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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…

Hustle culture has been telling us for years to “Just Do It.” (Also shoe companies. And capitalism.) Just race blindly towards whatever the goal. Grow grow grow! And the feeling that we constantly need to be pushing ourselves outward and pressing for more —growing— has become a wound. It makes it impossible to be peaceful…

photo by Sean Thomas via Unsplash When you are writing a new idea, but you don’t know how to put the pieces together or if everyone will think you are an idiot – it’s there. It’s there in a painting, when you have a gorgeous piece of brushwork that’s not quite hitting the feeling, and…

photo by Billy Pasco via Unsplash Any kind of creative work or business building continually takes us to the edge of a cliff. On one side is the sh*tty world you’ve known so far. On the other is everything you might want, things that might kill you, and existential terror. Over and over again, we…