You have a story you tell yourself about your life — whether you realize it or not.

A trend in the stories that people with meaningful lives tell themselves -  redemption stories: the tellers move from suffering to salvation — they experience a negative event followed by a positive e...

• There is only one thing that causes unhappiness. It's attachment. Attachments to a specific person, place, time, job or a lifestyle.
• Attachments are what make it so hard to accept change. Once we have them, we don't want to let go. We become slaves to maintaining the status quo.

When leaders hesitate to make a decision, the story they tell themselves is that they don’t have enough information to act on. But that is rarely the case.

Leaders pull information from a variety of sources in order to make their decisions. In addition to pondering their own thoughts and ...