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Once You’re Awake, You Can Never Go Back
"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions" - Oliver Wendell Holmes I shuffled down the winding dirt path, careful not to slip onto the jagged rocks on either side of me. It was nearly dusk and I was on the last leg of...
You Already Are What You Will Become
I closed my MacBook and dropped my head on the desk. Shutting my eyes, I let out an audible sigh. No one was left in the office but me. It was May and I could feel the late afternoon sunlight warm my face. While the empty office was at peace, my mind was far from it....
How to Take on Your Dreams Step-By-Step
Four months ago I was laid off from my job at a tech startup. I had been cutting my teeth on the sales team for 18 months when, on a hot day at the end of August, it all came to a crashing halt. There had been a reorganization and my position was being eliminated...
How Journaling Gave Me The Life I’ve Always Wanted
Back in 2016 I was at a job I hated and in a career that no longer made sense to me. So I started looking for answers. I listened to countless self help books and podcasts looking for clues to find a better life. One idea that kept coming up over and over...
How To Survive When a Job Grinds You Down
It was the fall of of 2013 and I had been in my job for about six months too long. I had never found the job exciting, but now I found it downright unbearable. Every morning I'd walk in to 30+ overdue proposal requests and a red blinking light on my phone which meant...
Rip Out the Weeds So The Flower Can Grow
My alarm shot off like a rocket in my ear. I jumped up, startled. I found my phone and shut off the alarm in one foul swoop. I lay back in bed and peered out through the slits of my eyes. The sun was rising bright in the bare April sky. How could I forget to shut...
Happiness Now is the Only Remedy
Finally I was free. After eight months of applications, informational interviews, and countless denials, I had at last landed a job at a tech startup. All that stood between me and escaping the "9 - 5" office life was my obligatory two weeks notice. I...
What I Learned From My Terrible Job
As I look back on my life so far, it's easy for me to remember times that I've struggled. Back in 2011 I was unemployed for six long months after graduating from Syracuse University. I lived with my parents in the suburbs while all of my friends, with their coveted...
Eliminate Fear-Based Thinking with These Seven Questions
What if the only thing holding you back from accomplishing your big goals in life is irrational fear? That's right. Most of your fears aren't based in reality but exist only in the construct of your mind. You fear the uncertainty of the future. You fear financial...