What Matters Most

Life is beautiful, sweet and good. But sometimes it feels overwhelming, brutal and uncaring.

The circumstances and events we don't get to choose play a large role in defining our experience on this planet. But our response to those circumstances and events is FAR more impactful.

Happiness is less about the resources we have at our disposal than it is about making the most of those resources. It's possible to be enormously wealthy and incredibly unhappy. It's also possible to be incredibly poor and enormously happy. The determining factor isn't our circumstances, but how we feel about our circumstances. The story we tell ourselves matters more than our objectively measurable results.

Life is growing increasingly complicated for many. Technology, work and cultural values are changing rapidly. It's so easy to get lost, confused and overwhelmed in modern society. I don't think we need to throw our smart phones in the river and start riding horses and living in log cabins -- but I do think we could use a map to help us navigate our new reality.

That's the purpose of this blog: to be a voice of wisdom in a sea of madness, blending the best of the modern world with the lessons that can be learned from our collective past.

There is power in ethical achievement. There is power in knowing our own limits. There is wisdom in simplicity and balance. If we seek inner peace in the midst of outer chaos, however imperfectly, we will at least be facing the right direction. We will increase our self-awareness and learn for ourselves what matters most.