Choosing a career gets treated like a strategy problem: what pays well, what’s in demand, what checks the boxes other people expect. Underneath all of that sits a deeper, mostly unexamined issue. Most people try to choose what to do before they understand who they are. Without clarity about internal motivation, career decisions become guesses…
Most people spend their lives trying to find happiness in life, chasing goals, relationships, or achievements that promise fulfillment. Yet even after reaching those milestones, many discover that happiness fades as quickly as it arrives. For years, I wondered why that was. Why do some people radiate peace and contentment while others, with all the…
Exploring the four archetypes as life themes helps explain how these timeless symbols shape identity and guide the course of a life. Archetypes are living symbols, capturing the essence of human behavior through roles that appear again and again across mythology and lived experience. There are four universal motivating archetypes of identity, or what I…
Symbols give meaning to life by giving us the opportunity to express ourselves with more richness and complexity. When you think of symbols, you might first think of something like a conventional symbol such as a brand logo like the Nike swish or the Apple logo. These symbols are obvious and intentional representations of something. …
What Kind of Work is Calling You? If you’re like most people, you’ll spend about a third of your life in an occupation, and you’ll spend most of that time working just to pay the bills. No matter how you slice it, your work is a huge part of your life. But finding satisfying, fulfilling…
What is personality? Most of us think we have a good grasp of it. But there appear to be some issues and contradictions surrounding the concept which can inhibit us from attaining a clear understanding. One problem is that the term personality has been used to refer to something public, yet in other instances it…