I believe … that we should measure our worth in lives changed rather than in dollars made. we each have something to contribute to the world and it’s our life’s work to […]
Philosophy
Every Moment Is a Chance to Practice
Many of us live by high ideals. The challenge of living with such high ideals is that we often find we don’t live up to them. We want to be openly generous […]
Which Type of Love Are You Cultivating?
Many of us are at a disadvantage when it comes to defining what love means, for many modern languages only have one word whose context determines the appropriate meaning. The Greeks were […]
Take Care of Others by Taking Care of Yourself First
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Vlad Dolezal from Fun Life Development. It was the beginning of spring. The snow had just melted, and Agatha the Spider had gone outside […]
Teach Girls, End World Poverty
The amount of suffering and death caused as a result of poverty is staggering. The poorest 46 percent of people in the world have a mere 1.2 per cent of the income. […]
Does It Matter If I Know What I’m Doing?
[If you’re reading this via email or RSS, you might need to click through to watch the video.] In this vlog, I raise a counter-intuitive problem: there are cases in which knowing […]
Why We Need More Reflection on Enough
Earlier today, I tweeted the following statement: Been thinking a lot about what “Enough” means for my life and biz. If I don’t know where there is, how can I get there? […]
How to Swim through a Sea of Social Troubles without Drowning
To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea […]
Aligning Strategy and Compassion
Today’s post is a conversation I wish someone would’ve had with me years ago before I started my entrepreneurial journey. I may not have been able to understand it then, but it […]
The Missing Half of Productivity Advice: Why Women Need to Get Involved
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Ali Hale from Aliventures. I‘m a woman, and I care about productivity. So today I want to start reaching towards some answers to the […]
Is An Automated Response Better Than No Response At All?
[I’m trying something slightly different here. Some of you may have hear me musing about snippets on Twitter last week, but basically, “snippets” are ideas that are longer than tweets but shorter […]
Ask Charlie: What Are The Different Types of Intelligence?
Note: In the “Ask Charlie” posts, I answer the questions I get from people via email or Twitter. I’m here to please! ;p This one comes from Hope Flanagan: Question/Suggestion: Write on […]
Smoke, Mirrors, and Lemonade
Having the skill to reframe experiences, perspectives, and statements is a powerful skill to have. It can help you get the most out of life, and it’s a critical skill to have […]
Why I'm Helping Haiti The Way I Am
[If you’re reading this in a feed reader or email, you might have to click through to watch the video.] This one’s hard to nail. It’s a video follow-up to my last […]
How to Think About Possibility – And Why It Matters
The idea of possibility is so embedded into our thinking and language that we often forget that it’s something to think about, but it turns out that a deeper understanding of possibility […]
When Helping Someone Else Helps You
This is the first post in a series about ethical entrepreneurship. In this part of the series, we ask what’s the difference between being helped as an entrepreneur versus being helped as a person.
Would You Buy Happiness?
I’ve been thinking about a few ideas for the last couple of weeks, and rather than launch into what I think, I’d love to hear what you think. So, here we go: […]
Meaning Comes From Us
(If you’re reading this via RSS or email, you may have to click through to watch the video.) Today’s one-take wonder is a response to a brief Twitter exchange I had with […]