It’s hard to define success. It means something different to each of us: for some, it might be money; for others, power; for still others, fame or status. It might mean love, or well-adjusted children, or a day-to-day joy that life’s trials can’t overcome. If you’re religious, it might mean salvation, or bringing others to […]
Dr. Kelly Flanagan’s post yesterday resonated with me. We’re already who we want to be, he says. We just have to find us within ourselves. He’s right, as he usually is, and he says it better than I can, as he usually does. So I won’t try to recap his work. Click the link above […]
We all have plenty of crap in our lives. Maybe we’ve been fired from our job, or we don’t like our job, or we don’t like our boss. Maybe a friend has died, or a family member, or a pet. Maybe our marriage is in trouble. Maybe our marriage has failed, or we can’t find […]
It’s a new year. Time to cast off our old selves and become something new. Almost all of us try to do just that this time of year, to cast aside the parts we don’t like and become who we dream we could be. We promise ourselves–we resolve–really to do it this year, to make […]
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all–in which case, you fail by default. J. K. Rowling, from here and here This comes from Rowling’s commencement address at Harvard University in 2008. She doesn’t specifically mention courage, but it’s […]