Today I thought about how I would spend my time if I were going to die in a week. — Pretty quickly I realized that I would like to just sit down and have coffee and heart-to-heart conversations with people I really connect with. That is genuinely how I would want to spend my last days. And that made me realize that the greatest human desire underlying everything we do…

My entire life from a young age, I was always complimented on my writing. — It was always the only thing that came naturally. And I always assumed I’d be a successful writer. It felt inevitable. But then life happened. Through a series of addictions, medications, mental illness, and distractions, my goal to be a writer fell by the wayside. …

If there was an ache in your soul today, Know that tomorrow will be better. If you went through the entire day, Feeling disconnected from every single person, Know that tomorrow will…

What if I told you I had the magic cure to feel AMAZING with ZERO anxiety or depression for about a year? Would you bite? Would you eat from the forbidden fruit? — I actually do have an answer for this. I wouldn’t do you like that. I did a therapy program once where the therapist kept making us turn the ball into a “magic ball” that could “reverse time 10 years” or “make you a millionaire overnight”.

No matter who you are or what you believe, I think we can all safely agree that anything Sylvester Stallone says is about as close to fact as it gets. As far as I’m concerned, if it's Stallone approved, it's damn near biblical. Sylvester Stallone said this during an interview…

I search the empty crevices of my mind for something to say. — There is nothing. Because I don’t have a life. My life has been consumed by entertainment… by the lives of others. I consume their content and fill the void that was once myself. I no longer exist. And that was the goal, wasn’t it? To drown myself into oblivion with…

It’s the challenge facing every artist in the world. — I don’t know how to be mentally stable and be a prolific writer. So much of art and critical thinking comes from pain. It comes from anguish. It comes from the feeling of barely being able to crawl through this life and relating to others who feel the same. Art…

This is going to be the best year of my life. Why? You may ask. How do I know? — I know this is going to be the best year of my life the way a bear knows it needs to hibernate in the winter. I know this is going to be the best year of my life the way a mother holding her newborn child knows she will do…

I used to be someone who cared so much. — I cared about having the most wild life experience. I cared about following my soul. I cared about the impact I made on the world. And I used to be someone who usually won. Pretty much everything I aimed for, I achieved. Then, as my goals started getting bigger (and…