Strong Story

“And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can’t go back to being normal; you can’t go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.”  — Donald Miller When I was in 8th grade, I won a trip to […]

As far as I can tell, there are four stories you can choose to live. You can choose to be a Dreamer. You can choose to be a Follower. You can choose to be an Opportunist. Or you can choose to live a Strong Story. In my previous article, Why Strengths Are All About The Story,

I was sitting in a class this past Sunday when we started talking about people who had overcome in spite of the hardships they faced, in spite of the culture around them, and in spite of the choices of others. It occurred to me that perhaps these people had overcome BECAUSE OF their hardships and

(I wrote this a few years back when I was having a rough day as a computer programmer.  It would eventually change the course of my life.) After camping on a mountain ledge, there are only 3 ways off: (1) Go up;  (2) Go down; (3) Die. Some make it to the ledge and having

What’s want but a second hand emotion? What’s want got to do, got to do with it? Who needs a want when a want can be broken? OK. Enough Tina Turner, right? But seriously, what does want have to do with anything? I mean besides EVERYTHING. You can’t even have a regular story, let alone a

Erik Erikson said, “Life doesn’t make sense without interdependence. We need each other and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.” To me it’s clear that we need each other. In fact, I don’t think we can really create awesome things without others. Two Definitions of Interdependence Give us Two Types of Contribution Most

  “Turn what’s in the way into the way.” Ryan Holiday Remember the old saying, “When you pick up one end of the stick, you pick up the other”? It turns out that this saying applies to all aspects of what we are trying to be and accomplish in life. If you’re trying to do great things,

Elon Musk, Richard Branson, and Jeff Bezos have all made headlines for their drive to conquer outer space. Their markets are different, but they share a common approach: to enter space on their terms, according to their strengths and desires. As they go along, they are creating the next chapter in the space story. This article is