Tag: mindfulness
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Improving Self-Control with Control Points
I’ve lost almost 100 pounds in the last few years. Doing that has taught me a thing or two about self-control. One technique that I find really helpful with self-control is worth mentioning, I think of it as adding “control points.” One of the surest ways that you can get fat it to leave abundant […]
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The Value of Mindfulness
I’ve been thinking about writing something on this topic ever since I left a relevant internet comment at I site I like. But it was David Brooks column on “The Limits of Empathy” that finally spurred me to do it. It spurred me by being so exactly half of the point, while completely missing the […]
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Living in Retrospect
“In retrospect, it was a bad idea.” “One day we’ll look back at this and laugh.” We all understand that our views on things are not fixed forever. That looking back on things with some critical distance from our actions we’ll likely see more clearly what was going on and what the wiser course of […]
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Be Here Now
Sometimes you work very hard to reach a moment of clarifying insight. Sometimes they just fall into your lap. Sometimes that clarifying insight quickly reveals itself to be illusory. To have been too simplistic. Or poorly articulated. Or wrong. But sometimes you sit with that moment of clarity for a bit–spinning it around, looking at […]