A quick note on the Enneagram. It’s my favorite personality assessment, especially as it relates to the idea that forms the heart of my business and mission. Understanding your God-given personality is one of the four big objectives in discovering your destiny. The other three objectives are: exploring your life story, grasping your skill set...Read More

What if I told you that the sadness you feel right now is never going to go away…as in ever? That, right there, is likely to cause some of you to hit delete. No way do you want to consider such a depressing future. I get it. But what if accepting that unvarnished truth is...Read More

One night, a few months ago, while bored-scrolling through the Netflix options, a documentary series called Lenox Hill caught my attention. It’s an intimate look into the lives of four doctors working at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. I wasn’t expecting much but by nine binge watched episodes later, we were blown away!...Read More

While I was processing the mask wars and writing about them here and here, I was drawn back to Edwin Friedman’s book, Failure of Nerve.  The big idea of the book is very provocative. The only way for a nation, company, family, church, etc. to survive in the midst of chronic anxiety (like today’s) is...Read More

“I will redeem the years that the locusts have taken!” That’s one of my favorite mysterious promises from the Old Testament of the Bible. It comes from the ancient prophet Joel, recorded in Joel 2:25. Locusts, when they swarm, are considered by many to be the world’s most devastating pests. Their swarms can reach densities...Read More

We’re not going back. I’m more and more convinced that life has fundamentally changed forever because of COVID-19 and its impact on our world. What does that even mean? On March 20 I received a link to an article that shook me up good. Looking back on it I can’t ever remember reading something so...Read More

It was, by far, the worst snowstorm I’ve ever had to endure. Early January of 1979, Chicago was hit with over 20 inches of snow, on top of 12 inches that had fallen just days earlier. My car disappeared under the massive drifts and the city did a terrible job trying to clear the streets....Read More

We all begin our adult lives climbing the first mountain. The summit, the goal, of this first mountain is the establishment of our identity. This is the premise behind David Brook’s book The Second Mountain. Good book. Good writer. It’s one of a number of books I recommend in what I call destiny literature. Back...Read More

Yesterday at Whole Foods a commotion broke out. Lots of yelling. Everything came to a halt as shoppers nervously watched it go down. A hush came over the place as the confrontation escalated. It was over masks. A woman had worn a mask to gain entry to the store, but once inside inexplicably removed it....Read More

What have you read lately that has inspired you? Let me tell you what lit my fire a few days ago. Shortly before his death in mid-July, John Lewis, the U.S Representative and civil-rights leader, wrote an essay that was published in the New York Times just days after his funeral. I had been deeply...Read More