Don’t dwell on the dream too long. Don’t dwell on what you don’t have. Dwell on what you have and take action towards what you don’t.

And I see now, as I sip this damn fine cup of coffee, that it’s not the being that matters, but the doing. Instead of being a writer, I just wrote. Instead of being a filmmaker, I made a movie. This is leaving Kansas.

I always wanted to write books and make movies but I couldn’t take action. Maybe it was a lack of discipline or just plain fear, but this inability to take action towards what I wanted crippled me. So I quit. No writing books, no making movies, no nothing. It was 2020 and the plan was to download this app called TikTok and make videos for a year... See more

I LIKE LOS ANGELES. It is pretty and sad. It is sad because it is filled with people who were once told they had so much potential. And because the weather is pleasant, they stayed in that state of potential forever and one day woke up and they weren’t twenty anymore—nor thirty, nor forty, nor fifty. It is a city of people high on potential where... See more

A life of potential is more fun than life. Like reading a self-help book without helping yourself after. You get the high of doing without doing anything. A dream-state. In dreaming of the thing, it feels like you did the thing

I grew up in a small town in Missouri. There, life was always going to happen someday too—just not today, just not here. Good things were out there, somewhere over the rainbow, beyond fear. You’d look at a sunset with your pals and think, “we gotta get out of here.” It was easier to dream in Missouri because you had to. Just to make it out alive,... See more

I sip this damn fine cup of coffee, that it’s not the being that matters, but the doing.

A common anecdote used by manifestation junkies: that the brain is “unable” to detect memory from imagination.

MY POINT IS this: You must go. You must leave your state of potential behind. You must go somewhere over the rainbow. Dreaming about it from “Kansas” feels good, but the drug of potential isn’t good for you. It feels good to want, dream, and yearn. In a way, it feels just as good as getting what you want, dream, and yearn for. The same way you can... See more