You’re treating your coping mechanisms as the problem.

Your core essence is your source of meaning, purpose, vitality, and joy and can only truly be accessed through the instrument of your body.

With a zag, you can start a new category that your customers, your employees, your partners—even your competitors—will help you build.

This is what I call satisfaction practice. We focus on what we have, rather than what we lack, what we’ve done rather than what we need to do. We give our accomplishments weight, even if they seem puny at first, for, like a snowball rolling downhill, our accomplishments gather bulk and momentum as we focus on them.

We have conflated being and doing, and now we need to separate them to downshift.

The hills of life come. A lot of us stuff those questions down. Then things usually start to crack apart as if life is trying to seize our attention. Instead of taking time to pay attention to the key questions, we usually try some distracting intervention. A new relationship, a new purchase, or an off-the-wall decision hides the fact we’re graspin

Do you spend most of your days working isolated by yourself on a computer in a dark room?

To act upon this self-awareness would mean defining herself, i.e., differentiating herself from the tribe and thus making herself vulnerable to rejection,

Most businesses sell the product or service and throw the customer away. The purpose of the sale is to get the customer.