. As a thought experiment, consider this — if I had entitled this piece Read This: It’s Important. Would that have had an impact on you? One of the most important things I coach people on these days is fillers…the awareness and removal of extraneous and unnecessary sounds, words, and…

Enough. When I think of getting another tattoo, the word ‘enough’ often comes to mind. When I think about what I struggle with most, it’s the concept of enough. Enough already. I have enough. Enough is enough. I am enough. I do enough. I often coach others, “you are enough.” …

I am seeing so many things about finding your purpose these days. (Hell, even I recently wrote an article about ‘your life is your message.’)Perhaps this inundation of purpose-based talk is because Providence just offered us a year’s worth of isolation and, for many, deep inner reflection. Perhaps it’s because…

One Thing at a Time. Of the many losses throughout the pandemic, one that I felt most profoundly was the death of a beloved mentor: Jewel Walker. Jewel lived a good and long life. He was 93 when he left this realm. I had the pleasure of visiting him in…

Resist: yes or no? What will it take to let go And tap into flow. Buddhist monk and activist Thich Nhat Hanh said, “Our own life has to be our message.” I have spent days contemplating this quote since I came across it. As a writer and creative, I love…

Once upon a time, having returned from the Peace Corps in Micronesia, trying to find my footing back in the U.S., I took a job as a live-in nanny for three boys and their parents. …

I teach storytelling in the workplace. It’s a great privilege. Often, when the day begins, people say things like, “I’m not a storyteller,” or, “I have no stories.” By the end of every single session, every person I have ever taught has delivered a story. In these courses, we take…

Cultivating Compassion in the Long Hallway Between — Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. -Arundhati Roy As Arundhati Roy said, the pandemic is a portal, and I believe it is. I’ve come…

As a creative artist, one of the things I deal with is not a lack of ideas but rather distilling and choosing from the plethora of ideas that fill my head. So this morning, I asked one of my three brothers, Jack Uldrich, if he had any requests for my…