by Matt Dirks | Dec 14, 2016 | Blog, Uncategorized
My wife says I’ve become a Grinch. She’s right. Christmas just doesn’t fill me with excitement like it used to. Maybe it’s because Christmas feels like it’s become a women’s holiday. They plan parties and Secret Santa exchanges....
by Matt Dirks | Dec 7, 2016 | Blog, Uncategorized
In Part 1, we thought about two factors that have had a negative effect on our relationships: The rise of the self-esteem movement, and the rise of instant gratification. The self-esteem movement has made us think that people would always praise us just for being us....
by Matt Dirks | Nov 30, 2016 | Blog, Uncategorized
We have more tools to connect with people than we’ve ever had before, but 45 percent of us are lonely (an all-time high). We have more marriage books and relationship counselors than any time in history, but our divorce rate remains stubbornly stuck between 40...
by Matt Dirks | Nov 23, 2016 | Blog, Uncategorized
The holiday season can be a killer. Between nonstop work parties, stressful family dinners, endless school performances, Christmas card photos, and gift-giving pressures, the month between Thanksgiving and Christmas can reduce even the strongest people to whimpering....
by Matt Dirks | Nov 8, 2016 | Blog, Uncategorized
I’m in Southeast Asia this week, and every person I meet asks me (with an extremely worried face) about the election happening today in America. Every. Single. Person. No matter what happens today, at least half of us will think it’s the end of the world...
by Matt Dirks | Nov 2, 2016 | Blog, Uncategorized
I was talking to a college student a few years ago, and he was telling me about how he loved going to the new Starbucks in Aina Haina, because it had just opened and nobody knew about it yet. When he went there to study, he could always find an open table. Not like...
