Recently, I read about how a pair of Mahatma Gandhi’s glasses were sold at auction for $340,000.  While I don’t have an opinion as to whether or not that’s the correct price for his actual glasses, I wondered what the value of his perspective would...

Conventional wisdom tells us we should never meet our heroes, because the only thing that’ll come from it is disappointment.   But I disagree.  I think we should meet our heroes because we’ll be disappointed, and that’s a good thing.   We all...

Are you living how you want?  Is your life the life that you want?  That’s a giant and potentially terrifying question and maybe the most important question you can ask yourself.   In order to live how you want, you need to ask yourself how you...

Complete disorder and confusion.  Behavior so unpredictable as to appear random.  The formless matter supposed to have existed before the creation of the universe.  2020. These are all definitions of chaos.  If we weren’t feeling swamped and a bit...

One my favorite words, arete, has no true English equivalent. It’s a Greek word whose meaning is close to “virtue” and whose definition is “what I can be, I must be.”  It speaks to a desire to realize our potential, to become the best possible version of...

Protection.   We need to start by thinking about keeping ourselves, our loved ones and those in our communities safe. Social distancing and staying at home are things we’re doing to flatten the curve, or more simply put, work to ensure we don’t all get...

Are you a creature of habit?  Someone who has routines? Someone who embraces structure and process?  Or are you not a systems person? Do you trust your gut? Do you act on feel and impulse?   While few things are truly binary, I like the...

What do you think about when you’re in the shower?  Recently, I recognized that all too often, my thoughts were about negative past experiences or times when I felt I’d been wronged.   This recognition, combined with my brother going through some...