“Of all the values Billye holds, integrity is tops. “That’s all you’ve got in the end,” she told me once. She’s right, too. If you don’t respect yourself, you cannot maintain your confidence, regardless of how well you follow all...

“When it comes to finding reasons to be grateful—I think of them as avenues of appreciation—it helps to follow a practice I call the POET approach, which stands for People, Opportunities, Experiences, and Things. I put People first because taking...

“According to Allan Luks, researcher and author of The Healing Power of Doing Good, Jon’s experience is quite common. In his research, Luks studied thousands of volunteers and discovered that they achieved a “helper’s high” that was very similar to...