C.S. Lewis on living in light of our inevitable annihilation: ‘How are we to live in an atomic age?’ I am tempted to reply: ‘Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat at night; or indeed, as you are already living in an age of cancer, an age of syphilis, an age of paralysis, an age of air raids, an age of railway accidents, an age of motor accidents. In other words, do not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation.

Some people are surprised by this, but Dusty and I have been in therapy for as long as we’ve been a couple. We always say, “We like our relationship, we want it to be better, so we talk to a therapist!” We try to normalize going to therapy as a discipline of maintenance rather than recovery or rehabilitation. We maintain our marriage for the same reason we maintain our vehicles: we don’t want to wind up broken down on the side of the road.

The exercises in the Values, Vision, and Goals courses (and workbooks) are curated from books, speakers, personal experiences, and other goal-setting curricula I've encountered over the years. I'm a student of the practice of goal setting, and I believe in citing my sources. Though I wrote all the text and instructions in the workbook, I'm providing the sources of where I encountered many of the concepts in the Values, Vision, and Goals course here.

Introducing Foundations for Couples, a brand new course designed to guide couples through foundations in values, goal-setting, creating a mission statement, and learning tried and true conflict-resolution tools.

TEN YEARS AGO in 2011, one year out of college and uncertain of what I wanted to do with my life, I was all too familiar with the frustration that comes with lack of clarity. Then the assistant manager at my workplace taught me how to set goals for the first time, and everything changed.

Is your To Do list longer than a Thanksgiving dinner grocery shopping list? Or maybe you’re post-it note system has turned into a swarm and it’s haunting your dreams. Calm down. Grab a blank sheet of paper. The Eisenhower Matrix is coming to the rescue!

Have you ever wondered why you eat more junk food at the end of the day? Ever wondered why the life-hacking crowd recommends that you “front-load your day?” Ever noticed that when you leave “that one hard task” on your daily To Do List until the end of the day… it just doesn’t get done? It all has to do with willpower. Turns out willpower is a depleting asset. Read on for ways you can apply this principle to your goal-setting pursuits.