Do you know what your life is worth to you? Can you measure it in money, happiness, or quality of time? A few weeks ago, I spoke to a woman who’d been unemployed for more than three years. She told me that most of that time she spent worrying, applying...
Do you have quirks you wish you didn’t, weaknesses that are in your way of becoming your best self? Do you have an urge to take things apart, climb the biggest obstacles, interfere, or make inappropriate jokes? Have you been called a troublemaker, a loud-mouth,...
I am back at school, which is awesome. I am having a blast devouring lectures, taking notes, assembling binders, and filling my brain with lots of exciting new information. The workload is huge, which pressured and overwhelmed me at first. But then I went “Heck...
Has anyone ever told you that if you are not getting what you want, you don’t want it bad enough? Did you find it encouraging? I didn’t. Years ago, when living in Manhattan as a single mom with three kids, I woke up one morning and realized that I...
As I was hiking one of my favorite trails yesterday, I started to think about life dreams – you know, not the small dreams we have every day, like wanting that bright red purse we saw at Saks Fifths Avenue last week – but the big dreams that make our...
19 Years Ago I Did Something Brave. I packed up my Berlin apartment, sold my furniture, bought three suitcases, three airline tickets – and, on New Year’s Eve, I boarded a plane to Hawaii with my two little children. I was following my dream. It was...
