7 Good Minutes: Extra - True emotional wisdom is not...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Okt 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 Okt 6min