Every year I do what I call my 40 for whatever age I'm turning. This year is 40 for 45. For forty days, I ask myself some deep questions about what I want for the year ahead. I used to do it as a prayer exercise with Mark Batterson's Draw the Circle prayer challenge, but ... read more >
It’s Week 5 of Prep Season, and a switch has been flipped on in my brain, and I am waking up even more. It feels like someone pressed pause on my life in 2019 and has slowly lifted it as we move further into 2026. My life wasn’t exactly swinging in 2019 either, but it ... read more >
I feel disconnected from my environment because I don’t relate to the people around me beyond a superficial level. I realized that was because I had been looking only at my daily life here in San Francisco, and I have no deep roots of community here, and I think it’s by design. I am rediscovering ... read more >
Unemployment, career transitions, life transitions, and grief change our worlds in ways so few are willing to discuss because of the uncertainty they entail. We are no longer who we were, and we are not sure who we will be. When going through a season of transition, it is tempting to put our lives on ... read more >
We are officially two weeks into Prep Season for the Fall Acceleration! I am now in a season that I call “The Void.” It’s a space full of uncertainty and incompleteness. I know that I have moved on from my old life, but the new life is not yet in view. In the New York ... read more >
The Fall Push is my annual period of intense focus on my goals. I have heard experts say that fall is a great time to make progress toward goals because most of us are conditioned for Back to School, and, seasonally, it feels like a time of new beginnings with the harvest. This year, I ... read more >
Since the beginning of 2026, I have had a sense that I should not make any sudden moves before June 30. I am so eager to move forward in my life, but I am willing to trust the whispers, as I can sense my life is aligning, and I don’t need to disrupt the process. ... read more >
I read The Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes in January, and I got fired up. I was ready to say yes to new opportunities that scared and challenged me, and to step out of my comfort zone. At the beginning of the year, I said yes to reconnecting with my favorite people, going to ... read more >
When I read Shonda Rhimes’ book Year of Yes, I was inspired by all of the exciting things she said yes to. Of course, I am not Shonda Rhimes, and I didn’t expect anyone to ask me to make a commencement speech or do a TEDx Talk, but I thought I would be saying yes ... read more >
I am showing up. I don’t know what I am showing up for. That is not entirely true because over the past three months, I have built systems, rhythms, and routines for my life, and now it’s time to execute. This is the no-so-fun part for me because I like building and creating the systems. ... read more >
