Part I: Started From the Bottom When I first landed in Austin, TX, I pursued my passion for writing, but it didn’t pay anything. I earned my living thanks to random gigs and freelance jobs, but the search for each individual project was time-consuming and draining me of all emotional energy to even think about … Read more
Like many kids in the West, my parents placed me into Sunday School at a young age where the Church taught me Bible stories. I never resonated with the Church’s teachings on the text and my disinterest grew into skepticism as I aged. I understood the importance and value of messages like “treat others as … Read more
I listen to a lot of podcasts these days, so I put together a list of my favorite mind-blowing podcast episodes to save you time when deciding whether or not episodes are worth your time. In this post I’ll share a bit about podcasts, the list of my favorite podcasts, their best episodes, other important … Read more
So often I just wish that life went the way I wanted it to. Why can’t everything be perfect? That’s the way it should be, at least I think. After all, I’m doing my best. Meanwhile, here are these unwanted things happening to me and that’s never fun. Also, wanted things aren’t happening to me and I feel stuck, waiting … Read more
…And Make Them Happen Instead. For the past year, I dreamt of being a writer. I wrote hundreds of pages in a journal with my deepest feelings, thoughts and ideas and afterwards, I put away the journal and I dreamt. I dreamt that one day I’d become a writer, and I waited and waited for someone like you to discover … Read more
WHY WE CONNECT TO MYTH Mythology separates humans from the apes. The stories we create bring order to society and contribute to evolution and progress. Long before mankind built tools for transcribing information, we transferred knowledge through memory, and the use of story allowed for easy recollection. But now that we’ve created tools like Google … Read more
I once believed my goal in my life was to be happy. All of that changed the day I attended a ten-day silent meditation retreat. There, I began to understand how the mind and body work to create suffering. And how I could find a way out. “Ask yourself whether you are happy and you … Read more
I drank a lot in college. Especially freshman year. For whatever reason, it seemed like there was a party every other night. With each subsequent passing year, those parties and my drinking lessened, but the habit remained. I never did anything to land me into trouble, thank God. The worst was probably a few years … Read more
George Mumford dropped by the 10% Happier Podcast with Dan Harris where he proceeded to plant wisdom seeds into the ears and minds of listeners, each for our own benefit. His interview was filled to the brim with insights on life, mindfulness, meditation and flow. For the uninitiated, I’ve put up a few quick facts about Mr. Mumford followed by quotes … Read more
“It starts with this. Put your desk in the corner and every time you sit down there to write remind yourself why it isn’t in the middle of the room. Life is not a support system for art. It’s the other way around.” – Stephen King I think we all have an inherent desire to … Read more