WELCOME TO 2018 Hard to believe, but 2018 is here! By the second week of January, it’s likely that most people have already decided on some New Year’s…
THE BLESSINGS OF A BUSY HOLIDAY SEASON How is your holiday season going? Let me tell you about how it’s going for my friend Andy, who celebrates Christmas. Andy is a young…
AVOID THE STRESS SNOWBALL The other day, my colleague looked groggy. He hadn’t slept all night. When I pressed him about what was on his mind, he told me…
WHAT’S YOUR PERSONAL NARRATIVE? Do you have a personal narrative? A story that you believe deeply about who you are and what you do? Like: “If you work hard,…
CULTIVATING HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS AT WORK I recently had the awesome opportunity to speak to a group of college students and alumni at The Study Center at UNC-Chapel Hill. I talked…
4 STORIES OF PERSONAL INNOVATION IN THE FACE OF CHANGE When life seems perfect, I often dream about how beautiful it would be if everything were like that all the time … and then, there’s…
A CHALLENGE TO CHOOSE LOVE One of the most basic universal human needs is to love and to be loved. Most of us know this to be true, but there’s…
FINDING YOUR WHITE FLAGS Visualize a white flag waving: What do you think of when you see it? Loss? Surrender? Or peace? White flags have been used for centuries…
ARE YOU A GIVER OR A TAKER? On the day after Thanksgiving, I went to see Fantastic Beasts, the prequel to the Harry Potter movies, produced and written by J.K. Rowling. If…
HOW TO GRIEVE WITH FRIENDS THIS HOLIDAY SEASON I love the change of seasons, especially fall when the fresh wind ushers out the summer heat and brings new crispness with it. I love…