How many doors do you walk through in a day? Stepping forward to next. Making your way through the busyiness, the meetings, the coffee chats, the greetings, propelling toward meaning, finding your way right here. I'm inviting you inward, over the threshold, through the frame. Open this door to the exquisite, a place you do more than just visit. Discover a mindset that will reset, plant a seed, add to your tool set. Embrace the curious adventurer on your shoulder, growing boulder, whispering gently in your e ...

ashes to ashes, dust to dust. I'm on my back in a casket, looking up at loved ones as they come to the front and pass. Wish I could reach out and hug, but I can't cuz my time is up.Was it well spent. Am I hellbent. Or am I headed to heaven.I'm listening close to the words of the Reverend. What is he saying. I can't hear.I try to move, but my body stays still. Matter of fact, how do I even get here. Wait, I'm scared.They close the casket. Now I'm getting carried. My paw bears are in tears.We head to the ceme ...

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. When I first heard that quote by Howard Thurman, I just graduated from college and it inspired me to pursue my dreams. See, I had turned a negative situation around. In high school, I was a star basketball player and standing at 6'8, I knew that was a promising path. But in college, I rode the bench and I dealt with personal adversity in the form of betrayal with someone I was dating at ...

When I was a child in the Philippines, I was told exactly what success would look like. Study hard, get a degree, find a stable career, and help your family. So I did.I earned a doctorate degree in education, became a university leader, served as vice president for academics, overseeing 25 programs, and guiding 20 deans who looked to me for leadership. By every measure, I knew I was successful. This was my success.I need to make it more tangible because I am a visual learner and I understand things better w ...

I am a clinical psychologist and today you will discover if you belong to team MadMax or team Little Red Riding Hood. Which one does sound better to you. But before starting, I don't think it's really a mystery for you where I come from, isn't it.Uh my hand gestures, my accent, all of me says Italy. So I moved from Milan to Wongong few years ago following the passion for my work. When I was living in Italy, I knew everything about that world.You don't have a cappuccino after 11:00 a. m. You don't order pizz ...

La resiliencia no es sonreír después de cada golpe, es crecer, madurar y mantener la dignidad incluso en medio del dolor. Resistir, resistir no siempre es aguantar, a veces aprender a hacerlo junto a otros. Yo lo entendí trabajando en una oficina de gobierno, supervisando centros nocturnos en Ciudad Juárez, México. En una de esas noches me encontraba en una escena que no he podido olvidar. Niñas entre 6, 7 años. afuera de un bar cuidando sus hermanitos más pequeños, esperando a que su mamá salía a trabajar, ...

If you had been with me in the car on August 4th, 2020, when I was headed back to the hospital for a meeting with my boss in that torrential storm with the fierce winds and the sideways rain, you would have seen me grip the steering wheel with both hands just to keep the car in the lane. Thankfully, as I pulled into the lot, the storm began to ease up. I parked, I grabbed my umbrella, got ready to rush inside.But now I could hear the sound of sirens. It's a hospital. Sirens are common.But this felt differen ...

How many of you have ever felt like you weren't enough? I know I have. For 3 years, I let the voices of others become louder than my own. From my mother's daily checks on the scale to toxic diet culture in the media, weight comparisons with my peers, and even being body shamed since the second grade for having legs that were just too big. I became so consumed by who the world told me to be that I completely lost sight of who I actually was. And this almost cost me my life. But standing here today as a survi ...

When I was eight, my dad bought me my first Apple Watch. Initially, I expected to experience the most advanced technology since I was really crazy about those electronic devices at that age. Since then, I checked every notification of house on my watch.Whenever I heard beep from my watch, I knew it was a time to stand for another one minute or I still had to rapidly walk for 80 minutes to complete my fitness circle. Additionally, it it was the key to communication. When I met my friends or classmates, they ...

Hello everyone, my name is Dipali Madhur and when I was 13, someone in my family called me ugly. Not cruy, just casually. And by the time I turned 15, just like most of us, I was asked this one question very often.What would you become when you grow up. I didn't have an answer to that either. So on one hand I didn't feel beautiful. On the other I didn't feel exceptional.And you know when you're feeling like neither you quietly start believing that you're already behind. Don't we always start looking at mass ...