Not only is it possible to run our life’s work on clean, renewable, internal energy, it is perhaps the most important thing we can do to make a meaningful, nourishing, and truly sustainable contribution over the long haul.
There is no resistance or suffering that hasn’t eventually passed when I simply keep breathing into it for long enough.
Lately, “leadership coach” just doesn’t really convey what I do or reflect what I care most about. My hope is that “purpose coach” both differentiates me further from the crowd and is a clearer distillation of what I actually do.
We sometimes overly center the role of healing in our lives. It’s as if we believe the whole point of our life is to heal our emotional wounds, that healing is the end goal. It’s not.
Perhaps the most transcendent and highest form of healing our own emotional wounds is to offer to the world what we needed but didn’t get.
Every time I find some excuse not to do the thing, I am just showing that I don’t actually fully trust myself. Every time I show up and put in the work, the universe nudges me along toward what I most want for myself.
Feeling successful has an alluring, habit-forming quality. You will naturally be drawn to do whatever makes you feel successful and proud of yourself.
It’s not actually our pain that stands in our way. It’s our wounds that hinder us. It’s our wounds that need to be healed. Our pain is simply the loyal messenger that will keep delivering its message until it is heeded.
At the end of last year, Sara and I decided to end our romantic relationship. But we haven’t separated in the usual sense. We still live together, raise our kids together, and hope to do so for the foreseeable future.
