Harvard Professor of happiness, Arthur Brooks, turns the tables on the idea of the “bucket list” as a way of achieving satisfaction, showing us where real joy and contentment are far more likely to be found, in the everyday investments of faith, deep relationships, meaningful work, and love....

I used to wake up late on a Sunday, and go to the nearest bar around noon. I was grabbing a drink, I was hanging out for the game, I was eating lunch. I was staying longer for the afternoon game. I was running to mass really quick at night, squeezing it in, then getting back home and watching more...

Have you ever felt unsettled in yourself? You walk into a room and it's like you lose yourself? Or maybe it's more a state of being--you feel like you're always looking for a place, person, job, or context to figure out this longing of who you are and what you offer? In this video, we walk through...

I am so miserable and tired of the monotony of life. Join the club. We will all inevitably ask, what is my purpose? What does it all mean? All of us at some point will suffer from the want of meaning or purpose in our lives. Without it, we drift away from ourselves and everyone else, living in a...

Who am I in the mind if God? You were an idea in the mind of God long before the universe existed. What is my identity? How do I find my self worth, and where does it come from? Finding my worth in the mind of God. Whether you believe in God or not, just imagine that you were and idea in the mind...

Wherever you go… you’re still there. Most of us don’t realize how much of our lives are built around trying to escape ourselves. We stay busy. We stay entertained. We stay scrolling, watching, working, planning, talking — anything to avoid being alone in the quiet with our own thoughts. Because...

My wife is employed in the disaster-relief sector of the international NGO space. She and her colleagues serve people who find themselves amid sudden need during unforeseen disasters. Recently, my wife’s work took her to the Canadian Prairies, a significant segment of which have been ravaged this...

When was the last time you experienced loneliness? Do you recall the feeling? The enveloping ache and the swarm of emotions—the sadness, the anxiousness, the uncertainty, the smallness, the shame, even—that the experience entailed? Terrible, wasn’t it? Do you recall what it was like to feel “on the...

The other day I was chatting with a friend over hot tea, discussing a change she was noticing in her significant other. His problems all seemed to boil down to low self-esteem, and she said, “I’m actually sort of surprised he’s insecure. I’ve always perceived him as being super-confident because...