Plus, tennis legend Novak Djokovic on the internal work of mastery.

Welcome to Weekly Wisdom. Every Thursday, we send you a thoughtful piece of wisdom designed to help you live a life of purpose. If you were forwarded this message, you can sign up to receive the free weekly email here.

I have a question for you.

What if a single idea, or question, or moment of pause could meet you every morning? 

I’ve been delivering this to your inbox every Thursday for a while now. And the impact has been beautiful. Hundreds of thousands of readers just like you open this every single week. And many reach out and tell me how helpful it is.

I’ve read about readers facing the toughest challenges in their lives, using this newsletter as an anchor to keep them grounded.

I’ve seen firsthand how readers take that first, second, maybe even 1,000th step toward living a life of purpose.

But as I’ve been mentioning for a few weeks now, living a life of intention is a daily practice.

Intention isn’t something we visit once a week; it’s something that finds us in the middle of our mornings, before our meetings, inside our mess.

Consider this an invitation to notice the ways intention is already waiting for you every day. Because wisdom doesn’t just live in the words you read here. It lives in the rhythm you create out there. 

My team and I have been reflecting on rituals as well – small daily steps that shape how we move through the world. And we’ve been asking ourselves: if the world is noisy every day, why shouldn’t wisdom show up every day too?

That’s why we’re considering shifting from a once-a-week email to something more frequent…maybe even daily.

But as always, your voice matters. How can this wisdom show up better for you, not as a one-time drop in your inbox, but as a rhythm, a ritual, a steady practice?

Try This: I want you to take out a notebook, or open a new note on your device and start making a list of the things that bring you calm each and every day. What are the small things that make a big difference? The rituals, the practices – any and everything that makes you feel calm, joyful, and able to take on your day.

As we strive for daily rituals and take small steps on the path to large-scale growth, I’m absolutely thrilled to share this week’s podcast conversation with you, featuring a guest who knows a thing or two about this stuff: tennis legend Novak Djokovic. Novak returns to share key experiences from his journey to the summit of the tennis world, and opens up about his lifelong struggle with the feeling that he was never “enough.” Novak’s perspective on this feeling, which both helped and hindered him since childhood, is invaluable. 

In our talk, Novak reflects on how learning to manage self-doubt helped him to maintain balance, discipline, and resilience while navigating major wins and major losses on one of the world’s biggest athletic stages. From his practices of journaling and visualization, to learning how to meet extremely high-pressure moments from a place of surrender, Novak’s holistic approach to his craft and career shows us that the real work of success, in any field, is internal. This is a profoundly grounding and eye-opening conversation for anyone on a path to mastery or peak performance, as well as anyone looking to implement a healthier, more generous approach to their own experience of self-doubt and failure. 

Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

I challenge you to look at your list from above, the list of things that bring you calm every day, the rituals and practices that make you feel calm, joyful, and able to take on your day.

What’s missing from this list? What do you need to be adding to this list each day that will make your life happier? More intentional? I want to hear it. Reply to this email right now and tell me the things you need more of, every day. I’ll use your responses to be more intentional about what I write here.

Last week, I challenged you to pick somebody important to you and ask them a question you still don’t know the answer to.

Reader Joy wrote,

I love the simplicity and enchantment of this question, Joy. And yet the answers can be so big. What someone remembers from childhood often reveals what mattered most to them, the feelings, moments, or experiences that helped shape who they became. Asking is like getting a key to someone’s story.

Reader Donna wrote,

Donna, I can see from your question that you’re looking past all the busy “to-do’s” of life and paying attention to the why, to how he’s really feeling beneath it all, and what this season of change means to him. It’s a reminder that sometimes the most loving thing we can do is pause and ask the human question in the middle of all the logistics.