The best wine comes from stressed grapes and vines grown in poor soil. A winery tour taught me about resilience, rocky starts, assessing, patience, and balance in life.
Stressed Grape Theory: How Struggle Creates Character and Depth in Us
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The Questions We Ask Ourselves Are Rarely Neutral: How Better Questions Create Better Possibilities
The questions you ask yourself shape everything you can see and do next. Here’s how to stop asking questions that keep you stuck and start asking ones that move you forward.
The Marshmallow Test Revisited: What the Famous Test Still Teaches Us About Life
Everyone knows we should probably wait for the second marshmallow. Almost nobody is practicing how. Here’s why delayed gratification is a muscle and and how to build it.
When Your Goals and Values Are In Conflict
Most people set goals without checking them against their values. When the two pull in opposite directions, everything feels harder than it should. Here’s why.
The Three Filing Cabinets of Life
Are you pulling from the red, blue or black filing cabinet? Discover how the three filing cabinets framework reveals what your stored memories are doing to your marriage and relationships.
How Deep Is Your Well? A Framework for Resilience, Relationships, and Conviction
My dad refused to do the minimum on something that mattered. Years later I realized he was not just talking about water. He was talking about everything.
Why Your Relationships Need a Word of the Year (WotY) Too
Most people choose a word of the year for themselves. Almost nobody chooses one for their relationships. Here’s why that is the most important word you will pick this year.
The Art of the Guiltless No and Underused Yes
Saying no isn’t about doing less. It’s about protecting space for the yeses that matter. Here’s how to use the guiltless no and underused yes with intention.
Grateful Recounting: How a Reverse Bucket List Reveals How Far You’ve Come
You track what you haven’t done. What about what you have? The reverse bucket list is grateful recounting at its most personal. And most powerful.
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