As a teenager, I used to read magazines and save them.

Early in my career, I used to keep a file of helpful resources that I’d received via email.

In the heyday of blogs, I carefully subscribed to each of my favorites via RSS and, via a feed reader, pored over articles at my desk during lunch. (If I were ten years younger, they’d have been YouTube videos, and if I were ten years younger than that, they’d have been TikToks.)

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I was talking with a friend who has been working with a mindset coach.

She had been sensing a problem with her business and thought that maybe she could be achieving more. Now, she’s trying to figure out what’s next. Some things have become clear, and some are still uncertain.

That will likely always be the case. We never achieve the perfect mindset — we can always keep growing and getting better.

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These days, when I go more than a couple of days without sitting down to write, I feel a little bit off.

It's as though I forgot to take my vitamins or apply sunscreen. I can live without these aspects of my routine, but I prefer not to.

That's how powerful our habits can become: For better or worse, we don't feel like ourselves without them.

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I'm delighted by the prehistoric humans who drew and painted on their cave walls so long ago. Through their art, we can connect with them and learn from them across millennia.

I tolerate the humans who tag bus shelters and train stations with spray paint and carve their names into trees in an arguably less attractive and archaeologically significant way of saying, "I was here."

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Every once in awhile, social media is tempting.

It sounds great in theory. A place where I can meet new people, exchange ideas, find clients for my service, and learn new things? Sign me up!

And then I do sign up, and I don't like the way I feel. I don't like "consuming content." I don't like how the app is designed to keep me using it.

It doesn't feel like human connection. It feels like a dystopian wasteland.

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