Plan Your Retirement As A Fresh Start
The standard retirement plan rarely fits people who have spent decades building something. Try five small steps and treat it as a new beginning....
Failure Is How You Feel About Results
Your twenties reward experiments. The trick is learning to tell what happened from how you feel about it....
Inspiration Is Fetched, Not Struck
We talk about inspiration as weather, something that arrives or fails to. Look at where it actually comes from and every source on the list is one you can go to deliberately....
Earth, Fire, Water, Wind: Four Ways To Meet Trouble
A training metaphor from the shadow warriors of old Japan, built on four elements. Four different postures for difficulty, and the skill is knowing which one the day calls for....
Not Everything Improves By Being Shared
An age that rewards saying everything out loud has made a few ordinary kinds of silence look like secrecy. Six of them, and what each one is actually protecting....
The Question You Did Not Ask
Somewhere between school and college students stop putting their hands up, and the cost never shows anywhere, because a question that was never asked leaves no trace at all....
A Reason And An Excuse Sound Identical
The supplier really was late. The schools really were shut. Every item on the list is true, which is exactly why the list is so difficult to argue with....
Judges For Other People, Lawyers For Ourselves
A short list of things most people privately know and rarely say out loud, starting with the courtroom we run two different ways....
Lessons Worth Rediscovering
Six lessons from children's books. They were never really written for children, and they hold up at any age....
Find Your Positives
A mother, a tired evening, and a child's homework assignment that turned the whole list upside down....