4 Non-Negotiables That Will Change Your Dating Pattern

So, let me just lay it right out there, right now. If you are reading this, I can already bet that YOUR STANDARDS ARE TOO LOW. Why?

Life in Your Thirties

If you’re single, don’t compare your life to the people around you getting married and having kids. They’re not as happy as you think. If you’re a parent, be present more than anything else. If you’re divorced, embrace it. This is your rebirth. Walk with certainty. Be kind to your parents…

Be impeccable with your word.

I’ve always struggled with thinking before I talk. I tend to word vomit first, using passion as an excuse, then sort out my words like refrigerator magnets as the person I’m communicating with tries to understand me. Eventually, I’m able to get my message across. But here’s…

The 4 Best Ways to Handle Anxiety

Q: I worry too much and it is making me sick. It’s usually about things that eventually work out somehow or another, but in the meantime, it’s all I can think about. Is there hope for me or will I be a worrywart forever?

Did You Live Your Purpose Today?

The word purpose comes up a lot in my world. It’s a powerful word. It can pull anyone out of the trenches and give them a reason to wake up before the alarm goes off. Many of my clients struggle with it. They don’t know what theirs is. They feel lost, get angry and…

Let Your F*cking Freak Flag Fly!

Most of my life I have felt different. I have felt odd.

Not like peculiar weirdo odd, although some may disagree, but odd in the unusual and unique sense. I have always left people curious, wondering what just just went on, lost for words and in…

You wanna live? Get dirty.

There are more ways to die than with a bullet or old age. Death doesn’t have to come with a casket. You can be alive and still be dead. It’s called an internal collapse. And it doesn’t have to be an avalanche. It can be a very slow burn like losing hair or being a lifer at a job…

Notes About Life from The Perennial Millennial

Advice from a guy who hates self-help listicles.

1. If it frightens you, do it. Don’t think twice.
2. Don’t settle. Every time you settle, you get exactly what you settled…

Pure Nectar — A Series from the SHFT Catalysts — Thoughts from Beth Derrick

What’s good for the goose isn’t good for the tortoise and the hare winning the race … wait, what’s that saying? Anyway, what I love, you may not care an ounce for. What you love, I may say “Meh” to…

Grief and the Holidays

Around this time every year, mid October or so, my mind turns as it always has toward the upcoming holiday season. It’s an interesting run which begins for me on October 31st, Halloween. The chronology is Halloween, my birthday a week later, Thanksgiving three weeks or so after that…