Planning ahead, whether to the next week or the new year, always has me asking a familiar question: what do you want? That's a question that propels me into the future, a place where it's easy to live, where there's endless potential and where anything is possible but nothing really happens, that place where we can pretend […]
Unless you know what you want, you can't get it. Want is the only prerequisite for getting what you want. This may not feel true if you've ever gotten something without really wanting it, but here's the thing: you got it because somebody else wanted it for you. What do you want so badly that […]
In the profession called life, you can either choose to be led or you can choose to lead. Are you leading your self, or is your self being led by someone else? If you're being led, you risk your life being swept down a path that leads to someone else's definition of success. You risk […]
When you're feeling lost, reach out. You may find the missing pieces in those you're linked to, in those you've shared a bit of your life with, like a vibration echoing back to you through time but changed by the people it passed through on its way back to you. When it returns, it may […]
In a strong storm, even the trees eventually give up and come crashing down. But if they were more nimble—if they could uproot themselves and lay down or if they could flex like a blade of grass—they'd live forever. When your patience is tested and you feel ready to break, stubbornly challenging your adversary is […]
15 minutes = 1% of your day. What could you do for 15 minutes every single day for the next year that would have an immense impact on your life? One percent. Can you dedicate one percent to that activity? How about two percent? Three? Four? 30 minutes = 2% of your day.45 minutes = […]
But it has a friend who awaits more quietly: choice. In each moment you can choose an excuse—they're readily available, cheap, and eager to be used. Excuses don't care. They'll let you sacrifice the potential of today for the regrets of tomorrow. Or you can choose the work that you know needs to be done […]
In 1981, David Bradley was a computer programmer helping build some of the first personal computers. It was a slow and tedious process, often producing a glitch every few minutes that required a full reboot of the entire system. A full reboot meant wiping the computer memory and running a full set of memory tests, […]
When you die, the rest of the world won't go on merrily without you. It can't. It's too late. You existed and therefore it's going to go on changed in some way because of your presence, because you existed. Who are you to have an opinion? Who are you to make yourself heard? Who are […]
"Courage is not the absence of fear but the awareness that something else is more important." — Viktor Frankl