Having a conversation with your older self can yield some surprising results. It’s a good technique to cut through the bull shit your telling your self and get down to the core of an issue, the real problem, or the most important thing that you may be avoiding.

A sample of the grind. What goes through the head and consumes the day of a small business owner in America.

A closer look at violence & the moral measure of our actions . Both MLK and Leonard Leo are trying to make the world more like their vision, what they share in common, and the meaning of violence against the status que.

The meaning of work. What does work mean and what does it mean to us? What questions can we ask when defining work that empowers us, and how much of our understanding of work comes from our parents, our history, and our past?

Finding it difficult to be consistent with the behavior that you want to cultivate? At least you’re probably amazingly consistent within your rut.

Let’s find out how to make the shift and apply that amazing consistence to where you want it.

This story is not unique. This is a poem on the challenges of scattered attention and competing priorities, and how it feels to steer against the wind.

Form follows function. But if you don’t have a clear why then you will struggle to bring your creatin into being.

The act of creation is never easy, it requires facing your fears. The first fear is the unknown. You must discover your why, or forever be muddled in teenage angst.

When I think about what the world would look like if everybody had the security to take risks, the safety to express them selves, and the “leisure time” to be involved in their communities, I get a tear in my eye. What a beautiful world that would be! Or at the very least I think it’s a world we should at least try before moving on.