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You start out with the best of intentions: get up, do some exercise, make breakfast, get on with your day. You know how good it will feel when you check all those things off your to-do list and can ju...
âThese are the good old daysâ - Carly Simon (Anticipation, 1971)
Iâm as guilty as anyone. I can allow myself to focus on what I donât have, what I am working to create, to be. I can fall into a âdefici...
Iâll come right out with it: I donât have an MFA.
Neither doesâor didâStephen King, Don DeLillo, Cormac McCarthy, Neil Gaiman, or Dan Brown.
From Hemingway to Heinlein, Tolstoy to Tolkien, Salinger to S...
In 1888, Friedrich Nietzsche published Twilight of the Idols, in which he wrote: âWas mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker.â (What doesnât kill me makes me stronger.)
This sentiment was a critical p...
The What-If Mindshift: Why your brain defaults to fearâand how to train it to imagine opportunity.
âYou can âwhat-ifâ yourself to death,â she said.
She was right, of course. Iâm an INFP, a first-born, a...
You are on a long journey and you finally reach your destination. Now what, now that you have arrived? Should you continue?
Youâve planned this adventure for a long time. Weeks or months; maybe most of...
This article is the last in my mini-series on fear, stress and anxiety.
In the United States today, nearly 100 million adultsâmore than 40 percent of the populationâregularly use some chemical substanc...
You are. Miraculous, that is.
If you are reading or hearing this, you are here, alive and conscious. And that, my friends, is truly a miracle, because there is no rational explanation for itâfor you.
I ...
Itâs easy to feel âless than,â especially in todayâs world, where every time you doom scroll your social media feed you are bombarded with tales of the (apparently) rich, carefree and famous. You prob...
Letâs just get it over with; think the unthinkable and speak the unspeakable:
Youâre afraid.
Iâm afraid. Everyone is afraid.
If you donât think youâre afraid, itâs because low-level (or more) fear has be...
The seasons change quickly where I live. Iâve been aware of this for some time, but this year, I tried to catch it. To mark the exact day that it happens. I have a thesis: If we pay more attention to ...
The lack of meaning in life is a soul-sickness whose full extent and import our age has not yet begun to comprehend. - C.G. Jung
Ask people to list the most important things in life, and you will typic...
There is no shortage of important discussion topics in the personal transformation/self-improvement/positive psychology world in which I work. My current focus is on helping people who are facing majo...
NOTE: This article is longer than my usual Mindset Monday posts, but there are a lot of new people coming to the Hardcore Happiness community, and I just (August, 2025, as I write this) launched a Har...
The most basic right is to defend yourself, to protect your life. So what happens when the enemy is you? You still have to fight back!
A Dangerous Foe
We have met the enemy, and he is us.
What is you...
