Hope for the Pessimist

11/09 later I’m reading Brianna West right now and there is a lot here to make me think. She speaks of what I already know, that pain is a message. It is our mind crying out and telling us that we must change something about our life, that something...

Keep practicing writing she says. But why? No one will ever read what I write. I am wasting my time? Practicing violin in a desert with no one around to hear the sounds. What is the purpose of what I am doing? Who am I reaching and where am I going? God,...

Fear follows me almost every day of my life. I’ve read book after book about it, and I have practiced several different methods to conquer it. So how do you get over fear? This is the big secret. Ready? You don’t. You never get over it. It’s always...

A little while ago, I wrote an article about critical thinking where I advocated that people question everything they read. This spurred my thinking in a different direction. How can I describe the way I’ve achieved success in overcoming some of the debilitating...

Okay, a lot of interesting things happened this week. I have relearned a good lesson. I took a job I didn’t want and felt unmotivated, pissed off, and exhausted. I was entering into the same old cycle of bullshit that I had been suffered through...

There are two writers inside of me. The fearless one who says exactly what he wants and the nice and amiable one who says half of what he wants. Now the fearless one says some real bullshit sometimes and needs to be edited down, but every now and I let...