Why We Need to Fail More: The Suck Factor
Living your purpose requires a lot of sticking your neck out to try new things. This can be brutal if, like me, you weren't taught that mistakes lead to learning. Too many of us learned that mistakes mean we're bad or stupid. I saw this when I taught college students...
What Your Life Can Be
Read the following quote twice, so the truth of it can really sink in. (I've read it about 20 times so far, and I'll likely read it another 20.) Life is not what you see, but what you've projected. It's not what you've felt, but what you've decided. It's not what...
The Beauty in Heartbreak
Today, while taking my partner’s mother, Leri, for a walk in the hospital—she has advanced, stage 4 cancer—we found a wig store. We went inside. The manager, a survivor of breast cancer herself, didn't pay attention to Leri's impossibly thin body or her wrinkled...
I am Here. Here I am.
I am here. Here I am. That's what my therapist used to get me to say at the end of every session. Yes, I've been in therapy. Anyone serious about living their purpose should consider it, because we all have some baggage we'd be better off without. The real "good life"...