You have a decent job, a family, and a house with a nice lawn and a few weekends away every year. Your résumé reads like stability. Your Instagram looks like joy. On paper, you’re living the dream. So why does it feel like something’s rotting just beneath the surface? Why do you wake up with…
In the last post, I shared a simple question: On a normal Tuesday morning, do you enjoy being in your own life? It’s a hard question to dodge. The Tuesday Morning Test strips away illusion and asks whether the life we’ve built is a life that fills us with meaning and purpose. It doesn’t measure…
We tend to think of life as something we survive, optimize, or escape from… but a better metaphor is a garden. Not the wild chaos of nature untouched, and not the sterile geometry of a spreadsheet, but something living, cultivated, and deeply personal. Something we shape, and that shapes us. Our life is a garden.…