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Tag: tony robbins

  • Building Rituals: The Dilbert Guide to Managing Life

    Every day when I make a cup of tea in the microwave I think of my Aunt Klara. While staying at her house in New Hampshire years ago, I dropped a tea bag into a cup of water and put it in the microwave. “No!” she (very nearly) shrieked. “You have to microwave the water without the…

  • The Power of Saying No

      I have a kitchen calendar that’s pretty much the nerve center of our home. The kids scrawl all of their activities into the proper date boxes — yes, even the 5-year old, who painstakingly forms each letter as I slowly spell whatever word he needs to publish on the family agenda. Doctors’ appointments, meetings,…

  • The secret to doing anything. Any. Thing.

    It’s the Glorious Month of Gratitude, bitches. Today I have a good one for you. And it’s a secret. Lean in real close, will ya, and lemme whisper in your ear … Apparently I can do anything. For real. Go ahead. Dare me. Nah, screw that. I know at least half of you are sickos…

  • The Gift of Not-Enough

    November. The month of gratitude! It’s Day 2 for me — I’m supposed to tell you something I’m grateful for. But today sucked. Left, right and center, it was one big, fat suckhole of a day. It started off with a difficult conversation with my daughter, in which I said about every wrong thing I…

  • Suckfest

    It’s 9:21. My house is a disaster. Most of my laundry is undone. That that is done is in piles in the basement. Because, you know, it’s helpful for all of us to have to run down there every time we need a pair o’ tushie huggers. Exercise and all that, right? Anyway, I’m tired. I…