
One thing I’m not dragging into the new year
I spent several minutes waffling back and forth. Pitch it? Keep it? Toss? Treasure? This was not the first time this had happened. But the fact I was wavering over a small bottle of eye cream magnified the ridiculous waste of time. So let me back up. I bought a bottle of fancy schmancy eye […]

Are you thinking of the wasted years?
The other day someone shared, I hate being a CPA, but that’s what my degree is in and I’ve worked in the field for 8 years already, so I really can’t make a change. Oh, the disheartening weight of that mindset. This type of thinking is a cognitive misstep that behavioral economists call “sunk-cost fallacy”. […]

On my nightstand: Think like a freak
In a good book the best is between the lines. –Swedish Proverb Here’s what I’m currently reading— The Love of My Life knows I enjoyed the other Freakonomics books and surprised me with their latest, Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain. My two favorite takeaways thus far: The […]