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Losing your virginity isn’t about sex and it isn’t about loss. The larger story is about a person of any age, inexperienced and uninformed, who uncovers a stepping stone to a new level of awareness and maturity about himself and the world in which he lives. When I landed my first job as an adult, I lost my professional virginity. But looking back, that experience was less about the…

Every once in a while, life takes me out of myself. After a certain amount of time and speed and space and pressure, I start to lose touch with my identity. I get stuck in a system of other people’s expectations and agendas that puts me at odds with myself. And all of the sudden I realize, oh crap, if I don’t find a way to get back to…

Sentences are my spiritual currency.  Throughout my week, I’m constantly scouring and learning and reading and annotating from any number of newspapers, blogs, online publications, books, articles, songs, art pieces, podcasts, eavesdroppings, random conversations and other sources of inspiration. Turns out, most of these sentences can be organized into about eleven different categories, aka, compartments of life that are meaningful to me. And since I enjoy being a signal tower of things…

The other day I was reading a bodybuilding and fitness forum when I stumbled acrosssomethingthat really disturbed me. It wasn’t so much the picture of the guy with biceps the size of trashcans, but the headline written above him: I’m so obsessed with success, I barely smile. That broke my heart a little. Probably because I saw a part of myself in that post. Not so much the muscles,…

Selling is the side effect of giving. Through reckless generosity and a promiscuous heart, you create so much value in the marketplace, that people have no choice but to pay you what you’re worth. In short, you give yourself away. This concept began as an anonymously written article in Forbes magazine nearly a hundred years ago. And due to its popularity and volume of reprint requests, the piece was later…

Now that anyone can turn their passion into a business, anyone will. And most of them won’t last. Why? Because we chase passion at the cost of practicality, and we fool ourselves into the false viability of our own ideas. It’s the new entrepreneur’s dilemma. We’re deciding what we want our customers to want, instead of uncovering the actual material realities of their every day lives. We’re asking the…

Optimism doesn’t increase your success. What it does do is increase your field of vision, which allows you to better notice the opportunities that lead to success. If you have a bad attitude about your job or your relationship or your battle with depression, odds are, you won’t get better­­ because you won’t do the necessary research on the resources that will make you better. You’ll never find the…

Sentences are my spiritual currency.  Throughout my week, I’m constantly scouring and learning and reading and annotating from any number of newspapers, blogs, online publications, books, articles, songs, art pieces, podcasts, eavesdroppings, random conversations and other sources of inspiration. Turns out, most of these sentences can be organized into about eleven different categories, aka, compartments of life that are meaningful to me. And since I enjoy being a signal tower of things…

If you don’t believe in magic on some level, your art is going to suck. And when I say magic, I’m not referring to supernatural enthusiasms or ancient mythologies or occult practices or bewildering godspeak, rather, those moments of virtuosity and mystery and meaning, those acts of human moral beauty that provoke the kindred and start a conversation with something much larger than yourself. In short, awe. That’s what…

Identity crisis is a group effort. It may manifest in the individual, but it’s magnified by the collective. When you realize you’re done doing that which defined you, giving up a self that you have come to identify with and call our own, courageously leaving behind a world you know so well––maybe the only world you’ve ever known and felt home in––the first brand of devastation that manifests is…