Open Your Mind to Receive

Perhaps the greatest tragedy is not that life offers us too little. Perhaps the greatest tragedy is how much we never receive. I want to tell you about the moment I told a stranger to “Have a beautiful life.” That exchange was complete in a way that the original...

Moving Toward What Matters

The difference between an ordinary life and an extraordinary one is rarely talent. It is almost always courage. There is a moment that recurs throughout human life — not once, but repeatedly, across the decades of a lived existence — in which a person stands at a...

Why I Believe Joy Is Sacred

Joy is arguably the most powerful force on the planet. Prologue: The Time Joy Ambushed Me in a Grocery Store Let me set the scene: I’m in Costco, a place where dreams go to die (or at least get bulk-bought and then forgotten in the back of a pantry). I’m pushing a...