One of my favorite quotes of all time is the Serenity Prayer, written by Reinhold Niebuhr. “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.” Identifying the difference is often the biggest part of the battle for me. At…

Apple Inc. reported strong quarterly results on Jan. 27, which showed broad-based strength across product categories and geographies. Apple shares had 24 Buy recommendations, 4 Hold ratings, and 1 Sell rating ahead of its quarterly results, according to data compiled by TipRanks. The lone bearish recommendation was from New Street Research analyst Pierre Ferragu, who went…

Starting with an identity theft nightmare that also served as a wake-up call in 2015, my family and I have been on an intense mission to simplify our lives. We sold our home and two acres of land, let go of about 90% of our physical possessions, paid off all our debt, and removed everything…

One of the most common sources of difficulty for most of us is frustration—we can get frustrated with the smallest things throughout the day. And yet, becoming aware of how often we’re frustrated doesn’t quite solve the problem. Someone pointing out that you’re frustrated only makes you more irritated. How can we let go of…

Media reports this week that two of the Federal Reserve’s 12 regional bank presidents were active traders has some of the central bank’s most vocal critics questioning the rules that allowed them to engage in the transactions in the first place. Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan and Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren made frequent or…

Commentary I’ve put myself in a precarious position early in my career. At 20 years old, several publications have afforded me the platform to have a voice in the national conversation—not because I’m an expert of any sort, but because they recognized the importance of broadening the generational dialogue. For this I’m hugely grateful, but…

Ten years have shown that living with young Mia—who has Down syndrome—was hardly the burden some predicted. Her family, the Armstrongs, can attest to that. The 10-year-old, now a model living in California, also became an advocate for others with disabilities. After appearing in a Walgreens Red Nose Day campaign in 2017, Mia was flooded with modeling…

Sometimes a patient needs to heal an entire lifetime. Take, for example, the all too typical patient that I see at the clinic: in their 60s, overweight, struggling with high blood pressure, and seeking acupuncture for joint pain. Upon consultation, I listen to the story of a lifetime of poor choices that include eating the…

BEIJING—Chinese leader Xi Jinping will attend a U.S.-led climate change summit on Thursday at the invitation of President Joe Biden, in the first meeting between the two leaders since the advent of the new U.S. administration. Biden has invited dozens of world leaders to join the two-day virtual summit starting on Thursday, after bringing the…

In screenplay and novel writing, the inciting incident is the event that gets the story rolling. It’s the action or decision that introduces the problem that the story’s main character must overcome. In “Jerry Maguire,” it’s the moment that Jerry writes his manifesto about the need to put people first in the sports agency business….