A nice thing to do is help an elder with their groceries & chat them up while you do it. It makes their heart happy & the side effects are nice.

Let people in in traffic. It costs you nothing.

In preparation for hunting, fighting, or flight, the Cherokee taught their children to run with their mouths closed. Doing so keeps your heart and respiratory rate significantly lower. So while you may not run as fast, you can run substantially farther.

That’s metaphoric and practical.

Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil.

~ M. Aurelius

You know that frustrating political post you just saw on your feed? Take a personal win & ignore it.

As gender roles have changed so too must our definition of “provider”. Perhaps we’re no longer the financial keystone of our relationship. That’s ok. Being a provider also means creating a safe space for emotional, physical & spiritual growth for loved ones.

Be the guy that returns the shopping cart to its rightful place.

Knowledge comes from learning. Wisdom comes from living.

1. From my grandfather Verus, I learned good morals and the government of my temper.

Meditations
~Marcus Aurelius