First, Let’s Not Make Things Worse: A Practical Guide to Staying Grounded in Tough Moments

Feeling overwhelmed or stressed? Author Jon Acuff’s advice—“First, let’s not make things worse”—offers a refreshing, practical approach for handling life’s challenges with humor, clarity, and emotional steadiness. Learn how this simple mindset shift, along with the grounding cue “Steady,” can help you respond with intention, anchor yourself in calm, and navigate both everyday frustrations and moments of uncertainty.

We Think We Want Action But What We’re Craving is Momentum

“When we’re stuck in inaction, we think what we most desire is to start taking action. But what we truly desire is to be in momentum.” This powerful insight formed the foundation of a recent game of MotiQuotomy, where ChatGPT and I took this quote and dissected it to uncover …

Ep. 75 | Falling In Love With Effort Again After Burnout

In this episode, we shed light on a very real but little talked about struggle of those suffering from burnout: the challenge of embracing effort again after burnout. For many, words like “effort” or “hard work” trigger resistance. But what if effort could energize you instead of draining you? When we …

Ep. 74 | Why We Quit

Welcome back to The End of the Day Podcast—a mindset podcast on a mission to help you think differently so you can start living differently. In this episode: Today’s Focus: What We Unpack: The Bottom Line: Questions to Help You Think Differently: Episodes that partner with this one: Quotes in this …