10 lifestyle changes I plan on adopting this year to get back to my best physical and mental shape. — The last couple of weeks I have been knee-deep into 2023 planning. I followed my new 12-week approach and planned the first quarter of this year very carefully. Now that the dust has settled, I can see the big themes of this quarter (and the year overall) emerge. The biggest…

What to wear, what to eat, what to buy, what to learn, and what to throw away if you want to help the planet heal. — With every passing year, we are consuming more and more. Driven by a capitalist system, we solve all our problems by buying things. Even worse, nowadays, we create problems, only so that we can sell the solution to them and make money. The need for a “less is more” approach…

Make 2023 your best year so far with this new more action-focused and results-based approach. — When it comes to yearly planning for the next year, most probably we all share the same approach. It goes something like this: Reflect on the current year Find areas of improvement Figure out what to focus on Write your 2023 yearly goals based on that This approach has worked…

Most productivity systems boil down to these cheap but essential items that you can purchase to have your most productive year so far. — I have a very simple formula to decide if I had a productive day — look at my task manager and calculate the following metric: # of tasks completed / # of tasks scheduled Let’s say I had 8 tasks scheduled for a given day. I completed 6 tasks. That’s…

A collective approach to healing our planet, one small action at a time. — To start healing the planet, we don’t need a handful of people doing sustainability perfectly. Instead, we need a million people doing it imperfectly. Being at the extremes of the spectrum is never easy, and more importantly never sustainable. If you want to lead a lifestyle that’s easy on the…

10 ways I put my money where my mouth is, and you can too, to live a more intentional, meaningful, and sustainable life. — Every dollar you spend is a vote for something that you believe in. There’s a famous saying (and a song too apparently!): Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is. The idea is very simple. Whatever you preach, make sure your wallet sings the same tune. Whenever we are spending our…

It started as an experiment but ended up being a lifestyle change with tons of positive changes. — It’s been a little over one year since I don’t have Instagram on my iPhone. Prior to that, I always used to obsess over YouTube videos with titles such as “I Quit Social Media for 30 Days”, “Why You Should Delete Social Media”, “A Year Without Social Media”, etc. I…

Reimagine your relationship with the internet. — Dopamine is a neurotransmitter, produced in the brain, that is associated with pleasure, reward, and motivation. Why am I talking about Dopamine amongst all the hundreds of other neurotransmitters? That’s because dopamine is somehow related to most of the toxic behaviors in our lives that are dragging us down. How…

Use these 10 digital well-being tips to live your most intentional, meaningful, and impactful life in 2023. — You can make 2023 the year where you stop living a life filled with infinite scroll, passive consumption, and lost time. Smartphones are engineered to steal our attention every second of the day. The more eyeballs these multi-billion dollar companies can get on their apps, the more money they make…