7 Good Minutes: Extra - The guardian of the morning mind...

At the end of a flat workday, pick one routine thing you did. Not your biggest win. A report, a delivery, a repair, a phone call.Then ask one question: who is a little better off because this got done...

29 Loka 2min

It's Thursday afternoon. You've answered forty emails, sat through a meeting that could have been a message, and somewhere around three o'clock a quiet question shows up: what is any of this for?A lot...

29 Loka 6min

Someone asks you to take on one more thing, and you feel that small sinking feeling. Before you answer, here's one quick way to slow the moment down.Say, "Let me check and get back to you by tonight,"...

28 Loka 1min

You're walking out of school pickup with a backpack in each hand when another parent asks if you could run the bake sale table on Saturday. Everything in you says no. You hear yourself say, "Sure, no ...

28 Loka 5min

Some nights you drift off without a problem. On others, a sudden kick wakes you just as you’re getting there. If you can’t see why those nights differ, this short exercise gives you a way to look.For ...

27 Loka 2min

The kids are finally down. Your body starts to go heavy, and then your leg kicks as if you missed a step. The jolt is over in a second. The question it leaves behind — is something wrong with me? — ca...

27 Loka 6min

You already know the five-second exchange that ruins an evening — the sharp comment, the sigh, the clipped reply that's still running hours later. This episode is the practical half: what to actually ...

26 Loka 1min

A manager snaps at you in a hallway. A stranger sighs at you in a checkout line. It lasts five seconds, and you know it probably has nothing to do with you — but hours later, walking through your own ...

26 Loka 7min