I’d like to float the idea that self-worth is a fundamentally different thing from self-esteem or confidence. People talk about these ideas as if they were each one and the same. But […]
Authenticity
Solitude, Crossing Paths, and Adaptability
Angela created this lovely audio meditation during a recent walk, which you can listen to here: (Listening time at 1x speed: ~13 minutes) Alternatively, the text of the audio is reprinted below, […]
Core Conversations on Start Finishing: The Practical Magic of Rewriting Our Stories
Editor’s Note: This is a continuation of our core conversations on Charlie’s book Start Finishing. In our last conversation, Shahrzad Arasteh talked about reaching your “what’s next.” In today’s conversation, Kerra Bolton talks about […]
5 Ways to Have that Trust Conversation Sooner
Conversations on trust are difficult because they have moral and practical connotations. We sometimes mean trust in the practical way: I trust my car to start, the sun to rise, or my […]
4 Great Ways to Stay Present in the Digital Age
Editor’s note: This post stems from a podcast episode of the same topic. Check out the episode “Is Technology Affecting Your Relationships?“. In recent years, communication technology has drastically changed expectations for […]
What Finishing My Book Taught Me About My Demotivation to Blog
Finishing my book has taught me a lot about writing and blogging. The most important lesson is that I love writing and that my days are best when I’ve done some deep […]
4 Ways to Cultivate Mutual Empathy
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Patricia Bravo. A few weeks ago, I rode a bus to the airport as I headed home from a client workshop. Unexpectedly, we were […]
What’s Been Going on Behind the Scenes at PF
Over the last year, we’ve shipped more courses, products, and programs than we had in the previous five years, and there’s been a flood of both new and old posts being published […]
Good Self Care Is the Foundation for Flourishing
Several years ago I was in a place where it felt like it was all I could do to get through the day. You know those days when what sounds best to […]
7 Ways to Plant the Seed of Your Story
People often struggle with telling their story because they think they need to fabricate some impressive narrative about themselves out of thin air. Doing so doesn’t feel authentic, and, let’s face it, […]
Blog Commenting Isn’t Dead — It’s Different
Nadia Bracken joined an inner dialogue I’ve been having for the last week or so when she posted the following in the Creative Giant Campfire yesterday: Takeaway Thursday Ya’ll — are blogging comments dead? […]
Transitions Always Take Longer Than We'd Like
Transitions always take longer than we’d like and than we anticipate. One of the biggest reasons for the difference between how long transitions take and how long we think they should take […]
That Something Makes You Happy Is Reason Enough to Do It
One of the exercises we asked people to do over the Wayfinder Weekend at the Wayfinding Academy was to find the Why under their passions and interests. As is always the case, […]
What If People Really Wanted to Know and Support You?
I realized earlier this week that I had completely misjudged your character. My first realization was that I had been doing it over the last week, but a deeper reflection made me […]
Your Light Is the Best Counter to Darkness
I’ve had a lot of conflicted thoughts about what to say about the Orlando shooting. There are so many twisted threads to it: that the shooter targeted people in the LGBTQ community; […]
What Counts As Meditation?
People often ask me what about my morning routine. I usually answer that I meditate for 15–30 minutes before I do anything else, but that answer has always been tentative for me because what I mean may not be what people think when they think of meditation. For some, what I do may not “count” as meditation.
I wrote about this on Facebook a few weeks ago and it was the most popular thing I’ve shared in a while, so I figured you might want to see it, too.
The Four Levels of Communication
You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept. – Kahlil Gibran Have you ever been in a conversation with someone and […]
How Not To Show Up Like An A-List Blogger
I’ve had trouble with what this website has been about since the start. This trouble has come in two stripes; one stripe has been talking about what it’s about to others and […]