From “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything” by Stephen M. R. Covey Simply put, trust means confidence. The opposite of trust – distrust – is suspicion. When you trust people, you have confidence in them, in their integrity and in their abilities. When you distrust, you are suspicious of them –

From “Listen To Your Day: The Life-Changing Practice of Paying Attention” by Paul Angone You see, no self-help book can give you the exact formula for leading a successful, fruitful, meaningful life. A book can, and should, help you lay the groundwork. But how you build the walls and construct the house needs to be

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From “The Language of the Soul: Meeting God in the Longings of Our Hearts” by Jeff Crosby  All of us carry, I’m convinced, deep-seated longings or yearnings in our heart. It is how we are wired as people, whether we are conscious of it or not. And I’ve come to believe that being attentive to

From “Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life” by Luke Burgis Don’t take desires at face value. Find out where they lead. Sit with competing desires and project them into the future. Let’s say you have two competing job offers: Company A and Company B. If you have two days to make the

From “How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion” by David McRaney The first lesson of The Dress is that our disagreements begin at the level of perceptual assumptions, because all reality is virtual; but it doesn’t stop at perceptual disagreement. As Pascal said, since the world inside a person’s head is

From “Cumulative Advantage: How to Build Momentum for Your Ideas, Business, and Life Against All Odds” by Mark W. Schaefer Margaret Heffernan, a professor at the University of Bath, said an entrepreneurial leader today has to pursue curiosity like an artist: “What does an artist do? They notice, they investigate, they seek to understand what’s

From “Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life” by Richard Rohr So we need boundaries, identity, safety, and some degree of order and consistency to get started personally and culturally. We also need to feel “special”; we need our “narcissistic fix.” By that I mean, we all need some successes, response, and

From “What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman” by Lerita Coleman Brown Howard Thurman mentored many activists in the civil rights movement and would come to serve as its unofficial spiritual guide and adviser. Drawn to his presence and wisdom, many civil rights leaders – including Bayard Rustin, James Farmer, James

From “Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life” by Henri Nouwen with Michael J. Christensen and Rebecca J. Laird What do I mean by seeing the world the way God sees it? This is important for discerning – for seeing rightly. In the Gospels, there are many examples of Jesus not giving a direct answer