Would you rather be your current age with your current life, or a billionaire with only a year left to live? I can’t ever imagine choosing the money unless my life was miserable and…

What if spending less money actually made your life better? That idea feels backwards in a culture that equates spending with happiness. Yet many people who live frugally report feeling lighter, calmer, and more…

What if the very thing holding you back isn’t the size of your goals, but their smallness? In recent years, there’s been a growing appreciation for small goals. Modest aims that are achievable every…

What did the American frontier understand about life that we seem to be forgetting? When people look back on the American frontier, they often focus on the imagery. Wide open land. Long journeys. Isolated…

My wife is the one who finally convinced me that routines aren’t restrictive—they’re freeing. At her urging, I put together a short morning checklist. It’s simple enough that I no longer need to write…

I’m going to say something mildly controversial: our grandparents were better at life than we are. Not smarter. Not more enlightened. Just better at the boring, practical stuff that actually matters—feeding a family, managing…

Have you ever felt like life has gotten a little too predictable? You wake up, go to work, do the same handful of tasks, eat the same foods, and unwind with the same habits…

Many people coast through life on auto-pilot for years or decades of their life. They’re not “checked out” exactly, but not nearly as engaged as they could be on a minute-by-minute level. I’ve had…

Every millennial guy goes through their “productivity hacks” phase of life, and it turns out I’m no exception. Just out of college I realized I wasn’t very good at managing my own time, and…

The brain is a dynamic organ made of neurons and other types of cells. With every experience, your brain is changed and reshaped in countless ways, constantly optimizing itself to the environment you put…

If you’re married, your marriage is one of the most important relationships in your life. The success of your marriage will likely dictate how things are going in every area of your life, and…

In our first two years of marriage I took minimalism so far that it became a point of tension between my wife and I, and a frequent point of debate with my friends. Looking…