Life Advice

We are all juggling so many balls. Differentiate between glass balls and rubber balls — and don’t be afraid to drop the rubber balls.”

Nothing changes if nothing changes. — Kristine Tobin Balasz, Charlevoix, Mich.

The advice you don’t want to hear is usually the advice you need .

It’s possible, instead, to make a game of gradually increasing your capacity for discomfort, like weight training at the gym. When you expect that an action will be accompanied by feelings of irritability, anxiety or boredom, it’s usually possible to let that feeling arise and fade, while doing the action anyway. The rewards come so quickly, in... See more

Don’t make what someone told you into your narrative.

In order to fall asleep, you pretend to fall asleep. Perhaps that’s how everything works ... cheers to faking it ’til you make it.

Write what’s bothering you down on a piece of paper; put it in a little box. A year later, read what’s in there and see if you don’t start laughing.

Every now and then, someone asks me what my goal is with After School, and my genuine answer is: you’re looking at it! I don’t want to be a girlboss, even though they do appear to be making a comeback in 2026. I don’t want to build a media company or manage anyone or delegate anything.