I was having lunch with a good friend the other day and he was telling me about a trip he recently took. We hadn't seen each other in a couple of months, so we were enjoying the opportunity to catch up and soon slipped into the familiar rhythm of well-acquainted banter. During the majority of the
Be authentic. There is no time for shallow pretense and self-obsessed insecurity if we’re ever going to get anywhere. This is about integrity: courage, truth and honor in all their many forms. It is said that our true value lies in being ourselves. I can’t think of a better way to put it. Make your self known.
It isn’t always some Rocky Balboa 3rd round knockout punch, your chest swelling in victorious pride as you’re hoisted on the shoulders of your loved ones, raising your fists in the air to the frenzied cheers of the uproarious crowd. Sometimes it’s more like throwing your arm over the top and weakly dragging yourself past
The search for calling, for purpose, is an inside out effort by its very nature. The sensation of something missing, the craving and obsession to go out into the world in search of our fate and destiny, is possibly the most misinterpreted impulse we possess. Why must we strike out on our own into the
As a doer, a problem-solver by nature with an inquisitive mind and a compulsion to be in near-constant action, I’ve spent much of my life reacting to my feelings as though they were problems that needed to be solved; imperfections that must be altered in some way or disposed of as quickly as possible. Any
