What’s your New Year’s resolution? Travel more? Maybe write that book? Perhaps run a marathon? Take up piano again? Start a Side Hustle? “What exactly is a Side Hustle?” I hear you ask. Well, it’s basically a way to generate extra income without quitting your job.

We all have goals. We all have things we want to achieve. It starts off as a dream. We eventually find motivation and passion. We fight for it. We work towards our goal. In the be

You know you have the talent, and within you lies the desire to hone and use that gift. Yet, after many years of living in a world where both opportunities and obstacles abound, you wonder, “Why the heck do I feel miserable of just being satisfied seeing myself doing what I love to do best in my DREAMS?” Yes, only in your dreams and never in reality!

Have you ever had a project that felt so impossible that you just want to give up?

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Don’t let it make you throw in the towel.

I think I am at least somewhat more productive than average, and people sometimes ask me for productivity tips.  So I decided to just write them all down in one place.

Disclaimer: This is Not an Overnight Success Story

You know you want to write, but your energy levels are low.

The best advice we give is usually the advice we most need to listen to. This is the case for me when it comes to getting overwhelmed. I’m far too good at saying yes. My to do list usually contains at least 5 miracles to perform before breakfast. And every time I eliminate a task that isn’t important or essential, I have a tendency to think of two things I should do in its place.

To me, life is pretty simple. There’s things you can control and others you can’t. Everything boils down to your actions and your mindset but there’s just far too many of you continuously caught up that just don’t see it that way. This is my attempt to clear things up once and for all.

I was left a negative response on a post I recently wrote, it went something like this: “I cannot believe as a writer you didn’t edit this piece before posting it. There’s so many grammar and spelling mistakes I couldn’t help but laugh while reading it. I guess I did learn one thing — not to follow any of your advice. My goodness!” Funny thing is, I couldn’t help but laugh while reading such a response. I’m a writer, not an editor. I gave up on the myth of perfect writing a few months ago and you should too.

Some words of motivation.

I care far more about the process than I do the destination. Because I’ve learned there is no destination to begin with unless a process is in motion.

Our lives are a constant struggle where we try to avoid bad emotions. We try to avoid it as much as possible. However, what do you do when you fall into it and can’t get out? How do you get out of it? Why did you even get into it? And how do you stay out of it? Depression …

Either you’re a writer. Or you’re not.

Your Survival Guide When Motivation Betrays You

We’re faced with a million decisions throughout our lives. Some of these are small, almost insignificant; Do we order a long black today, or a cappuccino? Do we order it from the laneway cafe near home, or try somewhere new? Do we put on the red sneakers or the blue sneakers? But many of the decisions that we face shape the entire course of our lives, and the lives of the people with whom we interact. Those decisions are monumental. They feel almost crushing.

How you can achieve anything with persistence.

I’ve been writing for over twenty years. Half of that time as a screenwriter, which I failed at. Then the other half as a blogger. After blogging for nearly ten years, I landed my first book deal at the ripe old age of 40.

It's time for us all to shift our energy from trying to doing. From rhetoric to action. From planning it out to getting it done.

Don’t Overthink. Do. Balancing thought and action will always be a challenge for many people. When you spend too much time picturing what a project is going to be like, too much time thinking about how awesome it will be… and too little time actually making the thing, you make no progress.

If you’re even remotely curious and you spend any amount of time reading, then at some point, pretty much everything becomes common sense. If you read up on happiness, you know that, in one way or another, gratitude matters, relationships matter, and so does creating a sense of purpose.

Everybody starts projects. Successful people finish them. The ability to finish is the most important skill any creator, entrepreneur, or artist can develop and it’s often what separates those who succeed from those who don’t.

More hours in the day. Everyone wants that and yet it’s impossible to attain.

Anything worth doing brings a satisfaction that distraction never can. Don’t give into the resistance. Push through the difficulty. That’s where a joy that those who stop will never taste.

You have to taste the BERRIES. There is such an incredible conversation waiting to happen around breaking outside of your comfort zone and breaking down the boundaries that are holding you back. So many of you have drawn a line in the sand as to what you can and cannot do. But the truth is, you don’t really know. You haven’t tasted the berries. You haven’t had the experience.