Sometimes We Lose

If you can’t laugh at it, you lose. Under normal circumstances, I’m not a fan of ultimatums. But extremely profound quotes are not normal circumstances. If the statement holds, exceptions to the quote suggest a powerful lesson. For example, at a funeral for someone you love you wouldn’t laugh. And that’s because you can’t always…

The Underlying Thread: Purpose

Your life experience has a purpose. Your interests serve a purpose. Your delights serve a purpose. Your fears serve a purpose. Your dreams serve a purpose. Have you considered what that purpose might be? Photo by Natallia Nagorniak on Unsplash.

On Advice

The best advice often comes from people who don’t try to tell you the answer. Instead they give you a new approach to thinking about the question so that you can solve it. Which, by the way, often leads to a slightly better answer. This is displayed artfully in the international best seller “Man’s Search…

Quotes I’ve Been Pondering

Ego is about who’s right. Truth is about what’s right. – Tim Ferriss There is no them. If I accept you as you are, I make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming I help you become that – John Wolfgang Von Goethe Morality is…

The Next 5 Minutes

So often we are impatient at a macro level, and incredibly patient at a micro level. This attitude is glaringly visible through our relaxed posture towards the now, while our perspective towards the long term is filled with worry. What if you changed your posture? Patience towards the long term and impatience towards the now….