I thought AI was pulling me away from real life. Then I used it as a coach, and it led me straight back.

Most of us are handed a script long before we’re old enough to realize we’re acting in someone else’s play. Five questions that helped me ditch the script.

I said out loud that I needed a sign about the novel, then forgot about it. Hours later, a license plate at a stoplight read LRN2FLY.

One study I read years ago changed how I praised my sons that same day. Watching how it shaped them is the closest thing to proof I have.

In 1988, on mess duty aboard a Navy destroyer, a sailor named Davis taught me the sentence I still reach for whenever life stops making sense.

There are probably many people in your life who believe in your ability to succeed. Mom or dad or the significant other. But those individuals’ own lives consume the bulk of their time. They are too busy…

Journaling, puzzles, and hunting shark teeth gave me everything the meditation books promised. Then something surprising happened when I sat back down to try the real thing.

Hate making mistakes? Me too. But unless you never attempt anything hard, making mistakes comes with living a full life. I've made a lot of them, but I'm lucky to have a daily reminder of the importance of being free to make those mistakes. It comes from…

I waited years to start the things I cared about most, until two of the most productive people I know taught me to get it done first and make it good later.

For readers who know me only from my novel and other writing, there’s another side of my life: I run an information technology firm that helps multibillion-dollar organizations create better software.

If you’ve ever fought with a website that wouldn’t work or a mobile app that made you want to hurl your phone across the

Most people who say they want to write blame time. I think it's fear—and three things nobody explains until you've spent years figuring them out yourself.

Push the throttle forward, and you pop out of the gray into blinding white and endless blue. Pilots get that reminder often. The rest of us need it too.

My family finds over a thousand shark teeth in a single beach week. Here's when we look, where we look, and the pilot's trick that made me better at it.

If there is one activity that has vastly improved my life in multiple ways, it’s journaling. I’ve mentioned this to numerous people who’ve asked me for…

I sometimes envy people who travel the world with everything they own slung over their shoulders in a backpack. How carefree must it be to…

From the deck of our oceanfront rental, I watched my boys play in the sand. “Play” may be the wrong word. It looked more like work to me. Shovels and elbows moving in...

I drive through an old neighborhood on my way to the office and back every day. It’s the highlight of my commute because…

Watch the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves.

My friend’s dad used to say that often. It sounds old-fashioned in this day and age. Most people used to…

Have you ever watched a movie that follows multiple characters over a period of time as they unknowingly weave in and out of each others lives? Then fate...

Pilots of small planes give thunderstorms a wide berth. Accidentally flying into a brewing system is feared by many aviators and I’m no exception. But in my...