Your Mind Is Your Castle—Defend It Accordingly

Our mental time-energy is a vital resource for our ability to flourish in life that we should never squander.

To borrow a phrase from author Michael Crichton, we live in a state of fear. Everywhere we turn, news and social media are trying to give us reasons to be pessimistic and fearful.

It’s hard not to be infected by the deadly disease of pessimism. A quick scroll down my news feed is often enough to get me worrying about war advancing throughout Europe, the …