Waiting To Start
We live up to the gift of our lives by expressing our rarity. We are each someone who has never existed and never will again. To sacrifice what is distinct about us…
What We Pay Attention To Is Who We Are
Our attention is the currency with which we buy the life we desire. Our intentions set the direction. Attention carries it out. Every hour of attention is a purchase.
Fearful Compliance Wastes Lives
Intentions create thoughts, thoughts create experiences, and experiences build our reality. We choose our thoughts based on what we intend. They direct our attention and create our lives.
Happiness: Where We Go Wrong
If we want to be happy, we have to lower our expectations. Life will not be a never-ending winning streak. It wasn’t designed to be.
My Life Was Fine. That Was the Problem.
Today, it’s not our jobs but our personal lives that keep us from renewing our minds. The burden is daily life in the kind of places built around ever-multiplying HOAs, athleisure, and strip malls. I was living in one of them.
Who’s Behind The Wall?
The banging started again at 3:30 a.m. It shook the wall. Earlier that morning, I’d emailed the manager about the 9:30 p.m. banging. I had thought seriously about calling the police.