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Running a business together and staying married: roles, money, decisions and leaving work at the door.

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Build a floor before you try to build a plan

A season you didn't choose doesn't respond to optimism. It responds to three small things you do whether you feel like it or not.

GuideLifeCal Brennan23 Sept 20265 min

Ten minutes a day with nothing in your ears

No podcast, no music, no phone. Just a chair and a timer. It's the cheapest upgrade to your head you'll find, and the first week is rough.

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Rewrite my CV so it actually gets read

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GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20265 min

Ikaria runs on a garden, a hill and a 25-minute nap

The Greek island famous for long lives never scheduled a workout. What it did instead translates surprisingly well to a job, a mortgage and three kids.

Dude.com — 16 advisers who listen, talk and pray with you

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Forgive the debt without handing back the keys

You can cancel what your sister owes you and still not leave the kids there overnight. Those are two different decisions, and only one of them is about the past.

Poll

How many days a week are you actually training?

GuideLifeCal Brennan23 Sept 20265 min

Grade the week on how you lived, not what you finished

A twenty-minute Sunday habit, six questions and a cheap notebook that'll tell you things your task list never does.

GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

What Okinawa actually did and what a working parent can copy

The famous longevity diet was mostly sweet potato and poverty. Four habits from it still transfer to a house with kids, a job and no spare hour.

Names.com — The name is the first thing you sell

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GuideBRO for HerNina Castellan23 Sept 20265 min

Envy is an input problem, and you control the inputs

Comparison isn't a character flaw you were born with. It's a feed you built, a wanting you never named, and a habit you can change in an afternoon.

Quiz

Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

Five questions, honestly answered, and a plan for the next fortnight.

GuideLifeCal Brennan23 Sept 20265 min

Take the job nobody wants and the purpose question goes quiet

Purpose isn't something you dig up by thinking harder. It's what's left over after you've shown up somewhere long enough for people to count on you.

GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Loma Linda doesn't train hard and outlives everybody anyway

A town 60 miles east of LA has some of the longest-living people in America, and not one of their habits looks like a training program.

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Give me something to do with my kids this weekend

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GuideBRO for HerNina Castellan23 Sept 20266 min

Say the hard sentence first, then stop talking

Most conversations you're dreading fall apart in the first ten seconds, and it's almost always because you buried the point under a warm-up.

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BRO TakeBe a ManMarcus Vale23 Sept 20266 min

Chase the next thing without resenting this one

Ambition with no finish line eats your house. Contentment with no project turns into a recliner. You need both, and they live in different rooms.

Poll

What was your first ever job?

GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

The longest-lived places got oversold and still got something right

Half the Blue Zones story doesn't survive a records audit. The half that does is free, boring, and fits around a job and three kids.

GuideBRO for HerNina Castellan23 Sept 20266 min

How to stop disappearing in your own clothes after forty

Low contrast and a soft shoulder line are what read as invisible, and neither one has anything to do with your body.

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GuideBe a ManMarcus Vale23 Sept 20265 min

Skip the comeback speech and write the plan instead

Resolve at midnight is cheap. What gets you back on your feet is one page, three dates and a phone call you don't want to make.</title> <dek>Resolve at midnight is cheap. What gets you back on your feet is one page, three dates and a phone call you don't want to make.

Quiz

Is your money actually in order?

Six questions. No email required, no sales pitch at the end.

Fitness5 min

Why the twenty-minute nap beats the hour you'd rather take

BRO for Her5 min

Buy for your widest measurement and pay the tailor the difference

Ask BRO

Plan a cook for eight people

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BRO TakeBe a ManMarcus Vale23 Sept 20265 min

Why humility reads like confidence and ego reads like fear

The man who can say "that's mine, I'll fix it" in eleven seconds has more authority than the one who never admits anything.

GermProof.com — An invisible germ barrier on your skin for hours

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What survives when you check the Blue Zones birth records

A demographer went looking for the paperwork behind the world's oldest people and found burned archives, pension fraud and bad math. Some of it still holds.

Poll

What was your first ever job?

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