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Fear tells us that pain is bad. It tells us to run away from pain. But pain tells us private truths. Pain teaches us unique lessons. Lessons we can only learn by facing pain and working through it. If we obey every fear, we will never hear the lessons in our pain.

We spend so much of our lives searching for where and how to find fulfillment. Constantly scanning the horizon for where to sail that will bring us into that comforting harbor.

People who set sail in search of fulfillment outside themselves get lost at sea. That is a voyage without a shore.

“You vs You” might sound like a good mindset, but it creates unnecessary internal conflict.

The only acceptable answer to fear is action. Where fear casts its shadow, action must shine its light. Inaction allows the shadow of fear to infect and spread. Action is the antidote to fear’s poison. Action is the light that pushes back the darkness fear needs to survive. When you find yourself...

Disciplined people make decisions. Confident people make consequential decisions.

Where your power ends, so does your freedom. Increasing your power expands your freedom. Discipline expands your freedom because it increases your power.

My wife and I are raising two kids—one boy and one girl. Beyond the basics of keeping them alive and healthy, our chief responsibility is to prepare them to care for themselves. Because one day, they will leave the structured freedom we provide and enter the environment of full freedom. Adults like...

What does integrity have to do with freedom? Everything. But not how you might think.