WANTED: A Lifelong Passion to Build a Career Around

(Hint: You probably won’t find the answer by doing a Google search.) A lot is made these days about “finding your passion.” We tell college graduates and those early in their career: know your purpose, focus your career around your passion, and you’re going to have...

Perfection is Overrated

How to win at this brilliant thing called life. We’re in the midst of graduation season — that wonderful time of year when I hear excerpts from inspiring commencement speeches; when I reflect back and remember myself with flawlessly wrinkle-free skin (but grossly...

Checking Myself Out

Are we human beings or human doings? That is a question that my dear friend Sam Perkins used to pose when we’d be sitting on one of our much anticipated “phone marathons”. On the face of it Sam and I were unlikely mates given our natural orientations to life. I’ve...

Humble, Thankful, Brave and Wild!

Well it’s been a month since I made my big leap, and I’ve realized that much of the emotion I have experienced in that time feels like an elongated form of bungy jumping. Let me start by explaining what bungy, or bungee in America, jumping actually feels like – for...

Break Yourself To Make Yourself​

Today I’m making a scary and exciting leap. I’m moving on from my dream job to follow my passion. I’m one of the luckiest people in the world to get to do what I really love in life – and that’s empowering people of all kinds to get more out of their lives. Whether...