Reflecting on the passing year, I am reminded of one paradox in life: to have a lot of good, we must experience some bad moments, too.

This past year was an exceptionally challenging one.

The other day, someone on Quora asked, “I don’t know what really my dream is. What should I do?”

You should find it, of course.

Do you know what your dream is?

Sometime between the fifth and third centuries before the birth of Christ, working from each other’s writings, historians Herodotus and Callimachus of Cyrene conjured a list of seven wonders of the world. Although only one world wonder has survived, the Great Pyramid at Giza, the references to this list have endured to this day.

One day, a teacher at an elementary school asked her students to list all seven wonders, but one surprised everyone.

I’ve been silent for a few weeks because I’ve been grieving. A very dear friend of mine died by suicide at the end of August, only a week after his 60th birthday.

As you can imagine, it came as a shock.

There’s a quote I saw once, “It’s not about having more money, but living life on your own terms.”

For you and I, and any aspiring entrepreneur, this is precisely why we let go of the false stability of the corporate world only to find ourselves navigating the turbulent and uncertain waters of entrepreneurship. This is why we spend our days at co-working spaces and feed our caffeine addictions.

We want the freedom to call the shots.

But this freedom isn’t all, it also isn’t enough.

Paris and Helena. Achilles and Patroclus. Tristan and Isolde. Alexander and Hephaestion. Anthony and Cleopatra. Hadrian and Antinous. Romeo and Juliet. Gertrude and Alice. Diego and Frida.

We’re all familiar with the lore of romantic love: the mythical union of two beings whose love and commitment to each other are both unconditional and endless.

Most of us have sought to create such a narrative in our lives, too.

Yet, very few “real-life” stories have all the qualities of an epic love story.

Enter Trevor and Misha.

It's mid-July. So let's talk about your New Year's resolutions.

What has become of them?

Have you achieved them or have they gone to die in some forgotten drawer inside your mind?

The night was dark and seemingly peaceful, until we heard … explosion! screams!

I was a five-year-old boy at home in Montenegro and I had no idea what was happening. My siblings and I ran seeking a hug and safety from our grandmas, without even realizing the extent of fear they were feeling, not knowing what to do themselves nor how to protect us.

It was one of the many nights that threatened our safety during the civil wars in the Former Yugoslavia. This memory is now over 25 years old, but it was the moment that sparked the first desire to seek a better life.

A life I have discovered in America.

Meet Jimmy Choi who just returned to another season of the American Ninja Warrior TV show and has a powerful lesson to teach us: Get out there and do your best.

The highly-publicized deaths by suicide of the legends Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain last week brought this leading cause of death into the forefront.

It also made me decide to share a bit of my own story.

My grandma would have been 91 today. She raised me and taught me about life, and love, and did so through her words and example.

She passed away over 17 years ago. And by each passing year, I realize even more what an incredible person she was, and her lessons and wisdom ring truer than true.

People often ask me, What is a coach and what does a coach do? What’s the difference between a coach and a therapist? How can someone benefit from having a coach?

It was my 31st birthday yesterday so in addition to eating cake and mini eclairs (my favorites!), I also spent some time thinking about key lessons I’ve learned over the years. It all started with reflecting on the past year but then morphed into 31 lessons—one for each year of my life.

As my Facebook feed populated with posts about giving things up for Lent—from chocolate to Facebook itself—I wondered:

What if we didn’t give things up, but instead gave things away?

As we wrap up another Valentine’s Day, I am want to ask you:

What does love really mean to you every other day of the year?

Is your love limited to the romantic kind, or are you basking in the richness of love that can be found within and all around us?

It all begins with an idea.