write down the times of each activity and how long they last. But what's most important are the activities themselves.

Your ability to pay your bills might depend on whether your hunt for the next freelance gig is successful.

When your projects are clearly tied to your strategy and your strategy is clearly tied to your vision and your vision is clearly tied to your values, you know that what you're working on really, really matters.

health precarity, interpersonal precarity, home and housing precarity, and other forms of uncertainty and instability. Precarity isn't a personal failing—although it's often perceived as such.

describes what happens as a result: “our lives become about the struggle to keep up.” She continues, “To truly feel our experience with depth and presence, we would have to slow down a lot (which would make us less efficient consumers, students, workers, prisoners, soldiers…).”

goals become a sort of technology for self-erasure. We learn to recognize all the ways we don't fit in and the rungs we haven't yet climbed and define our future selves against those traits. We rarely—if ever—stop to think whether the things we're not are actually a core part of who we are. And that's not just a personal problem. It ripples out int

Activities with ameliorative value are those that prevent something bad from happening or occur in response to something bad happening.

Growth, change, creating cool stuff—it

When I'm truly engaging those critical thinking skills, I'm much less likely to blame myself for failure. I'm less likely to fixate on my own shortcomings and how to overcome them. Critical thinking created a more satisfying life for me than positive thinking ever could.