A skeptical dive into the weird, sketchy, occasionally life-changing world
of self-improvement.
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Yet, after all, why not?
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“Oh man, fuck this.” We were playing Halo on the big screen and I was compulsively checking the small screen in between games when I was all of a sudden fed up, fed up to the point of wanting to hurl the phone across the room and into a lake, or a fire; perhaps a
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Day 21: aaaaarghhhhh
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I nearly made the whole body of the email just “aaaargh” but I opted for not. But man, it was tempting. I just spent the best part of the evening taking turns with My Wife trying to…
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Day 19: it just keeps happening!
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I did a couple of the hard things that my previous email assured readers, courtesy of Ms Rachel, that you can in fact do. I guess this email is proof! I am feeling more testy and scatterbrained…
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Day 18: You Can Do Hard Things
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There’s something I’ve heard that I can’t fully attribute, probably because it’s common sense, or perhaps just sense. I’ve variously heard it from friends and relatives and a therapist and social media memes, and it goes along…
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DAY 17: NEW INTERN
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HI. IT HULK TODAY. JOSH TIRED. JOSH NO REALISE HOW HARD EMAIL EACH DAY IS. JOSH OUTSOURCE EMAIL TO HULK. HULK SMASH KEYBOARD. HULK MAKE MANY TYPOS. HULK MAD! HULK THANKFUL FOR AUTOMATED SPELLING CORRECTION. JOSH SAY:…
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Day 16: a walk in the woods
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If I find myself getting particularly snappish or shrewish or off-centre it’s almost always one of three things: And to this list I am tempted to add a fourth item; Haven’t been touching enough grass. And perhaps…
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Day 15: Some days just don’t work
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I spent the latterly chunk of today despairing of getting nothing done, on account mostly of our youngest’s new habit of being an angel during daylight hours and a shrieking, sleepless imp by night. I’d call it…
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Day 14: The Egyptian Goddess of Irony
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Our family game was always “Balderdash,” a trivia game where all but one answer is made up by the players. It goes a little like this: one player is get handed a card, on which are printed…
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Day 13: finally, a little luck
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It’s a truism that aphorisms never track back to the person who supposedly said them. — Mark Twain.1 Gary Player, a golf player who (for the non-golf players) really is called Gary Player, supposedly coined the aphorism,…
