We as individuals spend so much time planning for what success is supposed to look like within our lives. We choose a school. We map out a career and we build these mental checklists of everything that we're supposed to do and timelines for which to do them.Maybe for you that plan looks like landing your dream job or getting to into a grad school or starting a business or maybe it's getting married and having kids. And somewhere along the way, we convince ourselves that if everything goes according to our p ...

What happens when life takes your breath away. Not just figuratively, literally. It happened for me while I was pursuing my dream at a Big 10 university as a division one track and field athlete.After a week of breathless workouts, my coach looked at me and said, "This is not anything that looked like before. You are struggling. You are pushing, but you are not recovering. Go see a doc." Now, it was a hard thing to do, I have to admit, because as a athlete, we are trained to power through. But something was ...