The world needs your courage. These books will help you find it. — Everyone wants to live a courageous life, but how? The world can feel frightening, and we often find ourselves settling for the easy path over the right one. Most of us want to move forward in faith, but we get stuck in patterns of fear, anxiety, and hopelessness. Maybe there’s…

Which one should you listen to? — It was the summer of 2018 and I had recently returned from four months abroad in Florence, Italy. I was heading into my last semester of college and I had only one question on my mind, “What’s next?” Here were my options. One, move to Italy for the man of…

Learning Italian taught me more about life than language. — If you speak three languages, you’re trilingual. If you speak two languages, you’re bilingual. If you speak one language, you’re American. Ouch… but true? 80% of Americans speak only one language fluently. …

The moment you start believing you begin becoming. — I have vivid dreams for my future. Not abstract goals. Crystal clear images. Although these mental pictures illustrate possibilities, not realities, I believe in them. I act as if they could come true. Couldn’t they? It’s not enough to have a dream. You must also believe you can achieve it…

#6: Life is like being at the dentist. You always think the worst is still to come, and yet it is over already.” — If you’ve ever read Psychologist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl’s book, Man’s Search for Meaning, you know it’s packed with wisdom on how to discover your unique purpose and lead a meaningful life. Frankl never promises life’s easy. He simply proves it’s worth it. Here are eleven Viktor Frankl quotes…

And why finding meaning is not only fulfilling, but fundamental. — “It is we ourselves who must answer the questions that life asks of us, and to these questions we can respond only by being responsible for our existence.” — Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning Viktor Frankl died the day I was born almost 25 years ago. By writing this…

Where there is no vulnerability, there is no courage — “At least she tried.” I told my sister she can write that on my tombstone if I end up being a complete failure by all worldly standards. She thought I was being hilarious, but I was being honest. I can think of a million worse ways to be remembered. For…

Trust me, I learned this lesson the hard way. — Extrapolation. That’s the word for when you take one moment in time and stretch it to have significance over your whole life. That’s the word for when you think the way things are are the way things will always be. And that’s the word that will effectively make or break…

Wisdom to help you show up after you get shut down. — I’ve been attempting to be accepted by a prestigious Medium publication for almost a year to no avail. I’m not going to say which one because it’s irrelevant and not their fault for rejecting my work. Maybe my style isn’t a good fit, or likely my writing isn’t good enough…