Ideas – Day 10 30-Day Writing Challenge Have you ever come across the statement that ideas are easy, but the execution of ideas is the hard part? I’ve heard this statement many times, but I’m not sure I agree with it…  “Ideation”  – the ability to come up with ideas is a muscle, something that…

Reading – Day 9 30-Day Writing Challenge For the first 21 years of my life, I avoided reading books like the plague. It wasn’t until after college that I read my first book cover to cover… My parents never pushed me to read because I excelled at math. I personally felt I was too slow…

Writing – Day 8 30-Day Writing Challenge What I’m doing right now is hard… Like really f******* hard!  That thing is writing. Even though the process of writing is hard, it’s one of the most rewarding practices I’ve brought into my life.  Out of all the classes I had to take as a kid, I…

Listening – Day 7 30-Day Writing Challenge Until the age of 6, I did very little speaking. My older sister always thought she knew best, so she would always speak on my behalf. It sounds a little sad, but I’ve actually benefited from this experience… I listened to the world for years before speaking out. …

After graduating with my bachelors I was handed a certificate, wished good luck for my life, then quickly shoved off stage for the other cogs in line to receive the same treatment.  Luckily, I was part of the small minority that actually had a job waiting for me after graduation. This job was based in…

Interconnected – Day 6 30-Day Writing Challenge Let’s go through a simple mental exercise… What would happen to you if the sun burnt out? What if all the plants died? What if we removed all the oxygen from our atmosphere?  How would you cope…?  Roughly 12,000 years ago when the agriculture revolution began, we began…

A Joker’s Life – Day 5 30-Day Writing Challenge “Nobody exists on purpose. Nobody belongs anywhere. Everybody’s gonna die. Come watch TV” ― Morty (Rick & Morty) One of the best quotes, from one of the best shows ever made.  If you’ve played a card game with a traditional deck of cards, you know there…

Doing more with less – Day 4 30-Day Writing Challenge To be “productive” and to be “busy” are two very different things.  I’ve spent my entire corporate career fighting off busyness to actually get anything done. Sadly, there seems to be a psychological virus spreading where people pride themselves on having a filled calendar always…

Pessimistic Futures – Day 3 30-Day Writing Challenge The world is in a weird place at the moment, at least from one man’s perspective.  All of humanity has been placed in “time-out” inside their homes to prevent the spread of a pandemic, American society has finally hit a tipping point for police brutality on minority…

Paper Therapy – Day 2 30-Day Writing Challenge Journaling and I have never really got along. Over the past 6 years, I’ve tried to maintain some kind of routine with reflection via journaling, but I failed each time. Even though I ended up quitting each time I was convinced that journaling was worth it, so…