Seeing Things Clearly

Life is full of transitions that connect the significant memories in our lives.

You can think of transitions like doors and the memories as the rooms on each side of the doors. There is a near-infinite amount of rooms but we tend to dwell on the same few, which makes this exercise… Read more...

The Happiness Mascot

Happiness is the ultimate goal almost all the time. We work toward Happiness in our career, in our love life, in our family life. We clean up, build things, fix stuff, take on challenges, seek hobbies, go on vacation all for that feeling of Happiness. Ironically, it’s a lot … Read more...

Our Best Option

I love you…

Perhaps the most powerful words in the universe. Words so powerful they bring people to tears, drop the strongest of us to our knees, open minds, and end wars.

Words so powerful they’re often too hard to say and so instead are uttered through small, beautifu… Read more...

The Gardener & The Passerby

Know this.

You’re not the only one struggling to find Happiness in your days, and getting mad at yourself because you can’t make it happen. You’re not the only one who wants to get out of your brain every once in a while, who feels trapped in a marathon of though… Read more...

The ‘Free Time’ Freakout

This weird phenomenon happens when I have free time. I freak out.

As a dad-entrepreneur-husband-counselor-activist-writer I’m constantly searching for that elusive free time. I wrote a frickin’ book on making more time in the day (though it was hard to find time to writ… Read more...

What Do You Get For Being Good?

What do you get from being good?

If this were an easy question to answer, I suppose there would be more good in the world.

When you work out, you get muscle.
When you eat, you get energy.
When you do art, you get what you created.

Being good, doesn’t directly correlate with anyt… Read more...

Real Talk Day

I’m proposing a new holiday – Real Talk Day – where no one works and everyone talks about what’s important to them.

And you can’t just cop out and say “family.” You have to go deeper than that. And if you’re not answering the questio… Read more...

Common Ground Giving Way

The idea of objective facts is slipping away.

We all used to work from the same set of finite encyclopedias, the very same elementary school principles. Good or bad, they were the same.

Now, there are so many sources, so many talking heads and talking articles coming at us through … Read more...

Doing Good In The World

I think we all want to make the world a better place – through our job, through our personal pursuits, but it’s easy to get wrapped up in the responsibilities of day to day living, to get tired, and to be overwhelmed. Where do I start? How can I make a difference?

Well… Read more...

The Resume’s Soul

A common bit of resume advice you’ll hear is that you need to sell yourself, that your focus should be, first and foremost, on the employer. You’re supposed to think about their needs, what they want to see in a candidate, who you should be. And then be that.

This sa… Read more...