Do I really need another coffee mug? This T-shirt? Another wine glass to wedge into the cupboard? Yes, you probably do.

Different is built into our system in a way that should encourage each of us.

Maybe you can name a handful of things that would make you happy. But stay with the creative process long enough to consider all the angles.

Finding value in a tradition that has gone before and aspiring to connect with it can provide a very different way to live.

NEW ZEALAND? TENNESSEE? HERE'S HOW TO FIGURE OUT WHAT'S BEST FOR YOU, regardless of the standard "wisdom.""

CONVICTIONS ARE CRITICAL FOR SETTING A COURSE IN LIFE. It’s simply not good enough to “Do Different” just for the sake of being different.

If simply “going for it” scares you, take heart. Children do it all the time when they create, and the results are magical.

It's about life apart from usual.

NOTHING IN LIFE STAYS STILL. From the earth orbiting the sun to a car passing you on the Interstate, everything is moving in some...

Doing things with Mom and Dad creates life-long happy memories of your child’s growing-up years.

Although there is ease and predictability on the "gentleman's walkway," the adventure of life lies beyond.

Different absolutely can start at "retirement age." And if you're younger, you can make a lifestyle of doing Different.

The various parts of our lives are so integrated that you can’t change one without affecting the other. Life is one whole organism.

In a world fragmented by target marketing, niche selling, and assorted ways of “drilling down,” we need to put together our own whole views

Sometimes doing Different can mean grabbing hold of things other people ignore or disdain and discovering a great opportunity as a result.

I suspect more than any other one thing, our American love affair with ease is the greatest obstacle to having a purposeful, Different life.

On the way to Different, it's natural to recoil from the idea of doing something "not normal," but what if there's another 'normal'?

Perhaps the most difficult obstacle to a new vision for life is that getting started has to take place in the middle of the mundane.

It is not part of God’s equation that we limit the number of mouths to feed. For the most part, it’s simply our preference for ease.

These days, discovering your essential purpose is called your “why.” Most success and dream-planning experts tell their followers to have...