Setting Direction

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” […]

Seeking Advice From Our Younger Guide

On my office wall, I have a four- by five-inch photo of myself taken in 1994 standing in the doorframe of a burnt orange and primer gray Ford cattle truck […]

10 Sustainable Ways to Live Your Life

We aren’t designed to live the way we do. In fact, until the invention of the train, man lived at an average pace of three miles per hour. For all […]

Betting My Life on What I Believe

My savings account just hit zero. We’ve bet our life on what we believe, and I’d like to shoot straight with you about what its been like the last seven […]

Lessons From A Monastery

I’m listening to a rooster crow outside my window on this foggy morning in The Netherlands. The monastery I’m staying at has a daily rhythm giving continuity to each day, […]

It’s Time For a New Truth Over Your Life

In High School, I dumped dish soap in the fish tank in biology. I denied I had anything to do with the floating fish and suds. The principal later confided […]

To Find Each Other and Draw Closer

I taped this picture on the dash of my car over my speedometer to remind me of what I want. It’s taken from the crux scene in A Secret Life […]

Dreaming Big Can Feel Impractical

For some, dreaming big can feel impractical, illogical and “squishy.” You know – like half-baked, not fully cooked or in focus yet. But I’ve learned to like squishy dreams.Here was […]

Annual Review: Taking an Honest Look at This Year

After interviewing Guy Kawasaki this month, I realized that my mantra is “Live on Purpose.” Everything I do here on Work Life Play is fundamentally undergirded by my passion for […]