Calling

What is perceived as laziness is often the result of simply being stuck. Accepting the gifts of our shadow self may be the best way to get unstuck.

Identifying your strengths pays huge dividends in the form of increases in happiness, well-being, meaning, and purpose. This book shows you how.

Here are three of my top resources for discerning your calling, depending on your decision-making style.

The Conscience Code provides ten steps to help you fight for your values. But what if you don’t know what your values are in the first place?

Life does not serve rules. Rules serve life, or they are simply the wrong rules.

In this book, Jonathan Haidt distills time tested wisdom for living well from the world’s religious traditions and insights from contemporary social psychology into ten lessons for living well.

Shawn Achor’s suggested practices are staples of my own practice of cultivating the optimal mindset.

The Power of Meaning introduces the foundational elements for crafting a more meaningful life, along with promising practices for cultivating them.

Rick Hanson provides a trove of scientifically based (and wisdom-tradition-endorsed) practices for leading one’s life with compassion, courage, and positive impact.

Neuroscience shows that we can leverage the architecture of our brains to create a more peaceful and productive mind.

Rituals enhance our lives by transforming ordinary actions into the extraordinary. Go out and experiment.

The Enchiridion is timeless wisdom for all those who want to live freely and decide wisely.