The Week After the Clocks Change
Dark evenings are a test. Build the routine before the mood dips.
Tag: mindset
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After the Storm Passes: Adjusting When Life Finally Gets Easier
When a hard season finally ends, many people expect relief and feel restless or uneasy instead. Here’s why that happens, and how to settle into calmer days without waiting for the next storm. Read more
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Going Back: How to Face a Reunion After a Hard Few Years
Reunion season can stir up dread when life hasn’t gone the way you planned. Here’s how to walk into a class or family reunion after a hard stretch with your head up and realistic expectations. Read more
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The End-of-History Illusion: Why You Will Change More Than You Expect
People of every age tend to believe they’ve mostly finished changing. Research suggests otherwise. Here’s what the end-of-history illusion means for graduates, career changers and anyone starting over. Read more
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The Peak-End Rule: Why the Way a Season Ends Shapes How You Remember It
Research on memory suggests we judge experiences largely by their most intense moment and how they end. As spring gives way to summer, here’s how to finish a season or a hard stretch well. Read more
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Perfectionism Is Not the Same as High Standards
Both involve caring about quality, but they run on different engines. High standards are about the work and pull you forward. Perfectionism is about the self and holds you in place. Read more
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A Realist’s Guide to Optimism
Naive optimism sets people up for a second fall. There is a sturdier kind, built on accurate assessment and a focus on what you can influence, and it may be the most useful mindset a comeback can have. Read more
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The Comeback Vocabulary: Words That Help and Words That Hurt
The words you use to describe your situation direct your attention, and attention directs action. The small words that quietly corrode a comeback, and the ones that leave the future open. Read more
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The Stories We Tell Ourselves: Self-Deception After a Setback
April opens with a day for fooling others; the rest of the year we mostly fool ourselves. The common fictions people build after a setback, and how to test whether your story is true. Read more
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Opening Day Mindset: Why Every Season Starts at Zero
On baseball’s Opening Day, last year’s champion and last year’s worst team walk out as equals. That blank scoreboard is a feeling anyone can borrow, especially after a hard year. Read more
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Myth vs. Fact: Confidence
People wait for confidence before acting, chase it with affirmations and assume others were born with it. Most common beliefs about confidence are backward. Here is what tends to be true. Read more
