Category: Philosophy & Musings

I, like everyone else, don’t like to lose due to a risk I’ve taken… But I hate not trying even more.  Because that guarantees that I’ll never win, and that I lose by default.

 Why flagellate yourself because you’re unable to progress using someone else’s methods?  Sure, they may have something to offer…but if we were meant to take the exact same road that they did, we would have BEEN them.  Why not honor the clues that existence gives us through our differences, and see that we are all meant…

I’m a big, big proponent of positive thinking…but when it’s used as a mask/excuse to avoid accountability, shirk discipline, and people attempt to replace results with platitudes… Well in my opinion, that’s one of the most negative things one could do to themselves, regardless of how positive the thought may be.  

If I don’t die today then it’ll be some day… So why wait to apply myself?

Delving deep into the absurdities of human nature—the exceptions, the warts, the roll-your-eyes-at-the-sky ironies—and not turning away from them (as comforting as that may be), allows the author to make sense of it all.

IMHO, the hours that turn into days into months into years…that time isn’t meant to be nickel-and-dimed, spent in the service of reinforcing our comfort zones, always hoping to be buoyed by fortune (that ONE burst of effort that will ensure you never have to strive again).  That time is meant to be used audaciously,…

IMHO, acceptance of limitations allows me to strategically navigate through and past them.  Denial of limitations (the road most often taken from what I’ve seen) MAY allow me to surpass them, but will quash my ability to navigate.  We’re BORN with limitations—clues, if you will—that serve as rough guides telling us where to place our focus and spend our…

Human nature seems to dictate that we try to express our core philosophies in the most convincing way possible.  But to write effectively, one must go beyond that—one must be able to effectively express multiple viewpoints on the same subject through different sets of eyes.  A writer must see that opposing philosophies are not staunch lines drawn…