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I was recently editing an interview I recorded last year with Vibha, a gratitude teacher from India, and it reminded me how important it is to weave gratitude into each day, and how easy it actually is. I don't have a formal practice, although gratitude shows up in my journal often enough. Where it shows up most is outside. I stop and notice, with wonder and awe, whenever I'm out in nature, and that can be as close as my backyard or a walk around the neighborhood. In those mo

I set a timer to remind myself to get up and move. That's the plan, anyway. What sometimes happens when I hit a good stretch of work, is that the timer goes off, and instead of getting up, I turn it off and keep going. I tell myself I'll get up at the next natural stopping point. Sometimes that point doesn't arrive for another hour. I've even done the same thing with something as basic as needing to use the bathroom. I tell myself I will stop as soon as I get this one thing d

I work outside on nice days, which is exactly what I was doing when an ant landed on my keyboard carrying something several times its own body size. It’s the end of summer, and it seems like the wind is blowing in the next season. Leaves, needles and seeds litter the ground around me. As I watched the ant, it looked confused, not sure where it was, what had happened and if it should resume carrying its item. After about a minute or two, it left what it was carrying and start

I'm currently reading Ready, Set, Slow by Lee Holden, a Qi Gong master and licensed acupuncturist who spends the whole book making a pretty radical case: you get more done, not less, when you slow down. I learned this the hard way. My body forced me to slow down, an actual hard stop that lasted years, on the heels of over a decade of hustle, the antithesis of slowing down. I always found it amusing when I asked patients and clients what they did for relaxation. "Relaxation?"

TikTok has a workout for you. So does YouTube, Instagram, your coworker who just discovered calisthenics, and approximately every fitness brand that has ever existed. There is no shortage of content telling you to start a routine - HIIT, tai chi, mobility flows, the latest 30-day challenge. We are more bombarded with fitness information than at any point in history, and somehow that has made it harder, not easier, to know what actually matters. And yet. Most people who sit at

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What is an exercise snack? Exercise snacks are short bouts of movement (rather than food snacks) sprinkled into your day. Movement has...