• 30 Days of Writing,  Fiction,  Writing

    Cemetery Confessions

    [Day 15 of 30]: Its funny when the characters start talking to you.  its funny when it feels like they are telling you the story through some weird form of telepathy.   I love the feeling of writing in a deep and engaging flow when words practically sparkle off the page.  But it is weird to hear somebody else’s voice in my head as each character tries to tell me something new about my story, something I didn’t know a minute before I wrote it. I intend to cultivate and keep this feeling for as long as possible.  I intend to keep challenging myself to write every day no matter…

  • Personal Development

    The 5 Invisible People Inside of You

    Close your eyes and imagine I’m taking you to a cocktail party to meet the 5 most important people in the world. However, you’re not a guest at the party, you are the bouncer. Your job is to make sure everybody has a good time without getting too drunk and without starting any fist fights. Because tomorrow, these people are the ones who have to work together to make your Life Purpose possible. And anybody who ends up with a black eye won’t be very cooperative in the morning.

  • Personal Development

    How The Matrix Can Help You Discover Your Life Purpose

    Do you ever get the feeling that you’re wasting your life?  Running in circles, forever busy, but never getting anything of consequence done? You know that if you could just figure out what you SHOULD be doing with your life, you would finally feel the passion and motivation that’s been missing. “You’re here because you know something. What you know you can’t explain, but you feel it. You’ve felt it your entire life, that there’s something wrong with the world. You don’t know what it is, but it’s there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.” -Morpheus from The Matrix What you’re looking for is your purpose.  And…

  • Journal,  Personal Development

    Create a Meaningful Life

    How can you know what really matters in life?  How can you know if what you are doing is what you are meant to do?  How can you know if what you are doing has any meaning at all? The short answer is this… What matters in life is to know the meaning of life.  And the most powerful way to know something is to create it.  So what matters in life is to create the meaning of your life. If that seems a little confusing, here’s the long answer…. Your Meaning vs Their Meaning First, what you are doing does have meaning.  Your life will always mean something.  But…