Collective importance

Amid what feels like endless meetings or Zoom calls, dismissing some as unimportant and a waste of time is easy. However, what may seem insignificant to you could hold immense value to someone else. Our own needs and satisfaction do not solely determine the importance...

Be the boss

You have no option. You have no agency. You have no choice. If that is true, you may need to quit. You do likely have options, agency, and choice. What instead is true is we would rather complain about how others are suppressing ourselves rather than take the...

Attribute success

You have attained so much. You have a promising career, are well respected, created wealth, and even reached personal milestones across activities, hobbies, and knowledge attainment. Your achievements are tremendous – well done! You are a success, and it is all...

When minnows win

Yesterday, the Morocco football team was the first African national team to progress to a World Cup semifinal. It is not a glamorous team that anyone assumed would make it out of the group’s stages: no global superstars and many players who play for smaller...

People diets

When we seek to get into shape, we inevitably undertake a combination of strategies that result in a restriction of calories, including reducing food intake or seeking ways to burn more calories through exercise. Ultimately the intent is a calorie deficit. Over time,...