As a coach, I’ve learned close-up-and-personal that people have very different relationships with planning. This becomes apparent in...

“Faith and fear both need to be brought to the bargaining table to hammer out an agreement between them,” Gregg Levoy says of finding the...

"Where do I even begin?" is a question that occupies many of us when considering our next act or how to leap or pivot into the work of...

Once poetry took hold in my life, I thought "that's all she wrote," but sometimes another calling comes in through the backdoor. When I...

Periodically, I get frozen in the midst of a project because I can’t see from here to the end. A great example of this is our basement,...

As Kathryn and I (at the Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow in Arkansas) put the finishing touches on the upcoming Your Right Livelihood...

I had a gorgeous friend during my college years, and she even had a colorful name – Hester. She was a woman of bold and impetuous action,...

As the joke goes, anyone in 2016 who thought they knew exactly where they'd be in five years back was wrong. Who could have predicted a...

I’m surprised at how often I hear this. Since 2002 I’ve been coaching people in career development and job search, and there’s been a...

e We love visiting with people about the work that calls to you, whether it's for livelihood, art, and/or service. That's why we're...

After I was thrown out of journalism school at the University of Missouri (long story involving activism and graphic design gone bad), my...

Nothing like making a plan, especially when it comes to your livelihood, to make God (or anyone for that matter) laugh. So let's talk...