Basement Storage Do you think your writing is worth doing – as an end in itself? "It is," I said. "It is the one altogether pleasant thing about it."
Basement Storage Consistency: The Antidote to Perfectionism Creativity is hard. It's even harder when you are trying to find your creative voice. Perfectionism paralyzes us. So what's the alternative?
Basement Storage Books I read in 2021 As 2021 began, I decided to actively read more books. I was focused mostly on books that could teach me how to be a better writer, what it takes to be a great writer, and how to pursue creative endeavors.
Basement Storage What if 5-year olds were racist? (Or how 5-year olds can teach us to be more tolerant) The world is full of sexism, racism, homophobia, islamophobia, and all other kinds of phobias and -isms. But I have never seen a 5-year old that is racist.
Basement Storage Featured Unbroken, Unbent. A poem in support and honor of the people of Ukraine that are fighting for their homeland from the Russian invasion.
Basement Storage Featured The Window — An Unappreciated Marvel The window is truly a canvas upon which real beauty is realized, perpetually changing…
Basement Storage Deeds, Not Words — My Stoic Musings 034 “Those who receive the bare theories immediately want to spew them, as an upset stomach does its food. First digest your theories and you…
Basement Storage Pick Your Sport Before You Start Training — My Stoic Musings 033 “First tell yourself what kind of person you want to be, then do what you have to do. For in nearly every pursuit we see this to be the…
Basement Storage Character is Greater than the Costume— My Stoic Musings 032 From dawn till dusk, we are all fighting battles we must win…
Basement Storage What Is The Point Of Philosophy? — My Stoic Musings 031 “Don’t return to philosophy as a task-master, but as patients seek out relief in a treatment of sore eyes, or a dressing for a burn, or…
Basement Storage It is Better to be Watson instead of Sherlock — My Stoic Musings 030 “I don’t know” will save your life.
Basement Storage Just Do It — My Stoic Musings 029 “At every moment keep a sturdy mind on the task at hand, as a Roman and human being, doing it with strict and simple dignity, affection…
Basement Storage Featured Michael Jordan’s Ruling Principle — My Stoic Musings 028 “Take a good hard look at people’s ruling principle, especially of the wise, what they run away from and what they seek out.” — Marcus…
Basement Storage Epictetus’s 3 Areas Of Training — My Stoic Musings 027 “There are three areas in which the person who would be wise and good must be trained. The first has to do with desires and aversions —…
Basement Storage Too Many Distractions — My Stoic Musings 026 “Erase the false impressions from your mind by constantly saying to yourself, I have it in my soul to keep out any evil, desire or any…
Basement Storage Life is about dancing…while the music is playing — My Stoic Musings 025 “What’s left to be prized? This, I think — to limit our action or inaction to only what’s in keeping with the needs of our own…
Basement Storage Why We Must Scribble In Our Books — My Stoic Musings 024 “From Rusticus… I learned to read carefully and not be satisfied with a rough understanding of the whole, and not to agree too quickly…
Basement Storage What’s So Different About The Rich— My Stoic Musings 023 “Let’s pass over to the really rich — how often the occasions they look just like the poor!”
Basement Storage Don’t Let History Repeat Itself— My Stoic Musings 022 “I will keep constant watch over myself and — most usefully — will put each day up for review. For this is what makes us evil — that none…
Basement Storage Meditate On Your Actions — My Stoic Musings 021 Meditations, one of the most famous books on stoicism, was actually the personal journal of Marcus Aurelius. It was in that journal that he wrote...
Basement Storage Start With Why — My Stoic Musings 020 “Your principles can’t be extinguished unless you snuff out the thoughts that feed them, for it’s continually in your power to reignite…
Basement Storage The Choice Is Yours — My Stoic Musings 019 “A podium and a prison is each a place, one high and the other low, but in either place, your freedom of choice can be maintained if you so…
Basement Storage Live Right So You Can Die Right— My Stoic Musings 018 “Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.”
Basement Storage If Epictetus Was Our Teacher, He’d Say This — My Stoic Musings 017 “I am your teacher and you are learning in my school. My aim is to bring you to completion, unhindered, free from compulsive behavior…
