The older I get the more I understand that truth tends to be better shown than spoken, though it goes without saying that words still have their place. The power of action is greater than words. For instance, recently a man talked my ear off...
What I’m Afraid Of
Lately things have felt different for me in my life. I think I’m struggling with depression again, as if...
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Adopt the Challenge Mindset
Ever heard of a game called SuperBetter? Game designer and researcher Jane McGonigal is the esteemed inventor...
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That Horrible Word: Busy
The age old dilemma is summarized best with these simple words: “What do I do now?” Lately I’ve been...
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Motivation is hard for some people. Some folks struggle to get out of bed in the morning let alone get their kids to daycare, go to work, work through their lunch-break in order to meet with a tough client, pick the kids up on the way home...
Photo credit: Rachel Yan Lately I’ve been reading a lot of books focused on self-improvement. It’s put me in this odd state of being where I go about life as I normally do but find myself caught in deep contemplation without...
Recently, I finished reading a book by Gretchen Rubin on habits called, “Better Than Before”. It was a challenging read, if only because it caused me to ponder ceaselessly about myself, and I find the task of self-knowledge to be a...
It’s been almost two months since I wrote for my website. This may be because the last few things I’ve written have had some severe negative influences, especially the last article in which I talk about my history of self-harm. So I...
When I was a teenager, there was a period in time that I physically harmed myself. I was never extreme as one might think, since even the words self-harm conjure up a thousand horrors, but I got into the habit of getting depressed, purposefully...
This is a loaded article. ‘Why I write’ is the sort of thing that could set me off into a diatribe of such self-focused, self-congratulatory, ego-maniacal deliberation that I wake up two days later in a daze like I was drunk on...
Deep down I can be a real asshole. This is no revelation to some of you, I’m sure. I remember an event when I was nineteen years old. To put some context: nineteen years old, I was living at my parents place. I never graduated with my...