We walk by each other with a fixed gaze and silent opinions. We determine who each other is and access one another in a matter of seconds. We are walking still photographs, interacting with each other in a one-dimensional cadence. We think we know, and…

There are three fundamental truths: We all want to love and be loved. People will be disappointed in you. You will be disappointed by others, and you will be disappointed in yourself. And there will be loss. If you examine the drive, the thrust, the…

Time is the single most influential element in the human quiver. People speak of wasting time, running out of time, being on time, managing time, finding time, killing time, and watching time fly. Such familiar expressions reveal more than habits of speech; they suggest that…

What we call an ending often obscures a beginning. We like to think that when something ends—an opinion, a project, a conversation—it has finished saying what it came to say. Often, it has only changed the terms of the conversation. Some things do end, and should….

When I coach, I listen for one governing note beneath all the noise: Will this fulfill? Whether I am guiding someone through an intimate relationship, a new partnership, the birth of a product, a passage from one season of life into another, or any decision…

Life is not a mystery, but it certainly can be filled with surprises. People’s behavior, their actions, reveal what’s important to them. Where they spend their time, what they’re attracted to, what distracts them, and what appears as obligatory or what implies something about them,…