As in the teachings of the Buddha, there are two arrows. The first arrow that strikes is procrastination itself, in the form of myriad activities we can turn to while avoiding our tasks—scrolling instead of studying, watching TV instead of working, browsing shopping sites instead of writing. Procrastination might not be new, but the number and attr

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We now have our first building block. We can pay attention to our responses to events and the stories we tell ourselves about them. We can check to see if we are increasing the pain caused by a negative event by exacerbating things and searching for negative patterns, rather than simply accepting first impressions and events as they are. We can tak

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Ordinarily, life is a bit like a trampoline — you bounce from one reaction to another. When you suppress reactions, you push that energy into your body. Over time, the result is suffering and illness in your body. When you give expression to your reactions, you dump that energy into the world. Others experience your emotional reactions and you do n

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