Today’s Peace of Wisdom Comes from Giving of Yourself to Others
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Peace of Wisdom
One topic. One honest look at it. Each Peace of Wisdom takes a single idea — a habit worth building, a setback worth reframing, a word worth choosing carefully — and turns it over until something useful comes loose. Short enough to read in a minute, sturdy enough to stay with you.
Forgiveness
I recently read the story of an exhausted firefighter who fell asleep at the wheel on his way home after a long, difficult shift, crashing his car just four miles from home. The accident took the life of a young pregnant mother, and injured her little girl. A short...
The Blessing of a Helping Hand
A friend recently shared a valuable lesson he learned as a child. He and his dad were headed for the dumpster one afternoon with a couple bags of trash. A neighbor, running the same errand, noticed and graciously stopped and offered to take theirs. Not wanting to be...
Simplicity
Simplicity is a term you might associate with something being easy, but Leonardo DaVinci said, “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” Simplicity is a practice you can invite into every facet of your life – business, relationships, finances… even the kitchen. ...
Loneliness
Even extroverts need some alone time now and then – but solitude and loneliness are two very different things. Loneliness is a sadness that envelops us because our social needs aren’t being met. Our post-pandemic world, with more people working remotely, is...
Building Self-Trust
Do you trust yourself? It might sound like a silly question, but think about it for a moment. Self-trust is recognizing your capacity to handle what life throws at you. When you build self-trust you can possess confidence and comfort in knowing that you find a way to...
Humility
If you became one of the richest people in the world, would you continue to live in the same house? That’s exactly what Warren Buffet did – in fact, he’s still living in the same five bedroom house he bought more than a half century ago. It’s safe to assume he can...
A Right Sized Ego
Imagine you have a flat tire. You pull over and unfasten your spare. You have the jack and lug nut wrench ready to go. A good soul stops and offers help. But you know how to change a tire and you’ve got this. So you politely decline and they leave. After you’ve...
Discipline
Frog man…Navy SEAL…these words conjure images of fearless warriors emerging from dark, oily seas. Hulking figures whose weapons and equipment drip with the brine of lashing tides. They accomplish the impossible and are forged into supermen by discipline. On their...