Shifting gears completely from what’s been dominating my mind the past few months, can we just talk about how amazing BTS is? Yes, the K-pop group. I’ve only really been into them since the fall when they released Dynamite, a fun disco-inspired song meant to bring joy to listeners. It’s incredibly catchy and infectious. I’m …
This is quite possibly the most personally spot on cartoon I’ve ever seen. The idea of getting rid of all the preconceived notions about what I should be doing and things I should have accomplished and things I should want from life fits in well with where I am on my own journey and I …
Happy 2021! At the risk of cursing it, I am excited and cautiously optimistic about the new year. A few reasons why: We’re going to see the end of four years of tyranny and hate by a fascist wannabe dictator. There is a vaccine for the global pandemic that has been raging. We’ve got a …
Today marks my 40th year around the sun. I didn’t expect this to do a number on me, but it has. It really, really has. I feel like I’ve crossed into a new era of myself, but not for the better. Just for the older and unaccomplished. I think back to high school and I …
Not the easiest question, if you ask me. It’s one of those things that I’ve been thinking about more and more as the stressors add up and we’re still safer indoors after nine months. All that time has forced some serious reflection to happen. I typically have a whole slew of answers that I know …
This is the power of positive thinking in meme form. Confession time. I love The Secret. Not because it’s some huge revelation or some game changing new information, and certainly not the somewhat predatory marketing tactics, but because it got the idea of positive thinking mainstream. For a few years, I would feel myself sliding …
Courage is underrated. Everyone talks about it and throws the word around rather easily in some cases, rather sparingly in others. We think about courage in terms of superheroes and military and law enforcement officers and firemen. Doctors and nurses who are in the thick of the pandemic caring for some who still believe it’s …
We all could use more of it. Some people seem to have forgotten what it is. Kindness is not blind agreement. Nor is it reserved for those who help you first. It’s not something to be bartered and traded for when convenient. It’s not a tool to use when you need an edge. It’s a …
A reflection of this course, created with Adobe Spark. Originally posted as part of the Full Sail Mastery Journal.
I was working with my Google Calendar and going through old tasks in the list and came across a link to a video I saved back in 2016. It’s of a professor at Loyola University talking about the trigger warning he gives his students each semester. In short, “Yes, this is a painfully boring class, …