My Favorite Influencer While I was on a run, I passed a church billboard that read, “The Holy Spirit is our favorite influencer.” The message stayed with me. We are being influenced all the time, especially now, in the age of social media, where people are literally called influencers. Scrolling our feeds influences how we think, feel, and even what we believe. The algorithms then feed us more of what reinforces those thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. We tend to seek out what

The contentment you seek and the life you really want are often hidden at first and eventually found where you least expect. Or an opportunity comes along that makes you appreciate that you are radically content with the life you have built. I wrote an email a few years ago about a story that captured this second truth. Here’s the story. — A successful businessman was on vacation in a small coastal village when he noticed a fisherman docking his small boat with a few freshly

You may think you’re “thinking something through." Yet sometimes what feels like thinking is actually anxious-overthinking. We all get anxious — it’s part of life. Yet how we deal with it matters. When Thinking Becomes Anxious Overthinking If we don’t understand how anxiety works, it’s easy to slip into anxiety-driven overthinking. When the mind doesn’t have enough information, it naturally tries to fill in the gaps. And unfortunately, it often fills them with worst-case scen