Pragmatism and perfectionism

• Fixing things is empowering. Our confidence increases or decreases based on our ability to make progress. 
• Any progress builds momentum (and your mood): No matter how small the task is, crossing it off your to-do list gives you a boost of momentum and enhances your mood...

Too many of us expect a future event (“I’ll be happy when I get that promotion”) to make us happy, instead of looking more deeply into the real causes of our unhappiness. 

If you don’t fix what’s going on inside, no external event or item is going to make you happy, no matter how much yo...

We can't make any choice knowing if it will or won't be what's best for us, and so we should not look for or expect any ultimate answers that will.

This doesn't mean that we should not engage in, consume, consider, or share ideas, research, and philosophies about life, but we should...