This comes from reflections on my own experiences, so there’s bias and specificity… When you’re starting out and are fairly unskilled in a lot of ways, you need to assemble a team. Generally the team you assemble will be near to your skill level, as those with much greater skill wouldn’t necessarily want to work …

What you do and how you express it has to come from a place of love/passion or it won’t resonate with you and people won’t be inspired by it. You have to find that which you love, then speak from that place. It will infuse everything you say and how you say it. Four things:

Early in the pandemic I began reading a lot, and there was a moment last year when I realized I fell in love with reading and writing. It was one of the most significant moments of my life, but until this morning I never thought about why it happened. Well there is so much chaos …

Morning Pages is a daily journaling technique where you write 3 pages as quickly as you can, whatever comes to mind. No pre-thinking, no judgement. Every once in a while it can be truly cathartic, releasing a lot of chaos, pain, and negativity in our unconscious. I published a video and blog post a few …

At the gym the other morning I heard the song “We Built This City” by Starship – it’s a fun song from the 1980’s and put me in a good mood when I heard it. We all have this experience, whether it’s a song, or a speech or just the sounds of nature. I was …

Regardless of your time, money, circumstance, or even any realistic chance of success, here are three things always your control when you are pursuing something you are truly passionate about:

Yesterday I posted a video on our tendency to take a specific instance of failure, loss, or rejection and generalize it into a characterization of our identity. We then, with strong emotion, internalize these characterizations and imprint them into our unconscious minds, where they are integrated into our sense of identity unless later purged. At …

Resolving fundamental issues in our unconscious can help us to release psychological limitations and pain, and to identify that which is most meaningful to us but which is buried below the chaos. I think of a scab which has formed over our unconscious, cold and hard until something ruptures the scab and releases the chaos …

The curious incident in today’s Morning Pages session was that nothing unusual happened. It was just a normal session, with no major upheaval or release like what happened yesterday. And when I reflected on yesterday’s Morning Pages session, I couldn’t identify any specific triggers the day before that I thought would have caused such an …

A few weeks ago I started doing Morning Pages, which is a three-page writing practice described in The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron. Each morning for the past 19 days I’ve done my three pages, with some mild benefit each day. This morning, however, I had a different experience entirely. I woke up around midnight …