Doing What Works

Does your life fit you? Or does it feel more like an itchy sweater you can’t wait to swap out for something more comfortable? If there’s a better topic to explore, the way we do in this edition of Doing What Works, we hope you’ll let us know.

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Are you a finisher or an opener?

Your chances for happiness are increased if you wind up doing something that is a reflection of what you loved most when you were somewhere between nine and eleven years old.

No one ever gets talker’s block.

Are you watching a different movie on the same screen?

Career coach Barbara Sher was the author of Wishcraft.

Big Magic author Elizabeth Gilbert didn’t expect her writing to pay the bills.

The fastest way to attract what’s meant for you is to express yourself so honestly that everything misaligned falls away on its own.

To hear Katie tell it, Maureen is a great role model for aging well. If you want what she’s having, you’ll probably love this edition of Doing What Works.

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The Three Boxes of Life talks about the deferred life plan.

Want to change your happiness setpoint? The Big Leap might help.

Addiction is giving up everything for one thing, Elizabeth Gilbert has heard, while recovery is giving up one thing for everything.

A career planning retreat inspired a change in the way Maureen approached life.

The bad stuff is easier to believe. Guard against that!

Want to bring nature indoors and experience the thrill of caring for a living thing? This edition of Doing What Works will cheer you on.

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Dr. Nick Morgan would call Katie an infovore.

The prince’s planet was small but it had enough gravity to give him a place to stand.

“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”

This edition of Doing What Works illustrates the old saying: “If everyone put his problems on the table, you’d probably take yours back.” It’s been quite a winter for a couple of (vintage!) RV dwellers, put it that way.

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You can’t always get what you want.

The Big Leap will help you overcome a universal human tendency to sabotage yourself if things start going “too” well.

Imagine a decades-long relationship you can look back on with zero regrets. Katie and Maureen share the recipe in this edition of Doing What Works.

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Ski Cooper!

The things that go wrong often make the best memories.

What makes you a good mom?

The best kind of laughter is laughter born of a shared memory.

Are you into competitive storytelling? Storyworthy’s Matthew Dicks is!

Would you rather work independently or as part of a team? This edition of Doing What Works is a study in why that matters.

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The Tyranny of E-mail.

Job hunting usually means being rejected before accepted.

“Not a good fit” is a perfect reframe for rejection.

Much of life is deeply repetitive. This edition of Doing What Works is a recipe for transcendence.

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Bobby Darin’s “Change.” A piano medley from Rocky. Gordon Lightfoot’s “If You Could Read My Mind.”

Dogs might need the sniffing more than the walking.

Humans aren’t machines; the goal isn’t to minimize downtime.

Pattern interrupt!

The human heart demands an adventure.

Someone you love dies. A relationship you love ends. One version of you disappears before a new one reveals itself. This edition of Doing What Works will help you cope.

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“It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears.”

Reverse engineering your life to avoid regret is the personal version of a premortem.

I wish I might go back and do the little things you asked me to.

When you pick a lost cause, you really commit.

The best present to give your high school senior!

Maureen’s career looks more like the route a school bus takes than an expressway to anywhere. But she’s still having fun, learning a lot, and relishing the chance to share it in this edition of Doing What Works.

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Sheryl Sandberg suggests you look at your career as a jungle gym, not a ladder.

Marshall Goldsmith suggests you thank people for their feedback and decide later what to do with that.

Dick Bolles said you’re meant to enjoy your work.

Stories from the office, chores set to music, a love language of spreadsheets. This edition of Doing What Works is an ode to what Maureen cherishes about her childhood.

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