Mike "Bagel"

Making Peace with Food: Embracing the Permission Paradox

Summary:

Making peace with food involves understanding that all foods fit, including Oreos.

The fear of never being able to stop eating when given permission to eat anything is often a result of past deprivation. Embracing the permission paradox allows individuals to truly evaluate their desire

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In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.

It’s the dying that does it, always. I started here; I end here (we all end here). It is amazing how the death of someone you love exposes this lie you tell yourself, that there’ll always be time. You can go months or even years without speaking to a dear old friend and feel fine about it, blundering along, living your life. But discover that this... See more

our lives, thanks to their finitude, are inevitably full of activities that we’re doing for the very last time. Just as there will be a final occasion on which I pick up my son—a thought that appalls me, but one that’s hard to deny, since I surely won’t be doing it when he’s thirty—there will be a last time that you visit your childhood home, or... See more

**how DO you…capitalize on this transition to right-size your internal ops?** Simply – reflect and record. Why This Works

While all too easy to turn on scramble mode, putting up a new job posting, and reassigning existing responsibilities, this transitory state provides an ideal opportunity to assess team priorities, output, dynamics, and

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