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Here is the embarrassing pattern I lived in for years: I’d match with someone I actually liked, we’d set a date, and the moment it was real, the nerves would start building. By the day of, I was a wreck. So I’d cancel. Usually about an hour before, with some...

I put off budgeting for two years. I want to be precise about that, because it’s easy to assume that avoiding something means you don’t care. I cared a lot. That was sort of the problem. Every time I worked up the nerve, I’d open some app or guide, and...

Buy a beautiful notebook. Open it Tuesday morning. Stare at the blank first page. Close it. That’s the way most journaling habits begin — and end. Not because writing about your life is hard, but because the page asks too much. “Write your thoughts.” Which thoughts? Where to start? By...