We use the word someday as if it belongs on a calendar.
Someday we will take the trip. Someday we will slow down. Someday we will repair the relationship, take better care of ourselves, start the work that matters, or tell the people we love what they mean to us.
Someday feels responsible because ...
There was a season of my life when the outside looked like momentum and the inside felt like pressure.
I was achieving. Producing. Moving fast enough that I did not have to ask whether I was moving in the right direction. For a while, busyness can protect us from that question. A full calendar give...
I’ve been thinking about how honest a calendar can be.
It does not care what we say matters. It records what receives our time. The meetings we keep. The people we make room for. The health we postpone. The work that follows us home. The conversations we keep meaning to have.
Most of us imagine th...
On Monday, I had one of those experiences I will never forget. I had the opportunity to sit on stage with Gary Keller at Mega Camp’s CEO Summit and talk about The 10-Year Letter in front of thousands of people. Gary also wrote the foreword to the book, which made the moment even more meaningful. Wha...
Your future self already knows what matters. The question is whether you will listen.
There is a story Matthew McConaughey once shared that has stayed with me for years. Someone asked who his hero was, and his answer never changed. It was himself, ten years in the future. He never expected to ful...
You’ve been circling this for a while.
There’s a moment that happens when someone starts this process. It’s quiet. No one else sees it. They sit down, open a blank page, and realize something: they’ve spent a lot of time thinking about what they should do, but not much time getting clear on what th...
For years I’ve asked people a simple question.
Where will you be in ten years?
Not your next quarterly goal, and not the short-term plan you hope works out over the next few months. I’m talking about the life you are intentionally building. The one you want to wake up to. The one that reflects who...
There is a quiet danger that almost everyone lives with, and most people never recognize it. It is the danger of a short horizon.
Short-term thinking fills your calendar. It keeps you busy responding to the next email, the next meeting, the next obligation sitting in front of you. From the outside ...
I’ve been thinking about this quietly over the last few weeks. It keeps coming back to me during ordinary moments, when nothing in particular is happening and there’s space to notice how life is actually being lived.
What if the version of you ten years from now followed you around for a month.
Th...
Clarity often reveals itself when you give yourself permission to pause and look again with fresh eyes. Not because something was missing the first time, but because you have grown since then.
Recently, my son and I ran two half marathons in 28 days. The first run carried excitement and discovery. ...
Living awake is not something reserved for a later chapter of life. It begins the moment you start noticing how you are choosing today. Awareness creates momentum. When you slow down just enough to recognize what you are already living into, clarity naturally follows.
The 10-Year Letter is rooted
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Some moments in life quietly invite us to choose with intention. They don’t demand clarity all at once. They simply offer an opportunity to be present and decide how fully we want to engage.
This weekend, I experienced one of those moments.
I was in Santa Barbara, standing along the track at Westm...
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