Last Friday afternoon, I locked my bike to a sign next to the trail and…
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A Psychologist Rates The Strategies I Use To Deal With Stress And Anxiety
Like you, I am trying to get better at dealing with stress and anxiety. I…
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Weren’t We Lucky
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Why We Can Still Listen To “What’s Going On” 50 Years Later
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Zen And The Act Of Washing Dishes
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An Illustrated Story About Anxiety
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A Bicycle Crash
In my memory of the house, which is from when I was much smaller, the…
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How To Show Up
I looked at the menu at a booth in Morg’s, a diner in Waterloo, Iowa,…
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Make 2020 The Year Of Maximum Enthusiasm
Note: I first wrote and published this post on December 29, 2011, calling it “Make…
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Choose Wonder
The South Rim of the Grand Canyon can be a magical place: You stand with…
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Remember When We Were Young?
Mark and I sat in the front window of a Denver coffee shop, talking about…
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Morning Rituals For The Reasonably Productive And Moderately Successful
You may have heard or read a lot about the morning rituals of high-functioning people—CEOs,…
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Ski Boots Are Ridiculous, Long Live Ski Boots
You know what this ritual feels like: You loosen every buckle on your ski boots,…
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Yes, A Friend Can Make Miserable Things Less Miserable
I trudge forward, the muddy road tugging at my running shoes, splattering my ankles and…
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Lessons From Eight Years Of Writing An Adventure Blog
One afternoon last August, a delivery truck rolled up outside my house in Denver. Two…
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Experience The Joy of Not Bringing The Noise
Here’s a crazy story: I spent four and a half hours outdoors alone the other…
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Make 2019 The Year Of Maximum Enthusiasm
Note: I first wrote and published this post on December 29, 2011, calling it “Make…
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A Simple Way To Write Your Own Ending To 2018
If you’re anything like most of us, another year ending means a lot of things:…
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Why Finish Lines Will Get You Every Time
I didn’t know why it happened. I was doing OK until the guy with the…
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I’m Meditating (I’m Just Not Sitting Down)
I tried. For a while, it seemed like everyone was talking about how meditation changed…
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Gratitude And An Honest Mountain Wedding
Here’s one thing we always say about weddings: “It’s the biggest day of your life.”…
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Nostalgia Is A Mother
Last Wednesday, around the ninth switchback in the M Trail at the University of Montana,…
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Learning To Be Funny
Probably every other time my friend Lee and I came to the end of an…
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What Happens When You Leave Cell Service Behind
Here’s a thing you may have experienced: You’re about to head out on a trip…
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Summit Day
A couple hundred feet from the top of Avalanche Gulch on Mount Shasta last Monday…
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The Gas Tank Is 1/4 Full, Or 3/4 Empty
Just east of Green River, Utah, on Interstate 70, I looked over from the passenger…
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