Drifting doesn’t feel dangerous, at least not at first. The water is calm. The sun is out. The shoreline looks familiar enough. When the current is gentle, drifting can even feel restful. But drift lo...

Life can be hard.

Not always in dramatic, headline-worthy ways, but in the steady, persistent grind of everyday living. The alarm goes off. The calendar is full. Expectations pile up. We carry stress...

Every winter on West Okoboji has its own personality. Some years the cold creeps in slowly, like a shy guest settling into the room. Other years, like this one, it charges through the door with a fier...

Every family has a few phrases that get passed down through generations—little bits of wisdom that settle deeper than we realize. One of mine came from my mother. She used to say, “Make sure the good ...

In a world that runs at full speed, we’ve become conditioned to want results right now. We track daily stock prices, quarterly earnings, instant downloads, and next-day delivery. Success has been redu...

Lessons from the Ladder

Not long ago, I asked hundreds of professionals a simple question: If you could change one thing about your career, what would it be? Their responses came from across industri...