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“Why is improvement hard? Part of the issue is everyone wants to improve, but nobody wants to destroy. Change often requires destruction. Or, at least, unlearning. Let’s call it gentle elimination. You may have to leave little habits, update current beliefs, eliminate comfortable patterns. When you want better outcomes, your daily norms may need toContinue reading “Self Destruction”

“The purpose of life is not to be happy at all. It is to be useful, to be honorable. It is to be compassionate. It is to matter, to have it make some difference that you lived.” -Leo Rosten “The world will offer you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were madeContinue reading “Work For Comfort”

“All art is quite useless.” -Oscar Wilde The point of making art is to make art. Art For Art’s Sake. That is the best kind, the only kind. For more inspiration, read Billy Oppenheimer’s “The Point.”

How many times have you heard someone sayIf I had his money I’d do things my wayHmm, but little they knowHmm, it’s so hard to findOne rich man in ten with a satisfied mind Hmm, once I was wading in fortune and fameEverything that I dreamed of to get a start in life’s gameBut suddenlyContinue reading “A Satisfied Mind”

“What is the ONE thing you could do right now such that by doing it, everything else would be easier or unnecessary?” -Gary Keller Gary Keller’s advice above is great, but don’t let it paralyze you from starting. Just pick a task, any task, and go COMPLETE it. Do this again and again. Day inContinue reading ““What’s My One Thing?””

“There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality. We think that there is something hiding reality and that this must be destroyed before reality is gained. How ridiculous! A day will dawn when you will laugh at all your past efforts. That which will beContinue reading “Reality”

“Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.” -Joyce Meyer “Let’s go.”“We can’t.”“Why not?”“We’re waiting for Godot.” -Samuel Beckett “Day after day, as we wait for the things we desire, we become different people. In the act of waiting, we become who we are. Waiting points toContinue reading “On Waiting Well”

“Why do we love our writing teachers so much? Why, years later, do we think of them with such gratitude? I think it’s because they come along when we need them most, when we are young and vulnerable and are tentatively approaching this craft that our culture doesn’t have much respect for, but which weContinue reading “Those Who Can Do, Also Teach”

“Reinvention is a verb-created phenomenon. You don’t experience a reinvention. You reinvent. You don’t think your way into a new life. You don’t manifest it into reality. You don’t dream it. You act it into reality.” -Sahil Bloom “You cannot think your way into a new life; you have to build your way into it.Continue reading “Try Out The New Thing”

“You cannot sell to someone unless you know who they are and what they want.” -Turney Duff My friend Turney tells a great story on IG about selling. You can find it Here. And be sure to check out all his posts. They are chock full of phenomenal advice, especially for a young person tryingContinue reading “Selling Sand In The Desert”