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Explorers Manifesto

Thirteen of us just completed our maiden Explorers journey. Earlier this summer, while hiking the Colorado Trail, three profound yet straightforward questions occupied my heart and mind. Where am I? […]

It’s Love That Wrote the Play

In times like these, it’s easy, even sensible, for hope to wane. How long can hope wait before cynicism wins?I’ve been singing this anthem of hope to myself when I […]

The Master in the Art of Living

My friend Sam has this quote from James Michener in his Hawaiian home on the hillside above Waimea. His playful life disrupted mine more than a decade ago. I didn’t […]

Start Close In

Poet David Whyte writes,“Start close in,don’t take the second stepor the third,start with the firstthingclose in,the stepyou don’t want to take.” The first step is the hardest to take. We […]

How Do You Define Adventure?

Years ago, sea kayaking in Scotland, I asked our guide, Tony Hammock, “How do you define adventure?” His first response was laughter, “I’m not sure I’ve ever bothered.” A perfect […]

The Books That I’m Ingesting This Year

This morning, feeling the crispness of autumn breeze through my window, I started to see a loose form, a blurry but distinct outline. My stack of books starts animating in […]

What Seeds Are You Planting?

Friend, We’re here together, in the middle of the beginning of a pandemic story, with the future uncertain and, what if? What if we… invite simplicity back find flow in […]

How to Manage Your Daily Energy

The When and What Strategy When at my lowest point of burnout, the quality of my questions kept improving, aiding my recovery, and returning strength. Using two simple words, “When” […]

Soulful work that took me ten years to finish

“Be who you really are and go the whole way”. In 600 B.C., I think what Lao Tzu was getting at when he wrote that sentence was something like Get […]

Less but better, Winning Streak

Hey friends, I was having a conversation with my wife yesterday, and she encouraged me to reach out to you. A lot has happened since I wrote back in January. […]