I am a registered therapist, and for nearly thirty years my work has been listening to people describe the life they have and the life they wish they had.

I have lived a full life of my own, too. I have jumped out of airplanes, flown with the Snowbirds, served as a police auxiliary officer, and spent years travelling across Canada as a publisher of destination guides. I have made my share of mistakes along the way, some of them expensive. They are in the book next to the wins, because a life well-lived is not a life without failures.

Then I started asking everyone the same question: if you had five minutes with your 25-year-old self, what would you say? I have now put it to 12,000 people, from retired schoolteachers to Nobel laureates. The answers became the Wisdom Harvest, and the Wisdom Harvest became A Life Well-Lived.

A life well-lived is a life lived on purpose.

I live in London, Ontario.