Behavioral activation—science speak for getting started even if you don't feel like it—is one of the best ways to work through apathy and low energy. There is a strong inertia to thinking and feeling. Actions help to break it, so long as they are skillful.

The key to a strong identity is to diversify your sense of self. Called "self-complexity," it makes you less scared to fail and more enduring, robust, and resilient to change. Here's why and how to develop it:

Hey TTC Customer Service just wondering if you will refund me for the 3.30 I paid to take three different methods of transit to go 1km, to only get off and walk the remaining way.

Tell me how in a city this size it’s faster to walk 5km than take transit? And forget about cycling because motorists don’t care about you. What if someone has mobility issues?

Stop comparing yourself to other peoples’ perfect plans and perfect pictures and perfect workouts. Ninety-nine percent of that stuff is performative and fake. The road to genuine excellence and well-being is windy and messy and often boring. This is just how it goes. Embrace it.

A new meta-analysis on the impact of goal setting on performance found: 1. Process goals had a large effect on performance 2. Performance goals had a moderate effect 3. Outcome goals had a negligible effect

MOTIVATION comes and goes. Embrace it when it's there. SELF-DISCIPLINE allows you to show up and do the hard thing even when you aren't feeling motivated. SELF-COMPASSION makes it sustainable—because life is hard and the least you can do is be kind to yourself.

The only thing better than training is that feeling you get after you've trained, but you only get that after you've trained feeling after you’ve trained.

A lot of very smart people work in strange ways / with a lot of quirks (e.g. contemplating for hours and appearing to do nothing, while then suddenly having 100x output burst). This usually makes them not a great fit for traditional corporate world, where you often have to fake

On Tuesday I saw someone driving ON THE MGT along lakeshore by exhibition to pass all of the traffic!!

Decided not to study much for an exam, or skip out on practice before a big game? Under preparation is a coping strategy for stress. It allows you to protect your ego because you didn't 'try.' Actually putting forth effort, requires being okay confronting your limits.

Another day, another experience of TTC Customer Service taking my money to get me no where

I don’t really go for hot girl walks but I do go for gremlin walks where I leave the house looking like a train wreck and begrudgingly admit that the fresh air is helping me rediscover my will to live

These cars will now be forced to reverse backwards up the DVP. Dangerous situation unfolding. Why is the highway still open?

Toronto sits downhill from a LOT of impermeable pavement. With nowhere else to go, rain falling on parking lots across Toronto and the 905 flow downhill south, flooding the transit stations, basements, and streets across the City. We need to reduce paved surfaces. #onstorm

The Don, DVP and Bayview have become one.