“Some arrogance is essential to the creative process. The very idea that your private thoughts or feelings are worth sharing with anyone outside your family or friends is already a kind of arrogance. Arrogance is the exit and entry point to the humiliation that art requires. Not unrelated is a dubious courage that when you…
We each build our identity through our actions—on the people we become through our habits and relationships. As Jim Rohn pointed out, we are the average of the five people we associate with the most. There’s a lot of truth in this observation. The people around us influence us, and amplify our own actions and…
“Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow all the delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these, if you but remain true to them, your world will at last…
“You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.” — Jim Rohn If we operate with a high level of agency, we are active influencers in our days. When we operate with low agency, conversely, we feel…
“When I look back on resolutions of improvement and amendment which have year after year been made and broken, either by negligence, forgetfulness, vicious idleness, casual interruption, or morbid infirmity; when I find that so much of my life has been stolen unprofitably away, and that I can descry by retrospection scarcely a few single…
Well, I see the end of the rainbowBut what more is a rainbowThan colors out of reach?— The Avett Brothers, Swept Away There’s a fine line between being satisfied with what you’ve got and yearning for what you haven’t got. I follow, and thus am constantly teased by, Aurora Borealis updates. I happen to live…
When my body won’t hold me anymoreAnd it finally lets me freeWhere will I go?Will the trade winds take me south through Georgia grain?Or tropical rain?Or snow from the heavens?Will I join with the ocean blue?Or run into a savior true?And shake hands laughingAnd walk through the night, straight to the lightHolding the love I’ve…
“In most of our decisions, we are not betting against another person. Rather, we are betting against all the future versions of ourselves that we are not choosing.” – Annie Duke, Thinking In Bets As we enter the first full work week of the New Year, I’m focused on this concept of Second Order Thinking…