Make Your Own Change

Maybe your boyfriend (or girlfriend) just broke up with you. Or worse, your spouse left you. You lost your job. Or your house. Trying to quit smoking is killing you.
First of all, I want to say that I am sorry about whatever it is that makes life seem completely pointless, or whatever is that makes [...]

Imagine if everyone picked up after themselves. Imagine if everyone pulled their own weight as much as they could, and helped others at every opportunity they had. Imagine a friendly community where you know the people you see at the coffee shop every day. Maybe you live in a place you can truly call a [...]

Ah, the oh-so-common complaint is that life isn’t all that we want it to be. It’s too boring, it’s not interesting, we’re stuck in a rut. Why do you think that is?
Because, by choosing to do nothing about it, you are choosing to let life be boring. When you decide not to ever take risks, [...]

Music speaks to me loudly quite often. There’s a great song by the band Superchic[k] called “We Live”, and it talks about living every moment like you could die at any minute.
I encourage you to give it a listen and take it to heart.

Curiosity is a strange motivator. It makes us do strange things at times. Sometimes, the strange things curiosity makes us do gets us into trouble. At the same time, who would want to live without curiosity?
Curiosity fuels our desire for knowledge. We learn because we want to know, we want answers to our questions. If [...]

Here’s a novel concept: treat the random people you meet day in and day out like, well, real people.
Don’t objectify the girl behind the counter making your sandwich as just a sandwich maker. She has a life, relationships, hopes, hobbies and dreams. Treat her as such. She may be having a rough day. Say “please” [...]

Originality and creativity are severely lacking in today’s society. How do I know? We’re all trying to slum by at the lowest common denominator, insisting we all go at the pace of the slowest person, and somehow we’re all okay with that. It’s usually in the name of “equal opportunity” and “fairness”.
I think that we [...]

It’s a backwards philosophy – serve yourself by serving others. You don’t have to be a hermit or give up all your possessions to do this. It’s nothing drastic.
The idea is this: by being a better person, you will be happier.
Makes sense, right? Maybe we feel useless and like our lives are pointless because, well, [...]