Author: Morgan Alverson

photo by Phillip Graves via Unsplash They say the reason people stay in the military – face starvation, exhaustion, pain, terrible idiocy, being blown up, and potentially death – is not for a cause. They don’t stay to “serve their country” or “fight tyranny” or fulfill the contract or collect a paycheck. When things are…

photo by Sebastian Schuster via Unsplash One of the biggest, ongoing crises in my life has been a lack of meaning. If I parent, I journal, I make art (alone, at 2 am, without showing anyone)… I’m doing ostensibly meaningful stuff. But it feels like I’m not existing at all. I spent many years trying…

Everywhere on Substack, someone is there telling you to pick a niche, or you will never attract the right people, you will never sell a single hot dog, you will be a poor starving writer who has to get a horrible corporate job forever. And, of course, there are a lot of us who feel…

photo by Phileppe Murray Pietsch via Unsplash I don’t like goals for the same reason I hate it when people say, “Do hard things!” On one hand, we are often not smart enough to choose good goals for ourselves. Goals like making $10 billion, running a giant company, or looking like a movie star —…

photo by Martin via Unsplash I recently finished “Think on These Things” by Jiddu Krishnamurti. He talks a lot about solving our life’s problems, finding our right livelihood, finding energy for everything that we need to do in life – by becoming very attuned to what we love to do. In fact, the whole purpose…