I scan the room of expectant faces. It may be a hundred faces. A few times, I look out at well over 500 faces. Once, there were over a thousand faces looking at me. 

Gratitude isn’t something you wait to feel. It’s something you practice—especially on the days you need it most.

Becoming someone new is uncomfortable by design. Growth does not mean you are failing. It means you are evolving.

Clarity is not a mood or a milestone. It is a discipline you return to when curiosity, generosity, and distraction all compete for your life.

Have you ever asked, “What about me?”

Are you running around, doing all the things, making sure everyone else has what everyone else wants and needs, and suddenly realize that you don’t have a single thing for yourself?

Making yourself a priority is so hard this time of year, but it’s not impossible. In fact, for your friends, family, and coworkers to be happy and joyful...

You must be happy and joyful.

Whoa, there are A LOT of things outside our control right now. We have mandated masks in most states, it’s uncertain whether schools will open, and who knows about sports, community events, weddings, vacations, etcetera?

This pandemic has disrupted every common situation in each of our lives, and it has given the spotlight to all kinds of other horrors.

It’s all just over-the-top and out-of-control.

When we can’t make our own decisions about certain things, it starts to feel like we can’t make decisions about anything.

“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.” Friedrich W. Nietzsche

Be careful you don’t become that which you are fighting against.

I think it’s fair to say that none of us has experienced anything like our current crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic. Never in a million years did we expect to be sheltering in place, or even quarantined in our homes for some people. We surely could not have predicted that many people would be out of work or working from home, that schools and colleges would be shut down, and that we’d suddenly be forced to spend SO MUCH TIME with our immediate family members—with no break.