Patience

Art of Attention: Practice Yoga? Teach Yoga? Think About Yoga? Read This.

Elena Brower | Posted 12.02.2009 | Living


Elena Brower

Form and Function within yoga. Together, they are a complete practice. One without the other is a downright limiting of our potential -- and an incomplete class experience.

Balanced Life -- Embrace The Update, Or, Why Is It So Hard To Turn On The TV?

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 11.14.2009 | Living


Gretchen Rubin

Novelty and challenge bring happiness, true, but they also bring frustration, anxiety, and sometimes a bit of cursing.

Patience

Ariane de Bonvoisin | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living


Ariane de Bonvoisin

Today, ask yourself if the best thing to do with what you've been struggling with is simply to wait.

No Whining, No Griping, No Complaining: Take the Challenge and Reap the Rewards!

Lissa Coffey | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living


Lissa Coffey

There's an organization that is challenging us to go 21 days without a complaint! Can we do it? I'm certainly going to give it a shot.

The Long Term Benefits Of Self Discipline

newyorker.com | Jonah Lehrer | Posted 06.21.2009 | Living


According to Walter Mischel, this view of will power also helps explain why the marshmallow task is such a powerfully predictive test. "If you can dea...

Discovering My Abhorrence of 'Tangential Thinking'

Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 05.10.2009 | Living


Susan Smalley, Ph.D.

I'm not a very tangential thinker and tend to grow impatient with others who do not see things as clearly and as quickly as I might. That arrogant way of thinking hit me hard on Sunday.

Where Do Ideas Come From?

Lee Schneider | Posted 05.01.2009 | Living


Lee Schneider

I believe that ideas come from having a prepared mind, and yet there is that undefined something that makes me wonder if a larger consciousness comes into play.

Happy Birthday To A New Found Patience

Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 03.22.2009 | Living


Susan Smalley, Ph.D.

Equanimity is the state of mind revealed by the joy of patience with life that emerges from the frantic wings of flight of the 20s, 30s, and 40s to just stay aloft.

Like Solitaire and Puzzles? Play New Pyramid Game!

Pyramid | www.mochiads.com | Posted 03.16.2009 | Comedy


The addictive international hit you just cannot stop playing. In Pyramid the aim is to clear as many card lay-ups as possible by removing all the card in the Pyramid. Just pick a card that is one value higher or lower to clear them and you might get all the Golden scarabs. It's so easy to start but so hard to stop!

On Mastery

Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 03.14.2009 | Living


Arthur Rosenfeld

Has mastery become an old-fashioned notion? Mastery takes time, something most of us have trouble finding. It takes discipline, a quality in short supply today.

Why You Should Always Read The Instruction Manual

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 12.10.2008 | Living


Gretchen Rubin

I'm working on my Happiness Project, and you could have one, too! Everyone's project will look different, but it's the rare person who can't benefit. ...

The Five Year -- Oh Forget It Already

Richard Laermer | Posted 05.27.2008 | Living


Richard Laermer

Once upon a time, everyone -- not just irate Soviet dictators and worried undergraduates -- had a Five Year Plan. So what the hell happened?