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Training wheels to turn: You are naturally bad at thinking

How is it that the thing we rely on most we never train?

If you want a guaranteed shit lyfe, make your existence big.

Knowing that we’re nothing and in the grand scheme of things will disappear into our own nothing, frees us. It’s actually the ultimate freedom.

You don’t have the answers for the universe… in fact, maybe forget the universe for awhile because you’re barely solving your own life.

And this is the subtle art of getting ahead.

We’re termites… In a good way.

Where we err big time is we forget we can’t see reality. As far as you’re concerned there is no reality– what you’re seeing is your personality, projected onto everything 24/7.

That’s not life, it’s you.

But we walk around, living in our own genres and then telling others how it is or ought to be. The craziest part? It never occurs to us to try to change the lens because it’s not advertised.

Here it is:

You’re Bad at Thinking.

I mean, how can you not be? You weren’t properly trained. You have no systems in place and right now your go-to method for decision making is memory and mood. The historically proven to be most inaccurate delusional system.

We need a better way.

And that starts with self awareness– “but I know myself.” Sure you do.

But what you know is useless, like your middle school best friend– yeah, black is your favorite color but I wouldn’t call that understanding.

You need to know what situations bring out your inner idiot, where do you go full-dumbo? Each of us has blind spots, you need to see yours.

I’ve been using mbti, not the bs website either. Specifically: https://www.objectivepersonalitysystem.com/

When I got typed it became easier to see the faulty default system for my thinking. It wasn’t for everything, but my blind spots were definitely fcking me up.

My advice to you– and this is only if you want a fun, engaging, and fulfilling life. Find a system that actually shows you where you’re messed up and provides some type of map to get you out of there.

We need to grease the gears to better turn the mind… that was stupid. Point is, be a better thinker by getting new input.

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Everything Has Its Suck

Everything sucks… sometimes.

As I’ve gotten disappointed (the adult synonym for older), I’ve come to understand that life is a game of trade.

Like the whole– for every action there is a reaction, it just comes down to what you’ll tit for tat. What you’re willing to trade in return for the thing you want.

Example: You want to be some type of entrepreneur, let’s say it’s the suited up biznus kind, but you hate sales and refuse to make the daily calls.

If your mom didn’t already break it to you, you’re not on your way to #FCKa9-5.

See, in todays opportune but ultra competitive markets, you can’t kinda do something. You’re going to have to semi-enjoy the pain that comes from your dream. This is the necessary competitive advantage to win.

So, for this next year free yourself of that fruitless search for purpose.

Instead, look at the things you wouldn’t mind sucking at, and keep going. Look at the things you find fulfilling, especially during the suck.

What things have you losing track of time?

Besides cry, what did you do as a child?

What types of activities engage you most?

Revisit them. Start with the suck in mind.

What suck do you enjoy? Training? Maybe it’s preparing a speech, conquering the blank page, building robots, idk.

But find your suck, and live a life that doesn’t.

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Re-lyfed: How I’m Resetting For Good

Well, it was actually way simpler than I thought.

Turns out– it had nothing to do with trying to change, more so figuring out what’s important and then leaving what isn’t.

2022 is around the block– what do you want to do differently?

I was really struggling these past months, the old restless thought patterns came back and I had urges of starting over and leaving everything I’ve worked for behind.

This isn’t anything new for me, but this time it felt nearly impossible to combat.

And then yesterday I suddenly got over it.

I realized something, life is a game. If you focus on the shitty negative aspects– you’re sure to lose. I was sitting here taking everything seriously and spiraling downward, all because I was identifying with my negative thoughts (a big no- no).

Feel what you feel, but identify with something better. Something that can pull you out when the storm throws you overboard.

It’s that simple.

You’ll still feel like garbage and have bad day, but if you choose the right thing they won’t last.

That’s key.

It’s not just identity, it’s choice.

I choose to identify with the higher– the better version of me that plays through obstacles and moves on quick.

That said, let’s see how I can remake my entire existence in the span of a year. 2022 will be my craziest, most fun year yet.

Wanna do it with me?

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You’re Not Playing on Your Team

It took me awhile to see this.

And now that I do I’m not sure how to fix it, but somewhere along the way– we drew lines. There was a split in consciousness.

Something tells me that the only way to resolve this issue is to bring it all out to the surface– everything.

The human being is dual natured.

Everyday we choose between different parts of ourselves. When you do hard shit– you let the best self drive and when you sit there and rot… well, you’re killing yourself.

Maybe the split happens because of socialization or maybe it’s a defense mechanism. I.E. you know that certain personality traits are unacceptable so you hide them, but as soon as you reach adulthood they crave an outlet.

A better way to look at depression is disconnection.

You are disconnected from yourself– your deeper, real, self.

The solution? You have to play for the same team.

First, you’ll have to re-get to know yourself. What does this other self want? What are their goals, opinions, likes and dislikes? What do they stand for and how should they be expressed?

Then you’ll want to find ways to bring it to the surface, in a healthy way of course.

You need a peace treaty.

The only way to come to terms with your inner self is to understand them, and figure out where you both agree.

That way, you can both go for the same goals.

In this way– you become whole.

If this sounds abstract, poetic, or even absurd– understand this is a nicer way of describing most peoples self hate. The people who while ambitious, go home and sit in front of the TV.

Or the people who have a hard time setting boundaries or being alone.

It applies to all of us.

So forget judging it, work with it.

Get on your own team.

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Write Your Fool: How To Get Ahead In Life

Your ability to see reality clearly is what will determine the amount of success you create. Most people– they can’t see beyond themselves.

That’s what this pandemic has shown all of us.

Massive fear.

From each other, from control, from death.

Everyone is afraid.

And we imagine that our fears are the truth. We imagine the proof we’ve seen is scientific, and our friends and families are delusional conspiracy theorists.

We all forget how “truth” works.

Instead everything becomes binary, in a non-world.

I don’t care what your opinion is, if you give a shit about the truth then you need to keep track of one thing— your mind.

Otherwise known as your fool.

See, we’ve each got one and they’re only smooth and persuasive in our heads. Once you start logging the data (writing) you’ll be able to see them more clearly.

And clarity is what determines if you get better of them or not.

Don’t let be fooled by your fool.

“If you bring forth what is within you– what is within you will save you. IF you don’t, what is within will destroy you.”

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Better to be a Fool than Cool

In the end, we all want the same thing.

We dress it up different, but we all want a good life– and we chase whatever we think will bring us that.

But there is a gap and our aging automatically widens it.

That gap is in playfulness, with how you are now vs when you were a kid –and can be bridged when you realize why it’s there.

We take ourselves too seriously.

From career choices, to likes and dislikes, our beliefs, and even the shit we do for fun– our hobbies, all of these things some how become overly competitive… and we live in that mode.

The real problem with this is creativity comes from play, and most of us will forget to do that.

Rather than performing, participate.

See yourself through the eyes of others to better grasp yourself, and make adjustments. There’s no such thing as permanent in the human being.

Stuck is temporary.

Fool doesn’t mean idiot. It means willfully childlike, playful, bold.

It means choosing the bright side, knowing that all of it comes down to this anyway.

Forget cool, play, make mistakes, be bold, take risks– fool on.

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Change Your Circumstances By Changing Your Attitude

Maybe this is messed up, but it takes conflict for me to be clear headed. No idea why, but for whatever reason, when I see others delusional AF and fighting over nonsense– I snap into ruthless practicality.

It’s in these moments, when I should be in turmoil– that all I have is peak wisdom and understanding.

But I got it.

Even if only temporarily, I need this to stay with me.

I’m rich.

I’m rich with opportunity, health, and freedom. I’m rich with life. Yeah, I want a lot more of it– but it’s not a change thing at this point, it’s just scale.

My problem is I haven’t learned to enjoy it as I got it, and that’ll be a focus for this new year.

We have shit attitudes because we see things wrong. Like we’re wearing sunglasses indoors and then wonder why everything’s so dark??

It isn’t– you’re just the weirdo who never looks people in the eyes.

But if I really knew and embraced the fact that I’m dying, we all are, each day– and I kept that close with me, I’d play more often.

“Premeditation of death is premeditation of freedom… He who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. Knowing how to die frees us from all subjection and constraint.” –Michel De Montaigne

Some of us are looking too far ahead– not into our reality, but fantasy. Forget purpose, pursue goals. Look around you, don’t miss this.

We’re born to a time, use and embrace it.

I’m done being the outcast, I don’t know about you but I’m ready to be a player.

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Forget What You Think You Know

I didn’t know shit back then, and I plan on knowing even less moving forward.

Life doesn’t reward struggle.

Before you ready your comebacks, let me provide you some context.

Ever notice how the harder you try to fall asleep, the zombier you become? Or when you just “have to do something” you usually don’t.

That’s what I mean… the attitude of struggle is a pathetic one.

Do you have to work hard to hit your goals? Probably. But as soon as you do the “I’m so serious” thing and lose the play, it all becomes pointless.

Look, I’m writing this post pretty early– so if this turns into some 2am stoner talk, forgive me.

But the thing that instantly makes me a happier person who is excited about life– is the realization that everything that makes up my world is just perspective (change what you see and change your entire life).

What in the wiring of the human brain makes us think we understand the world?

We all went from filling diapers to khakis and somehow that’s given us all we need to know automatically… because we’ve been around our small familiar block.

You don’t know anything, and that’s the best reminder.

Our attitude is a habit. Our routines, how we approach environments, how we talk to people, sure theres some DNA in there, but for the most part it’s just a habit.

And we don’t think to change it because it’s so close to us.

I’m not telling you to do anything, because theres nothing to do. Just try to forget– if you can let go of your buttoned up, know-it-all approach to the world, you’ll be fluid enough for something new.

You’ll find a whole new life waiting for you.

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Leave or Lean in? My Year In Review

Well, it’s been nearly a year and before crossing the chasm into my future I wanna review what’s worked, hasn’t, and what direction to take this in.

I encourage everyone reading this to do the same.

So, for this last year I’ve developed myself as a writer, started muay thai training, posted on this blog daily, and I’ve learned more about myself… again.

The latter might be most significant, though corny– crucial. Unlike what we’re constantly fed about goal-setting and self improvement, I no longer create goals based off my strengths.

Desires? Kinda sorta.

In truth, everything in my life is an insurance policy built around my weaknesses. Especially my goals.

Knowing myself, I always want to leave. I’ve always craved escape but the massive improvement is that even with that– I’ve stayed the course. Nothing happens from bouncing, it just creates the need for more of it.

Since I know my mind does this little thing where as soon as I get bored of my reality I want to burn down all progress, find a new path, and backpack across it–

I don’t.

I stopped acting on that impulse, because that’s all it is. A biological knee-jerk reaction to dissatisfaction.

Note to self: for this next year, I want you to go all out. Like you did that one year, your best year– you know the one.

Let’s just see what happens if you take the things you have before you, and you magnify them by fully embracing them.

A year is nothing in the grand scheme of things.

If you aren’t sure what to do, what you want, or where to go– LEAN IN first. More comes from this than leaving.

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Storm Drains: How To Use Bruce Lee’s “Empty Mind”

A lot of successful people sell the idea of “actualization” as something you can walk right into.

You’re likely familiar with their notion– imagine who you want to be, then act like it.

As your experimenting representative, of course I’ve already tried this method and want to share with you what I’ve found….

in short, it is total kaka.

Your ideal, perfect self, higher you, whatever you want to call it– isn’t something you walk into. Although we all have super powers of imagination– you can’t pretend your way into a new life.

BUT the law of attraction? I know.

Not saying you don’t have an ideal to reach–only that you can’t randomly masquerade as them. Because you don’t know them yet– you don’t know your potential.

So, the start of this isn’t make believe rather It’s something you communicate with.

It’s helpful to understand you are a multifaceted individual, with many different wants and needs– and sometimes those desires conflict.

So instead of imagining a bullshit higher self that you keep pretending to be– and fail to be, get to know the citizens of your city, because they are very real, and they’re with you every step of the way.

Your mind is comprised of all these citizens, all have wants and needs and dreams– the key is to find the north star. The one unifying belief they all share– the one goal they all need and agree on.

This resolves all conflict, and will move you forward.

I tried to be a person who doesn’t have internal storms– who isn’t moody. Because that was my ideal, but pretending only made the storms even worse. So not only do I despise advice of “aim for your ideal” but I stand against it because it doesn’t work.

The key here is leverage.

I can direct those storms, I can ride them and make something of them.

You have to find your Storm Drains– a place to channel your energies.

I’m learning to write every single time I go through it, this way I can empty my mind and create something from the chaos.

This is the key to actualization– it is using everything you have and are, because you have it for a reason.

Quit fighting it, channel it– direct it.

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Kids see ghosts

Since my Daycare-dwelling-days, I always believed there was something more to life– not just here, but onward and afterwards.

No one convinced me, my parents weren’t religious, and I never talked about it. It was just something I held with me.

But like most of us, as I adulted– I started to lose the magic.

This isn’t a spiritual post, or me talking about some bad ouiji board experience– that’d be cool, but I know better than to ever touch one of those things.

This post is about my grip on reality and yours…

And how we don’t see clearly at all.

The thing that I’m afraid of now is myself.

When I’m clearheaded– it’s so easy to build. All my obstacles disappear and I can focus on what’s in front of me. I mean, damn– I’m a writer, I work remote, I’m finally building towards something and as far as options go– for the first time I have a lot of them.

But this thinking doesn’t last.

I don’t think I’m even close to skilled enough to explain the what, why, and how of my inner saboteur, but I can try.

It always happens, and fast.

I get restless, my mind plays comparison games, and I start to see everything in a negative light: Where I am, who I am, and all the people in my life.

An urge to always start over takes over, and in that moment, It’s like everything in my life becomes something I stand against.

This is why it took me so long to see any kind of success. I was never able to see real life, and that’s why I couldn’t get better of it.

I see ghosts.

Your problems weren’t real, kid.

When I finally realized that, I was able to take control back by relying on systems and now I’m taking it a step further– systems of thought.

You’ll know when you attack your real demons, because the byproduct is progress. You’ll finally break free of the loop you’re stuck in.

It’s funny most of us don’t believe in ghosts– but how much of what you see actually happened?

If you want to break free and gain a new life, you need to get as close to reality as possible. That starts with you realizing you daydream…

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Everyone’s a Gemini: Your Problem with Your Twin…

How often do you talk to your twin?

I know, most of us don’t get along with family.

But you have to make peace with this one, because they’re conjoined with you at the brain– we’re talking about your twin. There’s the public YOU and the private YOU.

And even though twinzo’s private, they narrate every part of our stories.

So let’s talk about self-acceptance.

“Love thyself, accept your weirdness, your quirks make you who you are”– a lot of sweet nothings shoved down our brains in an attempt to convince us that theres nothing wrong with us.

meh.

As if settling automatically makes you love yourself.

See, your narrator won’t fall for what the public does, because unlike the public, they know everything about you, and they know when you lie.

I’m starting to see internal conflict as data, nothing personal, emotional, or negative. Where there is conflict, there is a need for resolution– and so, we should embrace all internal conflict.

It’s often subtle, and very hard to distinguish.

But you’ll know when there’s a problem with your twin.

For example– let’s say you’re doing everything you’re supposed to be doing. You have a career that’s solid, you’ve got hobbies you’re enjoying, and you’re steadily building your own project on the side.

Everything looks good– except, only you know, you’re miserable. Deep down, pissed off.

Instead of addressing it, you ignore it– because the realization that others who work harder than you have less fills you with massive guilt.

This creates a depressive spiral. And on-and-on it goes.

What creates this dissatisfaction?

And an even better question– who’s unhappy? You or your twin?

Sometimes you don’t want the same thing, and sometimes you do– it’s important to play for the same team if you’re going to get ahead.

Build a relationship with them.

My twin wants mastery, total submission to a skill, to be consumed by his own desire and direct that towards a singular purpose.

Me– I just want money and fame.

We clash over this every time. I just want to live a fun life, play, do cool shit– but twinster is intense, and needs much more.

Two people can’t drive one car, but they can agree on the destination.

Well, that’s what’s happening.

For the sake of keeping both parties happy, I’ve let go of some of my empty delusions to better my relationship with my twin.

I need him, and so, we’re working together.

Muay thai is for my twin. Writing is for my twin. When I’m alone and working– that’s for him. Because he has the intensity to focus.

When the time comes to step out and play– It’ll be me at the forefront.

Like it or not, we all have a twin.

So choose what you do wisely.

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Tightly Wound Up

If you’re one of those self improvement junkies, this’ll help you ease off the gas– what you’re doing is ultimately pointless.

Sure.

It might help, by a fraction of a fraction, to intermittent fast, cold shower, and meditate floating 3 inches above the ground having surrendered sugar, but understand that all of that is unnecessary if you don’t take action.

Action is the only requirement for success.

The universe plays no part in that equation, but the law of attraction is somehow still a better sell.

It’s weird how good we get at rationalizing. It’s easy to blame the wrong things in life, and then spend time trying to change them– to no avail.

Bedazzling a jewel on the center of your forehead won’t open that third eye, and those plugged up chakras can’t be helped.

There is no deserve, the affirmations aren’t needed, and you don’t have to feel good about what you’re doing. Might even be better to feel like shit– you’re a beginner, you’re supposed to feel incompetent.

We’re all looking way too into it.

You just have to act– even just a little, consistently, and then you’ll find yourself go from nothing to something.

Action makes us, not the other way around.

It’s weird realizing this, especially when you look around and see most people avoiding action– perpetually stuck in a state of getting ready to act.

Those that keep the same insane disciplines, succeed– and then repeat, they’re so tightly wound up they attribute all their success to cold showers and starvation.

Riiiiiight.

If that’s your thing have at it, but the reason some of these successful goo-roos want to live forever is because they don’t live at all.

A well employed life brings a well employed death” -Da Vinci.

My point is this, don’t get all wound up preparing for success. Quit overthinking it.

It’s small action steps– for everything.

A better self, life, and career.

You don’t need anything else. Reading a gazillion books, buying nonstop courses, or searching for a mentor (might help but not necessary) all pointless.

Through action, we’re reborn.

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What are you talking about?

What are you saying– because the tongue goes where the mind is.

Pay attention to the things you say, to who you say them, how you say them.

Because like it or not, our word is our bond.

Our words reveal who we are and what we think of ourselves– that whole judge by the actions, sure it’s true but we’re not judging yet, we’re diagnosing…

…from tongue to mind.

So, what that mouth do?

Because only when you’re going off-script is when you’re really saying something, everything else is you blowing smoke.

You’ll notice the genre you talk about is always the same.

For some, it’s relationships, others ambitions, but it works the same– we show our values each time we communicate.

Why is this important?

If you want fulfillment you have to bridge the gap.

I was always ambitious– that’s a top value for me, but it took embarrassingly long to take action.

While I’d talk a big game, I had a hard time sticking– there was inner conflict.

That doesn’t change that the value is certainly ambition, but there was a mental block I had to work out.

There’s the point.

You know what you want– you talk about it all the time.

Even if you’re not specific, you know what’s important to you. The game you are playing is matching your internal world with your external.

Do that and you’ll have everything– fulfillment, success, awesomeness.

It starts with listening to what you say, then creating it. Don’t cheat yourself– because what you want is who you are.

We’re born to our desires.

Become authentic, create.

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Same Game/Different Player

There’s a dormant superpower in each of us, and while we may never be able to fly– this untapped potential allows us to rewrite many of the immutable laws that keep us stuck.

Let’s quickly talk about the game.

For most, it’s a 9-5. A family. Going from one thing to the next, sticking to a routine– a level of sameness.

We then find ourselves kinda floating– on autopilot, wondering why we’re unhappy.

“Familiarity breeds contempt.”

If you can’t change your world from the outside, try it from the in…

And this has been the most important realization. I can’t continue playing as this character, I need to upgrade.

I’m going to play this game different because it’s necessary. Because there is nothing that you can do, achieve, or have that suddenly makes life better.

You have to learn to love it. You have to practice life-ing. Fact is, most of us don’t know how to play this game.

We exist in it as background characters– our own movies, and we’re just going through the motions.

But passion isn’t something found– it’s brought, you have to bring it to the table. You have to bring that energy, that fire, that deep engagement.

Life is something created, but we waste time looking?

My challenge to you– try to imagine a better way to play. Whatever you come up with will be authentic and unique, because you came up with it.

What you imagine will be a reflection of what you need to bring out.

And let’s try to play as the main character.

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Re-Walked Down Memory Lane

During our want-repreneurial phase, my best friend and I would often go to this same spot.

It was a park surrounded by ginormous mansions, where the further up you walked through it– the less it became a park and more a community.

Anyway, back in the day we’d come here and hash out our lives via shootin’ the shit. We’d talk about goals, dreams, wants and needs, and of course– present struggles.

If I’m being real, it was almost always struggles.

In the span of two years, we’ve gained nearly unrecognizable lives. So, I had the idea to go back to ol’ faithful– like reading an old journal that might embarrass you, and re-walk memory lane.

We get there and we’re immediately flooded with memories (like the childhood haircut variety)– reminders of the type of losers we were. This isn’t low self esteem talking, it’s just adolescence.

I honestly don’t understand what created that struggle and how I got stuck in that place?

If I had to make a guess– I’d say withdrawing from life led to an increasingly delusional mind.

I keep my journals, memories, and all my mistakes at the forefront of my mind. It isn’t to make me feel bad– it’s just data.

Anytime I withdraw from life and try to all-or-nothing my goals, I immediately shoot up on some depresso-espresso and become ultra delusional.

What created those shit years back then– was doing nothing.

Nothing is the worst thing you can do for yourself. I look back and laugh at the imbecile I was, we both were.

You’re not allowed to worry about goals and vision when you’re stuck. Your only job in that moment is to get to neutral.

Neutral is work. Progress. Daily movement.

It’s simple.

Life is momentum, and when we’re not moving– we drain our lives of lifeforce.

Keep your mistakes at the top of mind because then when you feel like slipping, you can stay strong and you won’t.

That’s why we all have a memory lane– it’s a benefit.

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Not Bad For The Kid Who Never Smiled

I stopped caring about the outcome… now I’m free.

So, the thing that lifts misery is not giving a f**k.

Everything I ever did, considered, pondered, debated, and acted on– all of it was in the name of this vision I had for my life. I was Thanos-serious, even as a youngling. The irony is this vision sucked the joy from every moment—

Which explains the lameness, up until now.

I’m turning 27 soon, and ya boi is Benjamin Buttoning’ up his life. I’ve never been this fulfilled, and overall happy.

It’s not about settling– I’m after my goals, but I can honestly say how my life plays out doesn’t matter to me. The point is– I’m enjoying my movie.

I’m doing what I want to do, learning about and pursuing my interests, and pushing myself. My training is better than it’s ever been, my writing improving, and I’ve got a future I can see and build towards.

Outside of these things, I’m good. Nothing else is my business (not mine to worry about).

My life keeps getting better, because I’m getting better at playing.

If you’re reading this and your life is a booger bubble, here’s an ez-tip: Add one thing you enjoy or are genuinely curious about to your daily routine.

This will end up being that foundational habit– the one thing that kicks off everything. For me, it was muay thai.

I signed up on a whim since enough was enough, I always wanted to learn. Since then, it’s positively produced awesome outcomes in other areas.

You’re not too busy to start, starting is small.

Find the smallest step you can take towards an interest, and leap of faith it.

What have you always wanted to learn? The difference between those who piss away life and those who reach their dreams is starting. Do the smallest thing you can– start today.

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Reality Planning: An alternative to cheap dreams

While dreams can inspire you– on their own, they are just…dreams.

The more you step away from reality and “dream” the more you’ll suffer. Any time I would think about my fantasy life– where I have everything I’ve ever wanted, and in this fiction world never deal with bullshit, I end up feeling depressed.

Unknowingly, I’m comparing my life to this unrealistic internal movie and the lack of resemblance makes me feel ungrateful for what I have.

On top of that, it creates this shitty habit where you’re always chasing a dream. And you keep creating new dreams (that you don’t really care about) to fantasize over.

These are cheap dreams (not goals, not rooted in reality, not attainable).

My minds default is to binge watch my own cheap dreams despite me knowing that fulfillment comes from WORK.

Not having 24/7 fun- having.

The spice of life isn’t experience or variety, it’s improvement.

It’s staying the course.

It’s seeing how good you can get.

And although I am often restless and sidestep passed happiness, fulfillment is something I’ve been familiarizing myself coincidentally.

Wanna live an actual awesome life? Dedicate yourself to living your life.

In our current time– there’s a lot of talk on reinvention. They say you can pick up these self-improving habits, tabula rasa yourself back to neutral and start from scratch, then emerge from your cocoon as this peak you…

But that’s not what reinvention is and that likely won’t happen.

Habits for the sake of improving are stupid. Number 1- they don’t address your specific issues, and 2– you won’t stick if you can’t make a lifestyle out of them.

Waste of time.

So, what’s reality planning?

Every goal you consider, needs to be based on where you are right now and where you can take that (your skills and personality) to maximize fulfillment.

I am restless, often struggle with commitment, and my imagination likes to take me through trips of fantasy.

These are default traits– and since they’ve f**ked up my life in the past, I know to anticipate them, plan for them, and even leverage them.

Success comes from authenticity. Authenticity comes from knowing yourself.

How can you channel imagination? This trait when acted on goals– ruins you. When leveraged through writing, makes you creative.

What you’re doing is taking a objective view of your strengths and weaknesses, and then building life around it.

I am who I am. That’s true for you too.

Pretending we can have some other persons goals doesn’t make any sense, since we’re likely very different.

That said, you can create a fulfilling life by working out your DNA and leveraging it.

Reality is more interesting than fantasy anyway, so lean in.

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Finding The Game You’re the Player For

Like for many of us, my childhood self is embarrassing.

It wasn’t necessarily the 24/7 resting angry face, the bad attitude, or the thinking he was above everything… those were bad, but not embarrassing.

His worst trait was his inability to enjoy the present and quit taking himself so seriously.

I’ve grown a lot since then, but I still periodically slip into it.

I always wanted success– but I didn’t understand it at all. See, back then I thought success was just see something, do it, take it. I didn’t think about concepts like passion, authenticity, or value. Those were hippie words to me back then.

I’ll make this short and spare you my memory lane: We can only really succeed being authentic. If you don’t like yourself– you don’t know yourself.

You need to find those unique to you traits, and leverage them.

Too many of us try to change the wrong things, or we straight up ignore important defining traits.

My challenge to you– what makes you, you?

Start with that, use it.

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Build Beyond Boredom

A lot of the things we look for are just ways of easing our boredom. We think the restlessness is spiritual, maybe it’s depression, and so we imagine the cure is distraction.

A trip across Country, a new role or hobby, anything– so long as it’s different.

Then when we’re bold enough and act on those impulses, we’re surprised the same feeling of discontent is still there… why?

Because the boredom never came from a need for change but your disengagement.

If I had to put a percentage of how many of these blogs are letters to myself, in hopes that I don’t f**k up my life, I’d say it’s 97%. The rest are helpful/ hopeful fortune cookies.

I say that to say, BUILD where you are! Find ways to engage more.

Boredom is a struggle only because you’re off somewhere else, instead of where you are. I like my life, but it’s missing something important– a deeply help value: Excitement.

You have to find ways to enjoy the every day process– so incorporate small steps. Do anything, it can be small, it should be small.

Just make sure it excites you, even if only a little, it’s crucial for you to cross the finish line.

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