The Power of Habit
Every morning I drink a large glass of room-temperature water. It’s one of the first things I do. I’ve done it for almost 30 years. I do it without thinking. That is the power of habit. Good habits are an asset. They do two things that super-charge your life. First, because a habit is done automatically and repeatedly, life is set up for it. When I go to bed at night, I make sure a 16-ounce glass is on the kitchen counter with a jug of spring water next to it. In the morning,
The Power of Thoughts
Can genuine joy coexist with heart-rending grief? I doubted it. Not until I experienced it myself would I have believed joy could be so fresh, so vibrant even while grief was so devastating, so painful. It was February 2011—a mere two months after our son’s death. I wondered if the worst of the grief could be passed. While my guess was wrong, my experience of joy and grief coexisting was real. That same month, I met a friend for lunch. While I shared the difficulty of facing
