Overcoming Your Special Needs
I first met Milliam 21 years ago in Kijabe, Kenya. My parents worked at a hospital compound on the escarpment of the Great Rift Valley. When we...
Journeys
10 Reasons Why a Gap Year is Your Best Choice in 2020
Your parents tell you "go to college," but colleges tell you, "we don't know what it's going to look like in the fall." They want you to attend, but d...
Dreaming
What To Do in a Season of Dying Dreams?
I just stayed at an Airbnb this past weekend. It was a beautiful place on a river just 25 minutes from my home. We had a great time. But you couldn't ...
Dreaming
Why Do Old Men Need to Dream Dreams?
A friend wrote in response to my last post about what to do when your dreams die. He said, "My natural tendency is to say, 'vision-casting' is the res...
Better Living
10 Things You Need To Leave to Move on From Covid-Time
One day in the future, when the vaccine or herd immunity arrives, we will leave our rabbit hole life and we will have changed, but how? The world will...
Identity issues
You Are Not Rejected
My wife is a therapist. While she never speaks about her clients, I can see how heavy this Covid crisis must be on therapists. People are carrying so ...
Innovation
Global U 2019 Annual Report: How Did We Do?
Two years ago, Josh Owen and I were talking about what prepared us to become entrepreneurs. He's 26 and I'm 62, but our experience in classrooms wa...
Dreaming
3 Secrets to Making a Risky Bet on Your Dream
Do you have a dream that seems like it will never see the light of day? Here we are as a nation swimming in uncertainty. It seems like the worst possi...
Comfort and Pain
A Blessing While Waiting for the Vaccine
It's a hard time for all of us. Life as we lived it doesn't work. But we haven't figured out the new life that we were meant to live. What do we do...
Prayer
What Does 'Keep Vigil' Mean? 5 Lessons During Covid
In the months ahead, a vaccine will arrive and we will walk without fear. But for the moment, we are in between. The world hasn't ended, but the world...
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