Chris Loper has been writing about self-improvement and helping busy adults with habit formation since 2017. He also writes an education blog for parents and students for Northwest Educational Services. Along with Greg Smith, Chris is the cocreator of Parenting for Academic Success, a series of transformative classes that create empowered parents, confident students, and harmonious families. His most recent endeavor combines his academic and habit-formation expertise to help students thrive in college. Visit SmartCollegeHabits.com to learn more. In 2021, Chris published a humorous memoir titled Wood Floats and Other Brilliant Observations, a book that blends crazy stories with practical life lessons. He lives in Issaquah, WA where he is the owner of South Cove Tutoring.
What’s your #1 asset? Is it your home? Is it your education? Is it time? What’s the most important resource you use in your work? What’s the most important thing you have to offer the world? What’s the one thing that you bring with you everywhere you go? What’s the one thing that, if you improved upon it, would improve your entire existence? What allows you to use all your… Read More »Your #1 Asset
Everyone knows willpower is important, and the clever among us work to simultaneously develop stronger willpower and strategically use less of it. But we should also consider the timing, location, and frequency of willpower battles. We should also choose our willpower battles wisely. Here are three strategies you can use to do just that. #1 Choose easier battles. Some willpower-using activities are relatively easy, while others are quite hard. Let’s… Read More »Choose Your Willpower Battles Wisely
Every year on July 4th, Americans come together to celebrate Independence Day, but I, for one, take issue with the name of this holiday and the ideal of independence in general. I should probably explain myself. It is true that the 13 colonies which would eventually become the United States declared their independence from Great Britain and then fought a war to free themselves from the colonial yoke. But I… Read More »Interdependence
Note: You can find the full loving-kindness meditation script at the bottom of this post. Of the many different types of meditation, I practice two: breathing meditation and loving-kindness meditation. The purpose of breathing meditation is to develop mindfulness, while the purpose of loving-kindness meditation is to develop compassion, kindness, and altruism. (You may also hear loving-kindness meditation referred to as “metta meditation” or “loving friendliness” meditation.)1 In loving-kindness meditation,… Read More »Loving-Kindness Meditation