Ideas are free, execution is priceless.

There’s a concept in the conservation world called the waste hierarchy. It’s the order of priority of actions to be taken to reduce the amount of waste generated, and to improve overall waste management processes and programs. You’ve probably heard it before. Reduce, reuse, recycle. This concept first poked its head out of the trash pile and seeped into the cultural consciousness in the early seventies. Vietnam caused citizens…

An allergy is a hypersensitivity to a specific substance. It’s a condition in where body’s immune system reacts abnormally to a foreign element, resulting in everything from hives to rashes to headaches to difficulty breathing. As someone who’s been allergic to cats, dogs, ragweed and dust for his whole life, this ain’t no joke. Allergies can be debilitating. Quick history lesson, the word allergy has been around only since…

According to the standard classification of mental disorders used by health professionals, workaholism is not included as a nonsubstance addiction. This distinction provoked a simmering debate in the therapeutic community. There are scores of mental health professionals and civilians alike who don’t recognize it as a problem. Because to them, workaholism no different than, say, caffeine addiction. In my opinion, the problem is that people are asking the wrong…

Think about how long most people hold onto the residue of negative or even mediocre experience. They prosecute themselves for crimes past and preoccupy themselves with next time, thinking about how it’s going to be different. Both of these ruminations cheat them out of the present moment, which is the only place joy and meaning are available. Take lunch at work. You grab a crappy sandwich and bring it…

Hypnotists, magicians and persuasion experts teach us that a confused person is in a trance of their own making. When someone can’t quite figure something out, their brain’s need for closure and resolution creates an activated expectation. That makes them much more suggestible without resistance, which explains all that dancing around like a chicken on a stage in front of thousands of strangers. But although the state of momentary…