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

Just because you think it… doesn’t mean it’s true. Albert Einstein said it best: “The world we have created is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” Taking Thoughts Captive Spiritually speaking, Scripture reminds us in 2 Corinthians 10:5 that we are invited to “take every thought captive.” In the original Greek, “taking every thought captive” uses a word for capturing prisoners of war, painting a picture of active restraint — not pass