Category Archives for "happiness"

You tell yourself a staggering amount of lies every day just to cope with living. In a sense, self-deception is a useful survival tool. If you had to spend your entire day being objective about everything in your life, you’d probably be miserable. So, on the one hand, your emotions help you. But, on the […]

I don’t know you, but I know you. The things I talk about are so universal that they almost always apply to you. This entire time, I’ve been focused on getting to the core of what you want, which is what I want, which is what we all want. We’re basically all the same. How […]

Want to know what I love about writing, both as a writer and a reader? Writing gives you the unique opportunity to take a dispassionate look at your own life. If I’m reading a book about a subject, I can interpret the things I both agree with and disagree with in the book without having […]

I put quotes around the word “truths” in the headline because who the hell knows, right? When I say truths, I mean what’s true to me and what seems to be true across time for many many people. I put the word ‘can’ in the headline instead of ‘must.’ Why? Because you can do whatever […]

I hate what they’ve done to you. Who do I mean by ‘they’? This haphazardly cobbled together Kabal of media pundits, institutional overlords, politicians, employers, and well-meaning authority figures that have not only convinced you that you’re average, but that it’s okay to be average. It’s not okay to be average. I’m not saying there’s […]

Let me see if I can paint an accurate picture of your life. You get thrown off emotionally almost every single day of your life. From petty annoyances to the deep-seated anxieties you have to the over-analyzing of your past and the incessant worrying about the future, you just feel like you’re caught in an […]

2019 was a crazy ride for me. I quit my job to become a full-time writer, separated from my wife, celebrated my daughter’s third birthday, went partially blind in one eye, took leaps and bounds professionally, and had to start all over personally. This year taught me to be even bolder in 2020. This list […]

Every time I see someone driving a brand new luxury car, I picture them being massively insecure. I feel like that car is the only thing in life they have to show for their efforts and that driving it is a coping mechanism for the fact they really don’t feel whole. In reality, this isn’t […]

“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” – Blaise Pascal I woke up this morning and did something I haven’t done in years, maybe even a decade or more. Rather, I didn’t do something — check my phone the moment I woke up.  I decided to try […]

One thing all of society can agree on — water is good for you. Surely, no one thinks water is bad, right? I hope not. Anyway, why am I bringing this up? Even water can kill you if you drink too much of it at once. This happens to people who take ex or molly, […]