7 Good Minutes: Extra - Ask This at the Last Red Light Before Home
You're shutting the laptop or sitting at the last red light before your street, and tonight hasn't been decided yet. That's the moment this short exercise uses.Ask one question: what is tonight for? A...
2 Nov 1min
Why the Hours After Work Seem to Vanish
You get home, there's dinner and dishes and someone needs help with something, and you finally sit down to catch your breath. The next time you look up, it's 11:40 — and if someone asked what you did ...
2 Nov 6min
7 Good Minutes: Extra - A Five-Minute Progress Report for the Plan You Keep Talking About
If there's a plan you've talked about more than you've done, this short exercise gives you a different way to share it: report progress to one person instead of collecting applause from everyone.First...
1 Nov 1min
Why Announcing Your Plan Can Make It Harder to Start
You tell the family at dinner that you're getting back into running, three mornings a week. Everyone cheers, and for about an hour you feel like a runner. A month later the new shoes are still in the ...
1 Nov 6min
7 Good Minutes: Extra - A Fair Hearing: Four Lines for When You Keep Picturing the Worst
When something you want to do keeps setting off the same worst-case film in your head, you can treat it as one prediction among several instead of the realistic one.This five-minute practice is called...
31 Okt 1min
Why the Worst Case Feels Like the Realistic One
You've been meaning to ask your manager about leaving at three on Thursdays for school pickup. Every time you think about it, the same short film plays: a flat face, a pause, a polite no. So you don't...
31 Okt 7min
7 Good Minutes: Extra - The Small Trip: Get a Little Vacation Feeling Every Week
The good feeling from a vacation usually fades within about a week of getting home. Three of the things that helped create it can come back in smaller doses: something to look forward to, something ne...
30 Okt 2min
Why the Vacation Feeling Fades So Fast Once You're Home
It's the first Monday back. The suitcase is still half unpacked in the hallway, there's sand in a shoe somewhere, and by Wednesday the trip already feels like it happened to someone else.If the good f...
30 Okt 6min
