Living in our strengths and passions to make the world a better place is ultimately satisfying. Under this category, we talk about how to align our lives with our strengths, passions, values and life experience. In short, we talk about how to live our calling.
Think of your life as a sheet of notebook paper. On this sheet, there is the main part of the page, and there is the margin on the side. The page presents the main things in your life, and the margin hold the extra things in your life if there’s time, energy and funds left … Read more
One of my mentors, many years ago shared this awesome quote, “If you’re riding a dead horse, for God’s sake, dismount.” This statement is pretty funny because it seems so obvious and absurd. But in practice, it’s quite tricky. The reason it’s tricky is that pretty much nothing is ever fully dead. It’s just mostly … Read more
If you were to live full out to win the prize, to know that you finished well, what would that look like? For most of us, if we lived full out, our life would look pretty different. I love this quote: “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving … Read more
Before I was self-employed, I worked for various companies. There was this standard message that I was given at many of these places. Not long after I hired on, I was sat down and told something like, “You don’t matter. If you don’t produce the results we want, we’ll let you go and get someone … Read more
On this Fourth of July, I am reminded of our freedoms and our rights including the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Most of us are busily engaged in activities we believe will help us to achieve happiness. Yet happiness seems to elude us. It can be so fleeting! Are you pursuing … Read more
I’ve noticed that we all have an internal maze. This maze inside of us consists of all the rules that we follow to be liked, loved and accepted, and to feel like we’re good people. This maze is really complex, so complex in fact, that we often never find the “cheese” at the end. The … Read more
We often hold ideas about what makes an impact. We think things like, “if I become a teacher, then I’ll have an impact in kids’ lives.” But is it really an impact? We find that certain professions hold a greater potential for an impact. Yet this potential isn’t always realized. Just because you’re a teacher, therapist, … Read more
I go to church and hang out in Christian circles. That’s just a part of who I am, and every once in a while, I feel compelled to post here about God. I hear from a lot of people about how God works. “I do this, and then God is supposed to do that. That’s … Read more
We are all engaged in self-deception to some degree or another. This is because we have a deep need. Most of us are not even aware of it. This thing we deeply need is justification. We subconsciously work to justify ourselves and most of us don’t even know that it’s happening. The crux of this … Read more
Frequently when I ask people how are they doing I hear, “busy.” Everybody seems busy. Being busy seems like a good thing. But being busy is not much better than being idle. Instead, “busy” is a four letter word. When we answer that we are busy, we are talking about lots of activity … and by … Read more