Starting something new is exciting. Whether it’s a new goal, a business idea, a fitness plan, or a personal project, it often starts with motivation, optimism, and the belief that this time will be different. You can clearly visualize outcomes…
Some people just make life better. You leave them feeling lighter than when you arrived, but you can’t always figure out why. They may be funny, charming, or talkative, but that’s usually not the point. What really works is what’s…
When adults are asked what they remember most about childhood, they rarely mention the big things: expensive vacations, birthdays in a rented bouncy castle. Instead, what appears on the surface is something small and repetitive, ordinary enough that no one…
In some people, without much fanfare, a shift occurs where they no longer view life as a game that they are losing. Their sense of rush is gone. You can see it in how they move, how they talk, how…
You can learn a lot about a person in the first few minutes, but rarely from anything they say. It’s those little courtesies that are largely outdated that still mark a person as someone who has been considerate of others…
For them, loneliness does not mean that something is missing. This is the return of something. They returned home, closed the door, and felt something finally loosen from their chests. The version of themselves that exists when no one is…
Some things about growing up in slower times aren’t better or worse. They just slow down, and there’s a quality to that slowness that’s hard to describe to someone who hasn’t experienced it. There are more gaps in the days.…
Many people walk around feeling like they are faking confidence, convinced that real confidence belongs to someone else, to someone louder and more confident. But faith rarely works the way we expect it to. This is not the man who…
I’m running my next course Launched in 1948 Now. Registration closes tomorrow, June 30th. This is something I haven’t said in a while. Because for the past two years, I’ve told myself I’m done with groups. I don’t do these…
Aging should be a relaxing process, a sense of stability that allows one to finally relax one’s mind. For some, it comes. For others it is not, and the difference is usually not luck. Those who feel secure have given…
