Quiet Quitting Won’t Make Your Life Better. Here’s What To Do Instead
If you’re disengaged at work, you may be cheering for “quiet quitters” who aim to focus more on other parts of life. But you still have this nig…
Category: Personal Development
Insights, tools and resources for personal development, including processes, frameworks, proven practices, and cutting-edge thought leadership.
New Years’ Resolution – Goals or Gales?
As you set goals, especially those tied to very “narrow” constraints, be careful that you don’t substitute one level of uncertainty and frustra…
Where Does This Piece Go?
We are all trying to “puzzle” our way through life. As you piece together your identity, consider the people, communities, and values that impact …
Have you Discovered the Swan Within?
You’ve likely heard the children’s story about the ugly duckling. What difference does a change in perspective make? Read on to find out how you c…
Let Your Light Shine
You're on a journey... not just to discover the light shining within you, but to let it out and let it shine. That moment when you discover who you re…
Discover the light within
You are capable of greatness. In fact, it is already within you. You just need to discover it, and then work to bring your life into alignment so that…
The key is to just start
The night I quit my job I had a decision to make: wait, or just start. I chose to just start and held a seminar the next day. People in motion tend to…
When moving forward means saying goodbye
The world needs the light and magic you have inside of you. Your journey itself—and the promise of what is to come—is more important than any posi…
When the journey ahead terrifies you
Being terrified doesn’t mean you’re weak, it means you’re human. And the most important steps we take in life are often going to be the most ter…
TEDx Talk: Reaching your personal escape velocity
We must make a fundamental change to how we view ourselves—not as the product of our past, but for the potential of our future. Watch Rusty Lindquis…
Put down your device and live
Put down your device and live a real life, not a virtual one. A poem written and performed by Gary Turk, called "Look Up."
Limitations: They do not define you
The hardest handicaps to overcome are mental. It happens when we tell ourselves the wrong story. Change the story.
Finding fulfillment: 4 truths of personal progress
These four truths about mastery and personal progress will help you find fulfillment, purpose, and direction in life, and will help you get past your …
Climb life’s mountains
Strength and perspective come when you climb life's mountains instead of avoiding them.
What you probably didn’t know about doing little things
Little things can give us a sense of accomplishment, which can be good in building momentum; but they can also help us justify putting off the big thi…
What is the greatest reason to change?
There are lots of noble reasons to seek change in life. According to Vince Lombardi, chiefest among them is love.
Sleep Deprivation: how you sabotage your own success
Sometimes we give too much credit to our failures, when what we really need is just a little more of this one key thing.
Find perspective in this surprisingly effective lens for life
FIND PERSPECTIVE IN THIS SURPRISINGLY EFFECTIVE LENS FOR LIFE articles Imagine you’ve been given a garden. It’s your garden, and you’re responsible for its care.…
Ted Williams: Don’t judge a book by its cover
The inspiring story of Ted Williams, and why you should never judge a person by your first impression of them.
The touching story behind Rudolf, the reindeer
In 1939, Montgomery Ward asked employee Bob May to write a Christmas story for them to give away at Christmastime. It ended up being one of the most w…