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How are you?

There’s abundant uncertainty¹ in the world. What’s your relationship with not knowing what’s next? Have you considered surrender?

Surrender isn’t giving up or giving in. Surrender is letting go of what was not yours in the first place.

Letting go, far...

The exquisite opportunity available to us in the second half of life is less about reinvention and more of an invitation to become who we were always meant to be.

The first half of life is about accomplishment as measured by school and society.

Living from the outside in.

The second half of life...

Making progress in your pursuit of better living while you make a bigger difference in the second half of life requires making decisions and taking action.

Of course, it helps to make deliberate decisions (ones that are weighed and considered) and to take action with intention and integrity.

It...

What are decisions for?

Reasoning from first principles,¹ it might be a good idea to start with what a decision is.

“Decision” comes from the Latin decidere,² the roots of de (off) and caedere (kill).

To decide is, therefore, to kill off.

Kill off what?

Well, for one thing,...

Life is inherently fraught. 

A life worth living begins with doing work worth doing—the work you were meant to do. 

The only thing worse than trying and failing at the game of life is trying and failing at someone else’s game.

And anything worth doing should be done full out...

 Why does the pursuit of happiness create so much misery?

Because happiness isn’t a place. It can’t be pursued.

Pursuing happiness is fruitless and can only result in frustration and emptiness.

So, does happiness matter?

Of course, we need to understand what it is (and what it...

Why is your purpose (AKA “the difference only you can make”) so elusive? 

Where do you find your life’s next vocation?

“Look to your dharma.”—The Bhagavad Gita

Dharma is an ancient Sanskrit word that defies easy translation.

It is often translated as...

This guide is designed to help you define the difference only you can make so you can craft it into a meaningful endeavor done with and for people you care about so you can live your legacy.¹

However, while you pursue what you want on your terms without compromising on the content of your...

The most important conversation you ever have is the one you have with yourself on your deathbed.

That moment is a reckoning—when you answer, “What meaning did my life have?”

After all, your life’s meaning is derived from what you did while it was yours to do something...

Are you navigating the second half of life with a nagging sense that you’ve not yet fully embraced or engaged with your unique gift or life’s true calling?

For many of us, the second half of life is a time for reflecting on the meaning of life.¹

More to the point, it is a time to...

Are you winning the game of life based on the rules you learned in school and on the job but not feeling the thrill of victory?

You’re not alone.

Many people feel cheated in midlife despite following society's rules (although you can recognize the false promises of the “pursuit of...

Life is full of exits. You enter life exiting the womb and exit it entering the tomb. 

And that journey from womb to tomb is riddled with additional exits like graduating from school, retiring from personal and professional roles, and ending relationships.

Exits Are Also Entryways

Even when...