I was accused recently of being unfocused. This lady challenged me to decide whether I was a coach, a writer, or a TV personality. She couldn’t imagine that one person could do all of these well and so she told me, in no uncertain terms, that I was just probably being average at all of [...]

“How shall we live?” is a challenging question. But an interesting variation is to ask: What kind of person do you want to be when you die?
When I think about the kind of person I want to be when I die, the question that is most pressing to me is this: Did I do my [...]

I’ve had hundreds of haircuts in my lifetime. Most of them I have no memory of. A few are memorable because of big changes in style or important barbershop conversations. For me, however, I had one haircut that changed my life. It revealed to me a truth that I was completely unprepared for. It horrified [...]