Pick one of these activities, try it out, and then write about it in your Possibilities Journal: Go to a local newsstand and intentionally buy and read a handful of magazines you’ve never read before—and that previously never appealed to you. If you like science magazines, buy a publication with short stories. If sports is your regular read, take

the formula for exploration. The formula is: G + P + V. G stands for gifts. It’s where you should begin when you’re exploring a choice, a change, or a possibility. What are your strengths? How can you explore using them? P stands for passion. Ask yourself, “What do I care about?” “What needs doing in the world—or in my community?” Consider putting

That’s the biggest trigger that I have ever experienced. What are you going to do with the rest of your life? What I had to do, I had to start taking some of my own advice. I had been telling people, I had written about it for a very long time, that if you’re doing something that you’re not totally committed to, if you’re doing something that

in a world of change, there are two constants: having your own purpose and being connected to others.

The point is to examine that story and then to use it to reimagine what’s possible going forward—to use the threads that are the through-lines of your past to weave a new story for the future.

You can make money, you can lose money. You cannot make time. Once it’s gone, it’s gone. Forever. So I’m not going to spend another moment, another second of my life doing anything just to make money. Anything that I do now is something that I’m doing because I am totally passionate about it and committed to it.

The difference between choosing and acting is like the difference between having a purpose and having a goal. A goal is a specific result that you want to achieve, like losing 10 pounds. Purpose is the “why” behind the goal. The difference between the two is time. To reach your goal you set a deadline: I’m going to lose ten pounds in the next three

Here are the three questions people need to ask themselves when they claim that they can’t afford to do what they really want to do until they make enough money: “How much is enough?” “How badly do you want to do it?” And “What does it cost you not to do what you really want to do?”

The list of possible fears is endless—and living with fear can become a habitual way of going through life.