This week, I am using poetry as a springboard for reflections. And that is really out of character for me. I am NOT a big consumer of poetry. But I am a huge admirer of words.

This week, I want to reflect a bit on problems. Our relationship with them and what they represent amidst the journey of our lives.

Ok. After a few weeks of love and celebration, I am going deeper on something a bit more "complicated."

This week, I am in a different mindset. Honoring my wife Jessica's birthday on Tuesday happily served as a much-needed catalyst away from all the crises, bad news, friction, division, and drama surrounding this past year.

As you know, I often talk about the importance of TIME on these pages. I have come to believe, with the deepest of convictions, that your time horizon dictates the quality of your outcomes when you make decisions.

I have written many times about one of my core beliefs: we are what we eat eats. Meaning, the food we put into our bodies and what that food has been fed (its diet, its fertilizer, its pesticides, its care in general, etc) determines a large part of our own health.

Talking about love is easy. Instead, let me ask a more difficult question: can you hate something that you love?

Most of you are, of course, aware of the fact that tonight Tampa Bay Buccaneers will "host" the Kansas City Chiefs in the 55th edition of the Super Bowl.

often refer to that as “innerizing” and “otherizing,” meaning: do you generally believe that what happens to you is a result of your own actions or the actions of others?

In last week's blog, I referenced "the paradox of choice." I first learned of this particular phrase while reading the book with the same title by Professor Barry Schwartz of Swarthmore College and again in his now-famous 2005 TED talk that has been seen by over 15 million people.

What is truth? Who decides what is true? How can there be such wide interpretations of the same course of events?

We so desperately need a better conversation that is about ideas, not personal attacks. We deserve news stories that are pursuing the real truth, however uncomfortable it may be, rather than the incessant soundbites that are repeated with no substantiation.

As you know from reading these newsletters, I am rather obsessed with the notion of RESPONSIBILITY and the fact that, sadly, too many public conversations are centered around someone else's responsibility.

Never in my life have I put more weight into wishing humanity a Happier New Year. And never have I wanted an existing year to leave us sooner.

I want to talk about trust. I don't think we talk about it enough, and I fear that we are starting to lose our natural human instinct to assume innocence and happily extend trust.

This week, I want to talk about the fallacy of certainty. My partner Tony Tjan often says: "Confidence is great when you are right, but it's a big problem when you are wrong."

I have been thinking a lot lately about immunity. What is it? Can we improve it? Is it like a muscle that can be practiced? Or is it more genetic and, therefore, out of the scope of our control?

Thanksgiving is my favorite American holiday. I think many of you would agree. It's a weekend in our lives where our collective energies are focused on the same idea.

Ok. This week you might not like me. Or, at least, not the message. Like truth itself, it tends to tell us something we don't want to hear.

I believe, quite passionately, that we need healing more than anything. First, we need to heal from this pandemic. Find a way through it – quickly.