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“Don’t look for luxury in watches, bracelets, villas or sailboats,” observed Clint Eastwood. “Luxury is laughter and friends, rain on your face, being loved by people, respected, having your parents alive, being able to play with your grandchildren. Luxury is what money can’t buy.” Our 13th Life Equation is this: Luxury = What money can’t…

In his book Deeper Than Words, Brother David Steindl-Rast makes the helpful observation that our beliefs are “pointers.” What he means is our beliefs point our lives in certain directions. The 12th Life Equation looks like this: Belief = Direction. If you were to write down your top 5 beliefs about yourself and how you see…

In The Lost Art of Finding our Way, John Edward Huth describes how “the horizon… is a boundary created by the curvature of the Earth and determines what you can see in the distance. If your eye is right at ground level, the nearest obstruction defines your horizon. The higher you go, the further you…

I came across a fascinating insight yesterday: hope is discipline. I thought if you then add “risk” to that insight, meaning you’re open and willing to try new ideas, projects, and endeavors and then make a decision to step forward in faith the result is a life equation. It looks like this: Hope = Discipline…

Robert Greene in his book Mastery describes the steps required to master something in our life. He writes, “You cannot have everything in the present. The road to mastery requires patience. You will have to keep your focus on five or ten years down the road, when you will reap the rewards of your efforts.…

We discover one of the best definitions of love in a letter St. Paul wrote in the Bible. He observed how, “Love is patient, love is kind… Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.” Our 8th Life Equation is a definition of love: Love = patience + kindness + truth  ——