Jacob Schnee

20 years into the practice, pausing to posit why exactly meditation is so refreshing for the mind, body and spirit.

Reason #71839 why local libraries are the friggin' best: live homework help. For free! All afternoon and night. Pure magic, I say.

Here's a fast and easy way to make the world better, which costs virtually nothing: Give more praise to the people in your life.

That thing you don't like about yourself or your spouse just needs a little love and understanding. (And fine, yes, it needs some work too.)

It's January. Time to say "yes" to new things, right? But what if instead, now were the perfect time to embrace the merciful beauty of "no"?

I started teaching myself piano. Why? Music connects where words can't.

Laying out my personal manifesto to help clarify life and things

Anyone who's seen the legendary film Glengarry Glen Ross recognizes it instantly as a symbol for the most hardcore of Type A,...

Do you want to improve life for others? If you didn't answer 'yes' then I applaud not only your honesty but your self-awareness. You may...

Like positivity and negativity, the word "decision" carries a very influential and telling backstory. There is more to it than meets the...

You hear about them all the time. Be positive. Think positive. I'm positive. Stay positive. Positive thinking is the key. There are...

You really have a big influence on who you become. When you begin to take more control of your life, you come to find you live in a...

It is what it is. Some of us grow up with Big Dreams for ourselves. Among those, some of us live those dreams to a tee. They know exactly...

It's simple mathematics when you get down to it. Join me for a quick thought experiment if you would: Say you do 1.5 days' worth of work...

Work is shifting rapidly. There's a "restructuring" afoot. Yes, that's right, the dreaded "R" word. Like quicksand, teams are losing...

Life doesn't give us a lot of breaks. (Of course, we can control lots of that by making our own luck. Did you know, incidently, that made...

It would be this: Give yourself some time in the morning. Some time to yourself. Some time where it's quiet. Or alternatively, time where...

This is partly why you have to do the work. To put it another way. If you really want to max out your potential, you have to figure it...

How often do you feel stressed? Some of us can find ourselves trapped in the stress loop. It can happen to the best among us. It happens...

It’s where prayer comes in for some people. It’s where mantras come in for others. It’s the basis of transcendental meditation. I could...