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November 5, 2026 Good News for Humankind 🌏Your daily spark of possibility — one real milestone for change from around the world. Georgia elects Keisha Lance Bottoms as the first Black woman governor in U.S. historyKeisha Lance Bottoms, a former Atlanta mayor, won Georgia’s governor race on Nov. 3 and is set to become the first Black woman governor of any U.S. state. No Black woman had ever served as a governor, and she will also be Georgia’s first woman governor. She won in a state that had not elected a Democratic governor since 1998, with about 54% of the vote. She tied her win to her family’s roots in Georgia, which go back at least five generations, and pledged to be “a governor for everyone.” She takes office in January. Republicans controlled both chambers of the legislature going in, so how much of her plan can pass is open. But a barrier that had held in every state has come down.
Chapter 5: Passion | 5-8 Your core valueYou now may have a long list of personal values: ones you’ve declared explicitly, ones you aspire to even if they are not yet fully actualized, perhaps ones that have been hidden in shadow and you are just beginning to see more clearly. Together, they act as your compass, how you orient yourself to and navigate the terrain around you. But a compass only works because it has a true north to orient to. Without one, it is just a needle, spinning randomly around its axis. Similarly, among all your values, it can help to know the one that orients the rest, the one you steer by when all else fails. Your true north. The value that can be an anchor and beacon for you when all else fails. The other values don’t go away. They still guide you. But your core value is the one that sits above the others, your ultimate touchstone. You can find your core value by simply inquiring honestly into what you embody and what you aspire to embody above all else. Ask yourself: Which value do you return to again and again, even when it costs you? If you could spend the rest of your life in service to one flavor of love, what would it be? This is not an intellectual exercise. You will feel the right one in your gut. A sense of peace. A sense of knowing. A sense of things falling into place. If you don’t feel that, you don’t have it yet. But when you do find it, you have the simplest, most reliable tool for navigating pretty much any situation in your life. If your true north is kindness, you can take a few deep breaths and simply ask: What is kindness asking of me right now? If your true north is courage, you can simply ask: What wisdom does courage have for me in this situation? When our chaotic, ambiguous world becomes so overwhelming that you can no longer find your way, the utter simplicity of your true north can point the way. ​ This is an excerpt from my upcoming book The Antihero's Journey: From Burnout to Real Contribution in Polycrisis Times. To read other excerpts, go here.
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