The ocean is always bluer on the other side

I remember sitting reflectively on the cliffs of San Francisco pondering into the setting sun of the Pacific Ocean…”I wonder what’s on the other side?”

I’m now on the other side in Amsterdam and thinking, “I wonder what’s on the other side?”

This is the longest I’ve been away from home at over 1.5 years and perhaps it’s nostalgia and homesickness calling, but the ocean is always bluer on the other side.

When I do make it home, I wonder when that question will come back up again, “I wonder what’s on the other side?”

The power of visualization

I used to think visualization was hocus pocus—what’s the point in thinking about a future that you have no control over?

And it’s exactly that type of mindset that creates these self-limiting beliefs we have as adults. As a kid, I fell in love with movies and books because it carried me away into lands of fantasy…I could be whoever I wanted to be and do whatever I wanted to do—they inspired and motivated me. And it was this mindset of visualization that made being a kid…fun.

And then we grow up. And we lose the power of dreams. And yes—there is an indescribable phenomena that links visualization with the law of attraction or universe (I think it’s scientifically called the self-fulfilling prophecy)—but the power of visualization lies in shifting our mindsets. Just because we are adults does not mean we should stop dreaming. Visualization is a formalized way of saying “adult dreaming,” and we need to keep visualizing—if we are to truly write the most important Hollywood narrative—our lives.

Everything is a process

Want to build mental toughness? Enjoy the process—the good, the bad, the ugly.

Why can’t this be easier? Why can’t this be faster? Why can’t things just go away? Why am I complaining?

Enjoy the suck. Don’t hide it. Embrace it. Everything is connected. And you just might come out the other side a tougher, stronger, and wiser person.

Just say no

‘No’ is one of the shortest words in the English language yet one of the hardest to say. What if I told you these two letters could be the answer to a well-lived life? It’s an art—the of saying no.

It’s okay to say no—especially to things that don’t give you joy—à la Marie Kondo. It allows you the space to say yes to the bigger things in life—the things that do give you joy. ‘No’ could be the most powerful word in the English language—the word that could open up doors for you to say Yes to that thing, that opportunity, or that person who could change your life.