Category: Life Lessons

Four Reasons To Stop Lying

Small lies feel like shortcuts, then pile up into stress, inner conflict and more lies. Four reasons the truth is the braver and lighter choice....

The Struggle You Do Not See

We see other people's success, never the grind behind it. Picturing the finish line is easy. Planning for the hard stretch in the middle is what gets you there....

The Easy Path And The Worthwhile One

Everything in life is hard before it becomes easy. Eighteen everyday choices where the easy road and the worthwhile road split apart....

Potato, Egg Or Coffee Bean?

Three pots of boiling water, three very different results. A short kitchen parable about how you respond when life turns up the heat....

Find The Passion You Already Have

Your purpose is often hiding in plain sight, in whatever you do with ease. Seven ways to discover it and build a life you love....

Lift Yourself Out Of A Low Season

After a job loss, a bereavement or a long grey stretch, it is worth making a deliberate effort to shake off the gloom. Four ways to start moving again....

Why We Are Not Shown The Whole Map

We often wish we could see how life will turn out. Knowing everything in advance would probably crush us, and not knowing is what makes us grow....

Let Your Future Pull You Forward

The picture you hold of tomorrow can lift you out of bed or pin you to it. Three ways to build a future that keeps pulling you forward....

Two Sisters And A Stalled Train

The same delay, the same carriage, two very different journeys. A short story about waiting for life to improve versus living it now....

The Monkey And The Wooden Apples

A contented monkey steals two perfect apples that turn out to be wood, and cannot bring himself to drop them. A short fable about the things we cling to....