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Dreams in and of themselves are meaningful, but only to the extent that we know why we have them in the first. That’s the cleanest and truest fuel that drives us to move our story forward. Without it, we’re just postponing our happiness until some imagined moment in the future when everything is just right. Except that time never comes. Just when we get there, there disappears. Think about…

Churchill, the legendary politician and writer, once said that if you have enemies, good, because that mean you’ve stood up for something sometime in your life. Anderson, the great muckraking journalist, said that nothing produces such exhilaration, zest for daily life as a protracted, ugly, vendetta that rages for years and exhausts both sides, often bringing one to ruin. Plutarch, the famous essayist, said that the existence of enemies…

Having been both a member and a leader of various professional associations, masterminds and support groups over the years, there’s one source of tension that always seems to bubble up. The dissimilarity of member commitment. And it’s funny how it plays out. First, we get frustrated and even offended when other people’s priorities aren’t the same as ours. It feels like an affront to our value system. Second, questions…

My friend jokingly calls me the nametag priest, since my sticker is a sort of mini confessional that’s with me all the time. It’s the funniest thing. Not the fact that strangers will just start talking to me, but that they will just start sharing with me. People offer all these intimate, personal details about their lives that were never asked for. Like that one guy on the airport…

Since we can’t change people, the best thing we can do is change how we think about them, and how we think about ourselves in relation to them. Let’s say during a holiday or family trip, one of your relatives starts pushing your buttons. This shouldn’t surprise you, as they are the ones who installed them. But instead of picking another pointless fight or locking yourself in your room…

Age of candidacy is a fascinating concept. It’s the minimum age at which a person can legally qualify to hold certain elected government offices. Every country has their own electoral standards, each with a variance of age levels. France, for example, has a minimum age for president of eighteen years old. Italy requires presidents to be at least fifty years old. The overarching theme, however, is the same. Before…

Emerson had this idea that everyone should make their own bible. He said, select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet. As someone who has literally written my own bible, I can attest to this exercise’s profound spiritual implications. It was almost like starting my own religion, but without all the goofy hats. But…

When first introducing a new habit into your routine, a whole host of difficult feelings arise. Soreness, frustration, exhaustion, disgust, guilt, to name a few. But if you push through your initial discomfort, could be weeks, could be months, eventually, the pendulum swings. You reach the point where you not only feel better when you perform that habit, but you feel worse when you don’t. Your brain and body…

What’s the right path? How do we avoid picking the wrong one? And if we do, can we switch along the way? We need to stop asking these kinds of questions. Because there’s no such thing is the right path. In the micro, the right decision is the one we make, and in the macro, the right path is the one we take. Besides, which path we take is…

My friend is a professional trivia writer and host. Partly because he’s a lover of knowledge, patterns and history, but also because he loves bringing people together to make memories. In fact, the way he builds programs is by reverse engineering fun. Eli starts from the memorable user experience that he wants to create, and works his backwards from there. What types of answers would create strong emotional responses?What…