What I learned reading "Between the World and Me"
Between The World and Me
Complacency: The Fear of Being Uncomfortable
While we all strive to live comfortably, it secretly keeps us from our greatest achievements. As a child, we dreamt the wildest dreams and believed we could do some of the most outlandish of things because we knew we had our whole life ahead of us
Discovering You (PART I)
A few years ago, while on my journey to entrepreneurship, I found myself constantly running into roadblocks and stumbling over ways to train my brain to a new way of thinking…A new way of looking at life. This was one of the hardest things, at the time, for me to do and to look back [...]
Bridging the Gap: From setting goals to achieving them
“The elevator to success is out of order, but the stairs are always open.” -Zig Ziglar Almost a decade ago something dawned on me; I needed direction. I was traveling [...]
Success Through Resiliency
This has been a topic, until now, I unknowingly needed to write for some time. Adversity is a visitor to us all. It is not that we must escape the grasp of adversity, but we must prepare to meet it when it arrives.
College Isn’t For Everyone…
Since the dawn of the Y2K era, college enrollment has steadily increased. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, undergraduate enrollment, from the years 2000-2015, has increased by 30 percent. Furthermore, the percentage of students who were awarded post-secondary degrees have also grown at an average of about 40 percent since 2003. The days [...]
Don’t Let Life Get In The Way of Your Passion
What is your passion? How do you find it? While this could be described ten different ways by ten different people, the underlying similarity is “it’s something that you love doing.” I, personally, relate passion as something that defines you and drives you. Some people have a passion for designing, others a passion for teaching, [...]
