Imagine you’re out for a stroll and cross paths with two individuals. One is lavishly dressed in designer apparel and the other in generic brands. Which of the two would most assume is wealthy? Most would point to the lavishly dressed individual. They would be wrong. “Wealth” is often wrongly associated with hyper-spenders. In the…

Where does your joy come from? And to be specific here, joy not happiness. The key difference between the two is the dependance on circumstance. Happiness depends on circumstance Joy does not. Photo by Erik Mclean on Unsplash.

I got caught in a 20 min LinkedIn spiral and after closing the tab started focusing on my next task. On previous days I would have been disappointed with how I had spent my time and it would impact my productivity for the rest of the day. Today I stopped myself and rejoiced that I…

A friend recently shared with me that their life goal was to become a great person. A key element of a great person is to love as many people as possible. I then asked what to love people looked like to her. She replied “Being seen.” Which deserved a follow up question of “What does…

Love means so much, yet it is often used to convey very little. I love that shirt. I love my child. Does love mean the same thing in those two contexts? I once wrote a speech about the over use of the word love. Arguing that we should reserve the word love for things we,…