If you’re like me, writing isn’t just about putting words on a page. It’s about writing something with meaning. It’s a promise. Every time you write, you make a silent contract with yourself that your thoughts, stories, and ideas are honest, fair, and worth capturing....
This essay is crazy talk. Yesterday was the perfect day, a snapshot of what every day could be like in my ideal world. We all know that life interferes. That’s what life does. I used to think that these sorts of days, the perfect ones, were anomalies, but over the...
My daughter showed me something yesterday that filled me with pride. It was a list of what she wanted to accomplish in 2025. She’s fourteen years old. It made me wonder how many adults put together such a list, how many adults want to live their life that...
“You’re very creative.” You said it before to someone. Probably several people have said it to you. People collectively think of creativity as something we are born with. That’s probably partly true. But no matter how well I was born to shoot basketball hoops, if I...
We just finished an election season. Thank God that’s over. It never ceases to amaze me that many elections are held around the premise that someone else will fix our problems. They are not. Ever? Never. We fix our own problems. Bringing this home to writers, it's...
My daughter caught my attention. “But I want it to be perfect.” It was a moment of awakening. My daughter's innocent desire for perfection echoed my own inner struggle, a battle I’ve been fighting for years. The realization that this ideal of perfection was already...
Success requires discipline, focus, and knowing your “why.” Without them, distractions can lead to downfall. Stay vigilant and keep your goals aligned with your values.
It's comforting to delude ourselves that our lives and careers should follow a steady upward trajectory, like a climbing line on a graph. But in reality, they resemble the unpredictable zigzag of the stock market, with its ups and downs. This fluctuation is not a sign...
When it finally hits us, we wonder why we didn’t realize it all along. You’ll laugh when I say it. But after you think about it, you’ll realize that this might be your reality. It is this: Great things don’t happen to you. You make great things happen. It sounds...
Why should we care about creativity? Because it's not just a concept, it's a tool that can give our lives meaning and expression. In the end, it is our life. Creativity is a broad term that we often overlook. It's not just about art or music, it's about the unique...