Self-Worth Is Lived, Not Affirmed
Why how you act toward your life matters more than what others say or think about you By the time most people begin thinking about self-worth, they’re already tired. Tired of second-guessing themselves… overthinking conversations… feeling behind, overlooked, or...
Beliefs Are Not Truth
They Are Assumptions You’ve Been Rehearsing In the last article, I wrote about resistance. How it disguises itself as caution, reasoning, or emotional truth. How it keeps us circling around what matters instead of engaging with it. But resistance doesn’t sustain...
Resistance: Why Knowing Better Rarely Leads to Doing Better
Why we resist what matters, and how that quietly shapes the course of our lives. If engagement is a choice, why don’t we choose it more often? Instead of moving toward what we most want to resolve, we evade, withdraw, or turn against it. Then later, we look back and...
It’s never too late to start or to start again.
A foundational perspective on focus, meaning, and how we engage life. Do you sometimes get that feeling like you’ve missed the boat? Like all the chances you had, have passed you by? I know what that’s like… After years of living in a drug-induced haze And bumbling...
Going Through The Motions
There’s few things worse than grinding away at a job you don’t have much love for or living a life of endless responsibilities and drab routine with no sense of meaning or purpose. I remember working long hours to maximise my income for a great short term insurance...
Darkness
It’s in the darkness that I am most able to appreciate the value of light. It’s in the extreme contrasts that the true value of things become apparent and it seems a hidden purpose of life to reveal such things through our most profound struggles. The real...
Enough
Having experienced the desire for more for myself on many occasions in my life, I’ve consistently been brought to the realization that it was merely a product of not fully appreciating what I already have. Having things be the way we don’t actually want...