“Happiness,” Dr. William H. Sheldon wrote, “is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without reservation or regret.” The practical way we do that is through commitments—through making maximal commitments to things we really care about and then serving them in a wholehearted way. The core challenges of the second-mountain life are found in the questions, How do I choose my commitments? How do I decide what is the right commitment for me? How do I serve my commitments once they have been chosen? How do I blend my commitments so that together they merge into a
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