No, that is not my car. 🙂 But some days I felt like it could be. I was about ready to throw in the towel this week and not write an article. We closed on a condo this week after 4 days of delay, I slept on an air mattress…

Intermittent fasting is the act of constraining our eating time to a specific period of time, such as 8 hours in each day. The other 16 hours is the fasting period, when no calories should be consumed. Intermittent fasting has become a popular practice for weight loss. It also is…

This week I am thinking about technology and the impact it has on our life. Is there a way I can leverage technology to make myself more antifragile? Technology can definitely make us fragile — just like anything that we rely too heavily on and becomes a must have to…

Last week I attended a seminar hosted by Thanh Pham, the creator of the company called Asian Efficiency. His approach to his business is to provide what i call “life hacks” that help people be more productive. Simple things like turning on the copy history on your Mac or PC…

This morning I woke up thinking I need to find some good “antifragile” quotes to help me and others get our head around what it means to be antifragile. These 5 quotes from James Clear’s 3–2–1 email series helped me capture it best. “If an idea is true, criticism will…

In the past 2 weeks I talked about my morning habits of reading and meditation (Breath and cold). Today I will zero in on one of my other focus areas — my physical health. For me, at this point in my journey, it is strengthening my shoulders. My shoulders have…

Morning Habit — Breath and Cold Habit 2 of a Series In my article last week I talked about my morning habit of reading. I love waking up, having a cup of coffee and picking up my NOOK or my book and reading for 20 minutes to a half hour…

This is a series of articles about components of my morning routine (you could call them “morning habits”) that I find useful for staying mentally healthy in life. I have written about being “antifragile” in a previous article, and some of these activities help keep me antifragile… meaning to not…

After reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s book, “Antifragile — Things that Gain from Disorder”, I decided the concept was too important to just move on without really applying it to my life and sharing that experience and knowledge with you. …