Courage doesn’t exist without vulnerability. Brené Brown described it best when she asked the audience in her Netflix special The Call to Courage to think of a single instance of heroism where the hero wasn’t placed in a situation of extreme vulnerability. It’s always someone risking their life, risking looking like a fool, risking their worldly...

Commitment. It’s a word that either invokes warm feelings of security or a pang of dread to the very core. It’s a word I’ve consistently run from because it seemed scary and I thought I wasn’t good at it. I am definitely subpar in this area in certain parts of my life, but when I look at my professional life I see how deep commitment has produced...

I’ve made a few decisions over the past couple of months that have thrown my life into a state of uncertainty. I made them willingly and thoughtfully, but thrown I am regardless. I guess that’s all life is, really: uncertain situation after uncertain situation. We never know what tomorrow brings, or even the next minute. There have been countless...

Everything in life has a certain push and pull, a positive and negative. So it is with ambition and acceptance.  I use the word ambition here to address all types of personal development; it’s that constant forward motion of “bettering ourselves.” Acceptance, then, would be a state of stillness; the act of sitting with who you are and where...

Christmas is a time of giving. It's the season of merriness, warmth and good eats, but most of all, it’s about generosity.  Depending on how you were raised, the generosity presents itself in the form of God sending his son to us on earth, Santa traveling around the world in a night to give gifts to all the little boys and girls, or your...