Guidebook for a good life - Practical, focused ideas for achieving and maintaining a life that works

By: Tom Cloyd (Reviewed: 2025-02-23:2308 Pacific Time (USA))

Some ideas are too useful or too important to keep to oneself, so here’s where we’ll put them. We can all use some good advice, and if you’ve had a stressful, injurious, deprived, or otherwise less-than-optimal childhood (and this can happen even with healthy parents¹), or experienced impactful misfortune at any point later in life, this website section is for you.

We make no pretense to completeness here. This is more a bulletin board than a fully-drawn map. It is a section of the website that is being slowly developed. Over time, we hope to offer here a selection of useful ideas for how to create and keep “a good life”. And we invite you to participate in this work - see **How to participate** for more on this.

Getting happy: A basic strategy - Evidence-based tactics for individuals
Gratitude - getting started on a gratitude practice - Recognizing what you can be grateful for will powerfully improve your state of mind and mood
A simple body-weight workout- Easy to start, easy to stick with
Back pain - Overview and recommended exercise interventions

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Good parents = good kids? If only it were that simple! In reality, there can easily be a mismatch, in a number of ways and with a number of unwanted outcomes. The vulnerable party in this situation is almost always the child. Here is a good resource starting point for considering this general problem: 10 Things to Know About Parent-Child Relationships: The parent-child relationship is different from all others. ^

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