Anyone who has seen Saturday Night Live is familiar with Stuart Smalley, a fictional character portrayed by comedian Al Franken. Smalley participates in many sketches but one of my favorites was a mock-self improvement show called “Daily Affirmations with Stuart Smalley”.
I was having a conversation with a friend of mine about the blog the other day when she half-jokingly said, “I bet there aren’t any business tools or philosophies that you have applied with respect to how to get a six-pack?”
If you think about it, our brains are kind of like our favorite dogs, they obey us and do whatever they can to please us. If we tell them to focus hard on a certain task for 5 hours straight, they do and if we tell them to work 60 or 70 hours a week,
Within the past year, I was a little desperate to figure out how to fall back asleep upon being woken in the middle of the night. So, I set out to do some research to see if I could find the gold standard for how to fall back asleep.
Until 2015 when she passed away at the age of 117 in a care facility in Osaka, Japan, Misao Okawa was the oldest living person in the world.
