This past weekend, 580 people in Milwaukee did something that seems almost too simple to be true: they played board games for a weekend and raised over $46,000 for cancer care at Aurora Healthcare. That's it. They showed up, did something they love to do, and walked...
Posts about Intentional Living
What If Your Goals Were Experiments Instead?
I was listening to a recent episode of All The Hacks, Chris Hutchins' personal finance and life optimization podcast, and his guest was Anne-Laure Le Cunff, a neuroscientist, former Google executive, and founder of the Ness Labs newsletter. She was talking about her...
Ruthless Prioritization: Doing Less to Accomplish More
If you have five things on your to do list today, how do you ensure you get them all done? The answer, which is my best suggestion for living the life you want is: delete four of them. That's not the punchline to a joke, it's an effective strategy for getting more of...
The Permission to Pivot: Why It Might Be Time for an Intentional Relocation
It's late January and I'm stuck inside my Madison, WI home for the third day straight with wind chills in the -20 to -40 degrees Fahrenheit range. My weather app says it's going to get slightly better next week, but the number of days I feel I can go outside and run...
Is Life Better Without Social Media? Here is What I Found.
This week, a friend of mine complained about how her social media feed made her want to curl up in a ball and cry, which caught me off-guard. You see, I've essentially been off all social media for about six months. When I challenged this friend to get off social...





