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"If you could live forever, would you spend the rest of eternity doing everything? Hang gliding? Mountain climbing without a rope? Or cloistered in a room with books, afraid to take any risks?"

Dan Wooldridge shares the inspiring story of Daniel Nava, the best Boston Red Sox minor leaguer you've never heard of. It's a true story of perseverance and courage in the pursuit of a dream.

Does having a sense of purpose in our work really motivate us to higher performance? Dan Wooldridge calls our attention to research that demonstrates that it really does.

Glenn McMahan's misfortune in Argentina leads him to make extraordinary observations on why work can be so soulless and deadening. He also shares how to find hope and meaning in the midst of the drudgery.

Our work can seem like trivial toil and we wonder about whether we will do anything that truly makes a difference.

Why do companies die? Dan Wooldridge raises the question and points to an answer at the fundamental core of a business

Vision and planning are first steps in business thinking and action planning. But Dan Wooldridge wonders if they should be when considered from a biblical perspective.

Solomon West explores how Jesus framed his work through a potent and surprising mission statement (hint: it doesn't begin and end with a guy in the end zone waving a John 3:16 poster).

Recently, Glenn McMahan has caught himself complaining about potholed roads as he drove in a nice car past a man pulling a heavy cart by hand...about the heat as he sat in an air-conditioned office...about the falling value of the dollar as he ate a great meal. That sounds uncomfortably familiar

Dan Wooldridge notes that all our work should be crafted to aim high and strive to change the world, a little bit at a time.

Dan Wooldridge reflects on George Gilder's Soul of Silicon essay. Good parenting is the ultimate entrepreneurial act and the most crucial process of a healthy economy.

Even in the middle of a major economic downturn, most of us, says Glenn McMahan, "enjoy unprecedented wealth and a quality of life that the rest of the world envies. But the statistics show that a lot of people are also tired in their souls."

If you’re in a job transition—whatever the reason—before polishing and upload your resume, take a deep breath and consider these ten principles on career change from the leadership strategist and executive coach Stephen G. Payne.

"What am I trying to say with my life and work?" Bradley J. Moore asks. "If I were to write a book that distilled my entire mission and mad ramblings into one word, could I do it? What would that one word be?"