Month: February 2018

Here’s what I’ve noticed: Everyone’s talking about 10-step plans to change your life, make a ton of money, and travel the world.Everyone’s talking about “side-gigs” and “following your passion.”Everyone’s talking about doing what you’re “meant” to do. But no one seems to be talking about what we can do to make doing what we’re meant to do NORMAL.No one seems to be pointing out WHY we aren’t already doing work that matters.No one seems to be pointing out WHAT we need to understand to do that.No one seems to be pointing out HOW we get there. Here’s what I know to be true: Fish will grow as large as their limits allow.So, put a fish with ENORMOUS potentialinto a t-tiny fishbowl, and he might just stay a t-tiny fella -…

Life has no map. No encyclopedia, dictionary, or even an index. Here we are, out here making this up as we go along. Like we know what we’re doing. We do what everyone else is doing. The way it’s always been done. Following people like they know more than us. Like they know what they’re doing. That’s cool if you’ve got rich, happy, successful people to model. But how many rich, happy, successful people do you know? We’re doing it wrong. I don’t mind being cliché: our model for life is literally the definition of insanity.   Remember when you were little and you could be anything, then somebody showed you how? Just kidding. That never happened. Nope. We got a story: “Be good, get good grades, get into a good…