Life Without Bacon.

It’s consoling to think that, beneath all these distractions, we’ll discover our shining, authentic selves, or even achieve a state of “mindfulness.” But I doubt it. I’m starting to suspect that the joy of ditching all of our stuff is just as illusory as the joy of acquiring it all was. Less may be more, but it’s still not enough.

Flavor is an illusion that you perceive in your brain from different stimuli.

If the average American were swap his current diet for the menu recommended by the USDA, the country would produce 12% more greenhouse gases than it does now.

What makes a female entrepreneur is a woman who is confident enough to be willing to take a risk in order to control her own career.

The truth is, what you do today matters. What you do every day matters. Don’t fall into the trap of thinking one brownie won’t hurt your weight-loss goal or a day without social media engagement won’t affect your site traffic. Successful people do the small things that seem to make no difference in the act of doing them. And they make the choice to keep doing them over and over and over. Because one brownie today, one ice cream cone tomorrow, and one chocolate bar on Friday all add up to significant deviation from your nutritional plan at the end of the week. If I could get you to make one change, it would be this vital shift in perspective: Your little choices add up to big results.