After my third TEDx talk a few days ago, spoke to a couple that told me how much they reduced waste but wouldn’t consider anything more. People love considering the biggest things immune from consideration, like flying or heating their homes to 70 degrees in the winter and cooling them to 60 in the summer, leaving the air conditioner on while they’re out just so it’s cool for thirty seconds[…] Keep reading →

In this episode I describe how important I consider the accessibility of my personal behavior solutions — a matter of integrity, not to be confused with behavior to influence others, which is a matter of leadership. Here are my notes I read from for this episode. I recommend reviewing my memes on famous people saying what everyone says about acting on the environment. Access and its importance to me. Food[…] Keep reading →

In this episode I describe how important I consider the accessibility of my personal behavior solutions — a matter of integrity, not to be confused with behavior to influence others, which is a matter of leadership. Here are my notes I read from for this episode. I recommend reviewing my memes on famous people saying what everyone says about acting on the environment. Access and its importance to me. Food[…] Keep reading →

Yesterday’s post answered the best time to exercise in the morning. What if you exercise in the evening too or instead? The beginning of that post—why exercise, listing the benefits, and so on—apply here. No need to repeat everything up to “First things first.” Alternative 1: Just before bed The latest option is to exercise last before going to bed. Many ask if getting your heart rate up might keep[…] Keep reading →

Say you exercise in the morning. When is the best time for it? First, what’s the point of morning exercises? Fitness? Yes, you can’t leave fitness out, and if you don’t impose on yourself a healthy daily challenging activity, you might expect the point of the specific activity to be the main goal. It’s not—not in the long term. The goals of daily morning exercise include in the long term[…] Keep reading →

In today’s video I read from the book The Once and Future World by J. B. MacKinnon and comment on our world from its perspective. From the book page: Calling for an ‘age of rewilding,’ author J.B. MacKinnon steps back in time to discover a living planet more abundant than anyone had imagined— and an inspiration to remake a wilder world today. A national bestseller in Canada; winner of the[…] Keep reading →

Thrive Global is launching a meditation podcast and asked its contributors, including me, to write stories on meditation. I updated my 2009 post Jumping for Joy. The new story is also called Jumping for Joy. My Thrive Global piece begins . . . By the second day at a recent five-day silent meditation retreat, the mental static of everyday thoughts had mostly passed. Silent meant the whole shebang: no reading,[…] Keep reading →