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2886 articlesCapping Downside Risk: A Growth Habit for Founders
Protecting the downside is the growth habit nobody brags about Capping the downside of an entire small business costs $30 to $60 a month. One uncapped lawsuit can erase five years …
What to Consider Before You Borrow Money for Short-Term Needs
Most of the time, unexpected expenses don’t arrive at a convenient time. A temporary gap between paychecks or an urgent purchase can all create pressure to find extra funds quickly…
What's your leadership language? | Rosita Najmi (re-release)
In a globe-trotting career that has spanned corporations, governments, nonprofits and philanthropy, Rosita Najmi has often found herself translating among them. Instead of focusing…
Once You See the Relationship Pattern, You Can’t Unsee It
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” ~Maya Angelou The weekend started like any other family visit. Our family was in town, and it began with real ex…
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Designing a Custom Engagement Ring
Entrepreneurs and high-achievers are uniquely wired. You spend your days optimizing systems, demanding high ROI, and building bespoke solutions to complex problems. Yet, when it co…
Do the Next Right Thing: Carl Jung on How to Live and the Origin of His Famous Tenet for Navigating Uncertainty
"There is no pit you cannot climb out of provided you make the right effort at the right place... do the next thing with diligence and devotion."
125 Positive Quotes About Life to Brighten Your Day
Life isn’t always easy. Some days just feel heavy, tired or uninspired. Or you’re overwhelmed and stressed out. And on some days life just keeps throwing unexpected and unwelcome c…
7 Essential “Notes to Self” We Should All Memorize Before Life Gets Any Harder
This morning, I was sitting on a neighborhood park bench eating a breakfast sandwich when an elderly couple pulled their car up under a nearby oak tree. They rolled down the window…
Mother Teresa
"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."
Dale Carnegie
"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."
Winston Churchill
"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."
Confucius
"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."
The Donkey and the Meaning of Life
"Come with me. I'll teach you the flowers and the stars."
How High Performers Navigate Unexpected Personal Crises
Discipline collapses in a single phone call. A calendar built with military precision, a morning routine dialed in for years — none of it survives the moment a doctor walks in with…
Love Anyway
You know that the price of life is death, that the price of love is loss, and still you watch the golden afternoon light fall on a face you love, knowing that the light will soon f…
Ursula K. Le Guin on the Meaning of Life
We are the survivors of immense and minute events — violent cosmic collisions and subtle genetic mutations, the deaths of innumerable suns and the births of innumerable cells, the …
40 Meaningful Questions to Calm the Mind and Bring You Daily Clarity
Asking the right questions is the answer. In a recent email newsletter I wrote, “Calm your mind today. Don’t think outside the box. Think like there is no box.” And to my surprise,…
Sunday Pick: The Office’s Rainn Wilson on meaning and happiness | ReThinking with Adam Grant
Rainn Wilson was a late bloomer: he landed the role of Dwight Schrute on The Office after over a decade of struggling as an actor. But success didn’t solve all of his problems -- a…
The One Hundred Milliseconds Between the World and You: Oliver Sacks on Perception
“If the doors of perception were cleansed,” William Blake wrote, “everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.” But we are finite creatures, in time and in space, and there i…
How to Live a Miraculous Life
Suppose we agree that we are here to love anyway — to love even though the work is almost unbearably difficult, even though we know that everything alive is dying, that everything …