulty: getting myself to bed. I wanted to understand sleep more deeply, just as reading…
Personal growth
Don’t take yourself too seriously, that’s why:
Take yourself less seriously: that is the reminder behind this reflection on time, possessions and the experiences we cannot keep. I return to it…
Personal growth
It never ends
Managing an endless to-do list starts with how I understand the work in front of me. A joke about the constant demands of adulthood…
Personal growth
How I reduced smartphone screen time: my Nokia experiment
My 2021 experiment: moving my SIM cards to a Nokia, leaving the iPhone at the office, and the four weeks of screen-time figures I reported.
Personal growth
The universe is amazing
Synchronicity and taking action meet in a question I ask myself: do I need more information, or a decision to use what I already…
Personal growth
Biologo-Detox: why I still recommend it, and what the evidence says
Why I still recommend a supplement that helped me in 2021, and what I found when I checked its detox claims in 2026.
Personal growth
The Earthing Movie: why I still recommend earthing
Why I still recommend earthing, especially with meditation and time in nature, and what the research on earthing shows, including its limits and safety notes.
Personal growth
I challenge you to be an Athlete!
Actually, I don’t! Because if you start this as a challenge, you will most probably fail. Because that’s not the way how habits are…
Personal growth
Everything is connected.
The more we read, the more we can connect the things around us. Because everything is connected. What has been seen can’t be unseen.…