To live well – to live within your means and to avoid the seduction of the material world. That is what I call prospering.

It’s a great idea to analyze how screen time has changed your life and how it alters your behavior. If you don’t like what you see, implement changes. Get comfortable again with real human connection and don’t give so much power to the screen and what is behind it. Real life is in the present moment, happening right now. We never know how many days we have in front of us. Let’s live them fully, not virtually.

This is not a race. The destination is not important. It is in the journey where all of the critical steps are taken. So enjoy this, my friend. Because life is meant to be celebrated. All of it.

You must drink plenty of water if you want to have good skin.

Rejoice in every aspect of life – big or small. Let nothing pass you by. Appreciate everything – whether it is perceived as good or bad. You have the power to turn any experience into a pleasurable one. Challenge your preconceptions and luxuriate in the simple things of life.

Eckhart Tolle, the new age philosopher, says, “What you do is secondary. How you do it is primary.

The truth of the matter is, these mundane tasks must be done. There is no getting around them. Almost everyone has to do a task on a daily basis that is less than fun. The key is to find pleasure in the task and to not wish you were doing something else while doing it.

The only way to get better is to practice.

To do two things at once is to do neither. – Publilius Syrus This is one of my favorite quotes on multitasking and it absolutely pertains to eating. Before I lived in Paris, it was not uncommon to see me eating a meal standing up, perhaps at my kitchen counter, with my cell phone lodged between my ear and my shoulder. Or worse yet, in front of the TV. By the time the meal was over, I wouldn’t have known I had eaten anything at all.

I started to notice it in French films as well. While the female characters in American films make a ridiculous number of Sex and the City–esque wardrobe changes, in French films, more often than not, you will see the female lead wear the same outfit at least twice during the course of the film. You would never encounter this in American films unless the filmmaker wants to make a point that the character is poor or depressed.