From Mawi Asgedom · Author of Of Beetles and Angels
What makes you come alive?
Your Sunlight is the activities, people, and places that energize you, bring you joy, and power you up. This is where you find yours — every day.
Your Sunlight is the activities, people, and places that energize you, bring you joy, and power you up. This is where you find yours — every day.
Just like a plant requires sunlight to create energy, humans require consistent Sunlight to grow and thrive. — Find Your Sunlight
In our workshops, people write their Sunlight on Post-it notes — one activity per note. Every wall ends up different. Every wall has the same four sources.
"paint bad art"
Making things — cooking, music, writing, building, gardening.
"coffee, no phones"
The people who fill you up — and real time with them.
"a park I've never seen"
Doing and exploring — travel, sports, nature, novelty.
"fifteen quiet minutes"
Rest and renewal — stillness, movement, sleep, prayer.
Five minutes. A baseline score across the four sources of Sunlight, so you can see where you stand today and track your growth as you go. Free, because Sunlight should be easy to reach.
Your results arrive instantly, with one suggestion for more Sunlight this week.
Mawi Asgedom escaped a refugee camp, earned a scholarship to Harvard, and spent twenty years in Turbo mode — until his health forced a better question. Find Your Sunlight is the answer: a practical guide to the daily light that keeps you going.
A downloadable PDF that helps you apply everything in the book — on your own or with a group. Free, because Sunlight should be easy to reach.
We'll send the workbook and nothing else, unless you also join the Sunlight Note below.
The Sunlight Gallery Walk works with five people or three hundred — a family at the kitchen table, a staff meeting, a whole district. Post-it notes, four signs, twenty minutes. The full script is in the book; get the wall signs, templates, and facilitation guide here.
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A story, a question, and one way to find your Sunlight this week — written by Mawi, read in under two minutes. This is the Sunlight community's front porch.
Mawi Asgedom was born in Tigray, Ethiopia, survived a refugee camp in Sudan, and arrived in America speaking no English. With the help of mentors and a relentless work ethic he calls Turbo, he earned a scholarship to Harvard, self-published his memoir Of Beetles and Angels out of his car — before Little, Brown acquired it and Oprah called — and built Mawi Learning, which trained over a million students before it was acquired by ACT.
Then his own light went out, and his skin was the first to say so. Find Your Sunlight is what he learned on the way back: that you can't unlock anything when your own light has gone out — and that the light is closer than you think.
He lives outside Chicago with his wife and four kids, usually coaching somebody's team. More at mawi.com →
— Mawi
Keynotes and Sunlight workshops for schools, companies, and teams — plus Charter bulk orders that put the book in every hand this fall.
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