Lots of people tell me every day on my vlog and on the streets (after they find out about my blog), that they want to be writers. I tell every one of those individuals – everyone is a writer at heart, but when it comes down to it, very few of us actually take pen to paper and get to …
I think human beings are optimistic creatures, almost to a fault. We get excited about something, and we work on it, believing that everything is going to turn out perfectly, without any effort, or with very little effort, time, and money invested. In this article, I speak about the relation between optimism and realism.
I am a creative person, and before I started doing improv as a hobby, I used to imagine that the more complicated you make something, the better it is. But I learned that simplicity is actually the key. Let me tell you more.
In the past, I used to believe that the rigidity of my opinions makes me a strong person. I imagined that I was mentally weak if I changed my opinion hither and thither based on passing fancy.
When I was younger, in my teens, or twenties, I used to believe that napping is a huge waste of time. I used to look at a sign of weakness. If I couldn’t get through the long days without sleeping, then that meant that I wasn’t strong enough to live in the real world.
This happens to me all the time. Especially since I work from home, and I have no one really telling me that I need to get to work, or I need to get shit done. In fact, I could spend my entire day contemplating the length of my fingernails, and no one would be the wiser. Procrastination – the demon …
Whenever I travel through a new place, there is this verve of creativity that rushes through me. There’s this rush of feeling inside of me, that makes me want to write, and write. I feel so ecstatically connected to that writer side of me in those moments. And that’s the primary job of a writer.
There are many people out there right now who are hating on 2018, saying that it was the worst year ever. And many of us are saying that it was the best year ever and we can’t wait to see what 2019 brings to us. Either way, I didn’t want to do a post pontificating on how my 2018 was …
When an oak tree puts out acorns, it knows not all acorns are going to result in another oak tree (this also applies when you plant seeds). In fact, one oak tree can put as many as 10,000 acorns in their masting year. And statistically, only one of those acorns is going to take seed properly and grow into a …