Examining Life

To Do or To Be? Making Resolutions

It’s still August, but the weather has shifted and my American friends are getting ready for back-to-school season and the internet seems full of new

Where Do You Get Your Significance?

“And what I’ve realized is that I cling to stress because I fear I am not worthy unless I am busy. I maintain an overbooked

A Cure for Frustration: The List

Have you ever found yourself irritable, frustrated, or angry, but you aren’t sure why? You know something is bothering you, but you aren’t sure what?

What’s Your Bottom Line in Life?

I’ve written about how organising a closet, or any other space, can be overwhelming unless we establish our priorities. If we know our bottom line

Tendencies on a Continuum

If I didn’t know better, I might think that title had something to do with science and physics and maths! But I want to use

Abandon the Box

When my friend first moved to Italy, she was eager to learn the language and would dive right in to efforts at idiomatic expressions. As

Seven Ways to “Know Thyself” Better

We’ve talked about how important it is to “Know Thyself” – and why it can be so difficult. But there are ways we can know

Try it Out

(Learn to Discern, Principle #6) When working as a university professor, I had more than one conversation with a student that followed these lines: Me:

You Don’t Have to Become the Thing to Do the Thing

Recently I attended a fun workshop event run by Dave Evans of Designing Your Life. After speaking about the nature of human possibility and how

Priming Ourselves

My father is a perfectionist wall-painter. The walls of our home are “like glass.” I guarantee you that you have never, ever, experienced walls as