​I'm somewhat normal, nice, shy and a tad boring. I live with my wife and two daughters outside of Boston. I like taking walks, swimming in kettle ponds and listening to the Rolling Stones very loudly. I've always been interested in the mind-body relationship and how it pertains to our sense of self-fulfillment. 

For many years I looked for ways to improve myself by having a better understanding of how consciousness worked. I met with many different spiritual and self-improvement teachers, read a lot of books, and did so many different things to try to improve myself.

The conclusions I made were that I was basically wasting my time by putting so much hard mental effort into self-improvement. I realized there was nothing to improve on a deeper spiritual level – and that the constant effort to improve what couldn't be improved was usually what was stressing me out. 
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When I stopped trying to improve myself so much, and allowed myself to more consistently relax instead, I felt much better. This simple realization forms the basis of all the recommendations I share with people.