How to Break Free From Your Phone Addiction
If you’re like me and know that you have a problem with spending too much time on your phone, there are practical ways to reduce your screen time.
The New Year is Meaningless
I know that January 1st isn’t magical, but it’s still effective in spurring people into action. Perhaps the secret to achieving goals, creating habits, catalyzing change, and improving oneself is in making the mundane magical.
Even though the new year is an arbitrary and meaningless date on the calendar, and even though the year 2020 is nothing more than coincidental numbers – you can still inject enough meaning into it to make it useful for creating the changes you want.
How I Redeem My Regrets
Use your past mistakes as fuel to create your future It happens when my mind is most idle. While I’m …
20 Self-Reflection Questions for Personal Growth in 2020
As we transition from 2019 into 2020, take some time to go through these personal reflection questions. They’ll help you identify the high points and low points of different areas of your life, along with nuances on how you perceived those experience and what you can learn from them.
How to Let Go of Sentimental Things
If you’ve ever tried to adopt minimalism on any scale, you know how difficult it can be. We develop strong attachments to the objects we own. But when we have to make the tough decision to let them go, there are a few ways to make the process easier.
How I Form Gratitude, Joy, & Resilience by Thinking About Death
Throughout life, all of us have unbearable moments. They could be physically or mentally agonizing. We can’t wait for it to be over. But there’s a simple thought exercise that helps me get through it with gratitude: death.
Can We Trust Law Enforcement?
I witnessed police brutality Driving through Los Angeles in heavy traffic one afternoon, I heard helicopters flying overhead. Looking in …
Why Do Christians Hate the Environment?
That may sound like a harsh or exaggerated statement, but it really isn’t. Christians don’t just ignore environmental action, they put effort into vehemently opposing it.
“Christians” is a broad generalization here. I’m referring more specifically to American, conservative, Republican Evangelical Christians. But they do have a loud voice in both American and global faith and often shape what “mainstream” Christianity is.
Caught Between Morality and Legality at the Border
The Sanchez family is from a Central American country that’s overrun by drug cartels. A drug gang had taken over the village where the Sanchez family lived. Rafael, the husband and father of the family, refused to work for the gang. He received threats and was beaten. He feared his family might be tortured or killed.
So he made the decision to take his eldest son Alberto and make the dangerous journey to the US.
3 Ways to Be a Better Traveler and Tourist
This summer, you’ll most likely be traveling in some way. While a lot of posts teach you about being a …