The interview was going great. Dorothy was sure they were going to offer her the job. That was the problem. It was the day her "Who Are You Now?" workshop ...
The Energy You’ve Been Searching for Is Already Inside You
A reflection on what becomes possible in your second act when you stop pushing and start listening — by Master Mingtong Gu There is a particular kind of exhaustion that ...
From Banker to Hippie Death Doula: Patrick McCleary’s Midlife Evolution
When Patrick McCleary left his 30-year career in finance in early 2024, he was running on empty. “I like to call it an ‘amicable divorce’,” he says, “But I was ...
“So, what do you do?” The question that rerouted my life and career
It was Memorial Day 2023, and I found myself at a neighborhood barbecue sitting beside a guy who asked me the proverbial “What do you do?” question. At the time, ...
The Rich Social Fabric of a Silent Retreat
Silent retreats often create deeper social connection than retreats filled with conversation. It sounds counterintuitive, but again and again, the connection that forms in silence is quieter, subtler—and often more ...
Reinventing Midlife: Embracing Your Shadow to Find Your True Self
Midlife can be a time of profound transformation—a moment when the persona we’ve carried for decades feels heavy, exhausted, and no longer authentic. After achieving tremendous success, I found myself ...
Anti-Aging Points You Backward. Life Design Points You Forward
You’ve heard these data points before: we’ve added more than 30 years to life expectancy in little over a century. The prevailing narrative alongside this demographic gift is that you ...
A Story for a World That Honors All of Life
They gathered in a circle and asked a question that mattered: How do we play together to awaken a world that honors all of life? They closed their eyes and ...
Our Story of Happiness
I have long reminded struggling students in my college writing course how much of human happiness is affected by where our minds dwell. For those of us well beyond college ...
Spark Team Creativity by Embracing Uncertainty
Focusing on getting the creative process just right can hamper your team’s innovation. As an artist who also works for a business school, I often talk with managers about how ...
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