“They need to learn the value of money, but they don’t want to get a job.” Because of what I do for work, some of my friends who are parents of teenagers vent to me about their “lazy” children. “I lined up a well-paying summer job for them and they refused to take it.” My response is, “Good,” which is usually followed by an awkward silence.

I ask, “What is it your children actually want to do?” M...

If the work is disconnected from anything meaningful, then of course nobody wants to do it. Why would we? As a humanity, we have awakened to the notion that our lives matter and that our time on this planet is brief. We’ve been shaken out of the status quo and rushed pell-mell into a brand new reality. In this new world, many of us are feeling the call to make a genuine contribution through our wo...

Do you ever question why you work? At one time, I sure did. I was stuck in a career path where I was making good money, yet I was left feeling numb and completely uninspired by life. I remember lashing out at the people around me thinking they were “so uninspiring”. I laugh at myself now. It took me having a mental breakdown to realize the person who was so uninspiring was ME. This recognition cha...

“Sometimes, I wonder how you do it,” a friend said to me recently. Over the last 13 years, he has been witness to both the highs and lows I have experienced in bringing my inspired work to the world. “It’s easy,” I said, “I’m living a life true to myself.”

Before he and I met, what seems like another lifetime now, I was living a lie. It was the worst. Some days I wished I were dead. Many days I f...