#317

Cultivate insight. Learn to appreciate, if not celebrate, uncomfortable emotions.

#314

Cultivate serenity and insight. Experiment with distanced self-talk to calm mental chatter and decrease stress.

#309

Cultivate curiosity and insight. Learn about a philosophical or faith tradition you are unfamiliar with.

#294

Cultivate joy and insight. Journal every day for a week. Answer the question: what did I do today to take care of myself? What can I do tomorrow to support myself more?

#289

Cultivate insight. Take a seminar or read about working with difficult people.

#270

Cultivate health and insight. Toxic productivity is pervasive in graduate school. It destroys mental health, steals joy, increases anxiety, and denies us satisfaction in our activities. It destroys physical health by increasing our stress response, preventing relaxation, and forcing the body to perform even when it is depleted. Take 15 minutes to research toxic productivity […]

#269

Cultivate insight. Think about this time in your life last year. Write a list of 5 skills you’ve improved and 3 things you’ve learned since then.

#268

Cultivate insight. Identify an emotion you would like to experience more often. Think about the time in your life you felt that emotion. What activities did you do that contributed to your experience of it? Can you bring more of those activities into your life?

#265

Cultivate insight. Take 10 minutes to write on the questions: What do you need to be satisfied with your life? What are you satisfied with already? Look at the needs you’ve identified. If you’re not satisfied. Pick one small activity that you can do to be more satisfied.

#255

Cultivate joy and insight. Start a bucket list on beautiful stationary (real or digital).