For Moderators, the first bite tastes the best, and then their pleasure gradually drops, and they might even stop eating before they’re finished. For Abstainers, however, the desire for each bite is j...
Eventually I learned to reject this advice. Somehow, I figured out that it was easier for me to resist certain temptations by never giving in to them.
Each day gave me a new opportunity to push the task off until tomorrow. Tomorrow, I’d feel like dealing with it. Start now, I finally thought. Just take the first step. I started with the smallest pos...
But while it’s true that helping other people makes us happier, and that people feel a distinct helper’s high, it’s also true that when people are unhappy, they often find it tough to help others. If...
In particular, I’d realized that although I possessed all the elements of a happy life, too often I took my circumstances for granted and allowed myself to become overly vexed by petty annoyances or f...
If I feel anxious about the fact that I haven’t started, I become even more reluctant to start, which just makes me more anxious.
I didn’t want to be like the novelist who spent so much time rewriting his first sentence that he never wrote his second.