When transcending from being a child to an adult, it’s almost certain that life turns out a disappointment. All the magic uncle Disney showed us, and the 'you can be anything you want’ crap we were bombarded with don’t translate very well into maturity. I still remember vividly how I used to play...
You Can Do Anything but Not Everything
In the pursuit of happiness, we try a lot of things to find our personal pot of gold. You know, that thing that will make us ultimately happy. That place where unicorns shit rainbows and life is one big excitement orgy. Trying new things is cool, but when you always stick to trying,...
How to Be Happy Again
Some things in life, we get fundamentally wrong. One of those things is happiness. Once we were happy, now we’re not, and we want to know how to be happy again. The obvious answer is to find happiness, and so we go on a journey to find it. If we find it, we hold on to happiness in eternity....
Consumerism and the Lost Art of Creativity
What if inventor Thomas Edison (1847 - 1931) could get a glimpse of how we live now? What would good ol’ Thomas think? I’m pretty sure his face would melt from awe and disbelief. All because in the last 100 years, very creative people have solved mind-boggling problems and made things better,...
Let Go of the Idea That Your Life Could Have Been Anything Else
Remember when life was all about landing your first job and staying there until retirement? When it was about marrying your high school sweetheart and raising 2,3 kids together? When it was about buying the house with the white picket fence? Remember that? Yeah, me neither. This idea makes...
The Eternal Struggle for Identity and Purpose
Who’s your favorite superhero? I bet you have one, I know I do. I like the more aggressive ones, the bad-asses with anger issues. Not sure why. They just resonate with me. You know, The Hulk, Wolverine, The Punisher. I even resonate with Thanos, who took over the Universe to kill half of it and...
Remember, You Will Die
Talking about death falls in the same category as income, politics, and religion; it’s a taboo. Where the last three are avoided not to stir up heated conversations or comparisons, the first is avoided because we don’t want to think about it. It makes us uncomfortable, scared,, and vulnerable....
From Wandering Generality to Meaningful Specific in a Distracted World
Generation Y is the new big thing. The generation born between roughly the beginning of the eighties and the end of the nineties. The millennials, the game changers, the digital entrepreneurs who want to impact the world for a better. The generation that follows their passion. Great times are...