Writing Off the Grid

Sometimes, to achieve your dreams, to focus on what matters, you must disappear. Go off the grid. Be alone with yourself. Not everyone will be able to handle that or understand why, but it is important for your becoming. Because you are sacrificing who you are today to become who you want to be tomorrow. [Read more…] about Disappear

If you want to change your life, it’s more than telling yourself, “No more excuses.” It’s more than discipline and willpower and having a positive mindset. And it’s more than just believing in yourself when no one else does, when it feels like everything is going against you. Change requires—demands—that you ask yourself, “What are you willing to sacrifice to get where you want to go, to become who you want to become?” [Read more…] about Sacrifice

Disappear… [Read more…] about Disappear

Begin where you are. Do not wait for inspiration. Do not wait for the right moment, the right circumstances. And, above all, do not wait on someone else to give you permission. Waiting holds you back, holds you hostage to a life you don’t want and that does not belong to you. You may be afraid, and the future may be uncertain, but you must just begin where you are. [Read more…] about Just Do This: Begin

Sometimes we make a choice that, deep down, we know isn’t in our best interest. It is contrary to who we want to be. And we do it over and over because it keeps us comfortable. We’re afraid of facing all the things in our lives that are bothering us. That would mean “identifying what in your life can be fixed, changed, and transformed.”¹ That is why the choices we make drive who we can and cannot become. [Read more…] about Choices

1. West, B. (2020). The Mountain is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage into Self-Mastery, New Nork: Thought Catalog Books, p. 80 [↩]