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This question landed in my inbox a few days ago, and it immediately stirred my soul. “Jordan, I found you and your writing when I searched ‘reasons not to kill myself’ and your article came up. First of all, thank you. I can tell that you have the kind of compassion that comes from having truly walked...

As anyone who has been following me for a while will know, almost every decision that I make is ultimately optimized for one of two things... 1. My mental clarity 2. My creative/sexual energy How I eat, sleep, relax, play, and live are all optimized for these two outcomes. My primary core values...

I have a confession to make... In many areas of my life, I am a ridiculously lazy person. The most pronounced part of my life where this shows up is in how I exercise. You see, I absolutely adore the benefits that I get from exercising (primarily: better quality sleep, creativity, resilience to getting...

I am not a doctor. I am not a researcher. I am not a happiness expert. I am a human being who has (at the time of posting this) lived for less than thirty years, and has accumulated thoughts about how life works. These are some of those thoughts. I hope that you get value from them. Here are seven...

Do you want to write for a living? Do you want to own your own business? Do you want to make more money, working fewer hours, while never having to go to an office, ever again? Well, guess what... not only is it totally doable, it’s never been more doable at any other point in the history of humanity. The...

Your sex drive is a good overall indicator of how healthy you are. If you are a male and you aren’t waking up with regular erections (especially if you're a male under 50 years old), then that can be an issue. The happier your body is the more sexual desire it will have. Remember... “Horny...

Western society lives by the culturally imposed rules of ‘The Cult Of One’. We are constantly bombarded with messages of “Go it alone”… “Be all that YOU can be”… “Never let ‘em see you sweat”… “When you laugh the world laughs with you, when you cry, you cry alone.” The underlying message being that...

I promise to see into your soul on a daily basis. I promise to ask you how your day was, and give you all of the presence of attention at my disposal. I promise to always take good care of myself, and to lean on others for support. I promise to come to you for support when I need it. I promise to...

We take life so seriously. We’re running from one milestone to the next… thinking that all we are is the sum total of our accomplishments. “Forget human being… I’m a human doing!”, cries the collective wounded unconscious. But we forgot something that our inner child still remembers... The point...

January 26th, 2017 is this website’s fourth birthday. Four whole years! If this website was a person it would be walking, talking, and beginning to form its own opinions about the world. It would also pee itself every now and then. I could take this analogy in a lot of different directions, so I’m going...