Ideas are free, execution is priceless.

The most rewarding thing we can do is update our definition of humility. We accept that it’s not a strategy, program, goal, posture or technique. It’s not something we try to be. Nobody wakes up in the morning and just resolves to be humbler. We can’t slip on humility like a pair of wool socks. We can’t whip or will ourselves into a state of modesty like an ascetic…

There’s a difference between getting out of your comfort zone and jumping off a cliff. One is a useful exercise that involves healthy risk, stretches you in new directions and stimulates growth. The other is an exhausting, frustrating, wasteful effort that doesn’t play to your strengths. Drucker, in his bestselling book on managing yourself, wrote: it takes far more energy to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than to improve…

Nothing seems crazy when you’re used to it. Whether it’s an abusive relationship, a toxic workplace, a compulsive habit, or some other harmful circumstance, you never realize how bad it was until you walk away and heal from it all. It’s only when you get to the other side and find the happiness you didn’t know you could feel, that you see your past with straight eyes. But that’s…

Death isn’t a tragedy for the person who dies. What do they care? They’re already gone. It’s lights out. They’re not even around when people mourn them, so what’s all the fuss about? Seinfeld summarized it best: Dying is going to be fantastic, think of all things you’re done with. Seems to me, that the cruelest punishment is not the end of our own lives, but the death of…

Intimacy is the human catalyst for the experience of oneness. Multiple studies have shown that young people are having less sex than previous generations. The exact reasons for this trend are debatable, but one thing’s for sure. Sex isn’t the problem, it’s the symptom. What’s more concerning is our culture’s broader withdrawal from physical and emotional intimacy. And it’s hard not to appreciate the allure. Why waste our time…