If You Can't Take the Heat, Get Out of the Kitchen

"I look back at various stages of my life and am blown away by the amount of things I tolerated for years and years simply because I gave it no thought," he says. "It's amazing the power of a simple list that was created, two columns left side, all the things that bothered me that I wasn't happy with or that I knew should be there." The danger is when we adapt to and normalize the reality that falls short of what matters to us, writes Michael Wolraich.