More or Less: Choosing a Lifestyle of Excessive Generosity

I wanted to be something different, and my friends just wanted me to be me. Other people need me; they don’t need some persona that I want to be.

By design, we must fully live the life that only we can live. Every person that lives less than his or her potential is limiting all human potential because that person is not offering the world the fullness of his or her true self.

Steven Pressfield makes a great point related to this important role and how it affects our understanding of ourselves in his masterful book The War of Art: “Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It’s a gift to the world and every being in it. Don’t cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you’ve got

out how to get a win in solving the problem, a guy with no vested interest, no sweat equity, no voice that has a right to be heard, yells from the stands and tries to bring us down. It’s the last thing we need to hear in that moment, but for some reason we listen. We question everything we do. Can we really even make a dent in this problem? The pro

When it comes down to it, people often say “necessary” when what they really mean is “convenient.” And I’ll give them that; it’s incredibly convenient to own a car. It’s inconvenient to make dinner plans and have to leave an hour ahead of time to catch the right buses. It’s inconvenient to carry a heavy coat well into the spring because you know yo

The things I see in the mirror will continue to change. The question I have to answer is, “How will I respond to what I see?”

Generous people view their possessions as temporary; they are joining in a bigger story. Generous people are always looking toward the needs of others by using what they have been given. Things don’t matter; people do. They open their house to others. They open their pool for parties. They let people borrow their cars. They freely give, with no ret

Excess is that thing that we could give away today, and it wouldn’t change a single aspect of our tomorrow.