✨”We should dig deep for our dreams.” ✨ I’m all about the 4-day work week but only because I’m still going to be writing 7 days a week for all 12 months of the year. I think a 4-day work week is exactly how we should work. Building other people’s dreams is not supposed toContinue reading “You Are Worthy of Your Dreams”
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Transformation, A New Creation
Choose Life, Choose the challenges, Become a new You. The initial coming to life wasn’t a choice we got to make but living our lives is one of the most beautiful choices we could make every single day. Not everyone’s living situation is a walk in the park where everything comes easy. Some people mayContinue reading “Transformation, A New Creation”
Understanding Responsibility from an Existential Perspective
Looking at Jean-Paul Sartre’s Bad Faith and applying it to ourselves. Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. –George Bernard Shaw What if we were fully accountable for ourselves in this world, good and bad? We are raised to think that we don’t have the capacity for handling life as mere humans.Continue reading “Understanding Responsibility from an Existential Perspective”
I had to Experience Publishing my Novel
“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.” — Samuel Johnson I didn’t see how or when I’d ever finished my first novel, but somehow, I managed to make it to the end. It was a humbling experience that I needed to have. It had to happen because for some reason it wasContinue reading “I had to Experience Publishing my Novel”
A Peek Inside
A Poem Peel it all away and you’ll find spiders dangling from portfolios filled with life’s great wisdom Some pages, never read some, ink stained with coffee rings and folded edges But deep inside this mind it’s just me and my old fisherman waiting out the storm. -Saschia Jayne Johnson
William James on Attitudes and How it Applies to Writing
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.” -William James William James is an American philosopher and psychologist who is considered to be one of the leading thinkers of the 19th century. It’s interesting that we are still learning this after so many years.Continue reading “William James on Attitudes and How it Applies to Writing”
Letting Go
New moons are a great time to let go. It’s not required, but it helps to have a designated cycle where you are intentional about letting something go that might be weighing heavy on you. You carry some things for a reason. Maybe they kept you safe. Maybe they’ve become part of your identity, soContinue reading “Letting Go”
Time, but Not Too Deep
“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” -Albert Einstein But maybe it does happen all at once. People have said your entire life flashes before your eyes. But let’s not get too deep. I think the best way to go about time is to find ways to enjoy it.Continue reading “Time, but Not Too Deep”
Pure Awareness
“Life needs to be experienced fully, not only in its sweetest, easiest moments. This is what mindfulness is all about—being here and now, with pure awareness of our experiences.” – Jennifer Burger Ms. Burger is preaching! When I’m working in jobs I don’t love or in environments that don’t sustain me, I feel like myContinue reading “Pure Awareness”
Openness
“The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.” -E. B. White I do like things staying the same. At the same time, I like to keep expanding too. I took one of those leadership tests and I scored high in openness. TheyContinue reading “Openness”
