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  • Say no (when you mean it)

    So many people are terrified of simply expressing the fact that they do, in fact, not want something, and make incredible mental gymnastics to come up with reasons on why they would not be able to do something. It’s Friday evening, and you’ve had a hard week at work. Friends invite you out, but you’d…

  • Being boring – it’s good for you

    There are a number of things you can do for yourself as an adult that will make your life easier, better, healthier, make older you grateful for doing them, but are unfortunately boring, so you end up finding reasons to not do any of them. Everything else comes first, they end up de-prioritized, and when…

  • Bellini’s Norma and the leadership we need

    There is a general sense of frustration with leadership in the world right now – corporate, politics, you name it. You feel it, I feel it, we all feel it – the vast majority of high-ranking leaders don’t inspire confidence, are not held accountable, and just make most people feel like they can’t trust those…

  • What yoga and David Cronenberg have in common

    Or, how from a yoga class I went into Liberty Village’s history black hole One of the very first things I did after we moved was, obviously, find a local yoga studio that wasn’t half an hour away. There are many of them, walking distance, in Liberty Village, which is one of the reasons I…

  • We’re back (downtown)

    I was born and raised in the big city – I’m from Rio de Janeiro, the 45th most populous city in the world (that means 6.8M people not counting metro population), and I have also lived a couple of years in São Paulo, which often ranks in the top 10 (I can assure you that’s…