7 Good Minutes: Extra - A Two-Minute Short List for the Small Stuff That Grabs You
A snippy text, a passing comment, a small mistake you can’t stop replaying. Something minor grabs you, and the rest of the evening follows it.This short exercise sets up a two-minute short list: no mo...
3 Nov 1min
Why Small Things Take Over Your Whole Evening
It’s a quarter past six, dinner is half made, and a message from the school parents’ group sounds a little pointed. Maybe even pointed at you. You read it twice, start a reply, delete it, and keep wri...
3 Nov 7min
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
