Monopolar
“Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.” – Sigmund Freud Brandon Sanderson is a writing machine. He wakes up at noon, writes until 5pm, spends time with his family from 5pm to 10pm, and then stays up writing from 10am until around 4am or 5am. He’s become one of the most prolific and beloved […]
Impress Yourself
“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” – Mother Teresa David Goggins, the author of Can’t Hurt Me, recently made a Facebook post about how he spent the better part of life caring too much about other […]
Sacred Weekends
“Rest when you’re weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.” – Ralph Marston Do you take weekends off? What are your days of REST… and are they sacred? I’m a freelance writer so I don’t really have anyone telling me when or where I have to […]
Unexpected Success
“Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.” – Audrey Hepburn Did you know Australia is wider than the moon? The moon sits at 3,400 kilometers (2,113 miles) in diameter, while Australia’s diameter from east to west is almost 4,000 km (2,485 miles). Unexpected Success Success is sometimes linear. […]
Compounding Optimism
“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.” – Vincent Van Gogh “Let me share a little theory I have about optimism, and why progress is so easy to underestimate” is the beginning line of an excellent article by Morgan Housel titled, Compounding Optimism. The 5-minute article […]
Practicing Happiness
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama What more does a person want then to be happier? The good news is that happiness is not just an emotion, but a skill — a skill that, like any other, can be practiced and mastered. You see, happiness isn’t […]
Your 4-Minute Mile
“However ordinary each of us may seem, we are all in some way special, and can do things that are extraordinary, perhaps until then…even thought impossible.” – Roger Bannister Before May 6, 1954, it was universally accepted that the human body simply could not run a mile in less than four minutes. But then Roger […]
What’s The Alternative?
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.” – Seneca If you’re anything like me, one of the main questions you ask yourself is a bit existential… Why am I doing this? I ask myself this question a LOT. It […]
Follow The Breadcrumbs
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle Did you know that the smell of rain is actually caused by a bacteria? This phenomenon is known as petrichor. It’s the earthy scent produced when rain falls on dry soil. The smell actually comes from the excrements […]
12 Rules For Life
“In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.” – Jordan Peterson Recently I’ve been enjoying reading through Jordan Peterson’s landmark bestseller, 12 Rules For Life: An Antidote To Chaos. And while I highly recommend reading the book if you haven’t already, I also realized that these rules would be really […]