The real reason you're tired all the time: It's not your workload. It's your open loops. The text you haven't answered. The apology you owe. The decision you're avoiding. The conversation you keep postponing. These run in the background of your mind all day, draining your battery. Close your loops. Watch your energy return. Mental clutter is more... See more

Your comfort zone is the most uncomfortable place to be because it slowly erodes the parts of you meant to grow sharp with use. It’s a velvet coffin: soft, familiar, and perfectly designed to keep you still. You won’t notice the atrophy at first, it looks like peace, sounds like routine but one day you’ll wake up fluent in regret, wondering when... See more

Leon de Smet (1881-1966)

What you do in private eventually shows in public.

The books you read show up in conversations. Your diet shows in your energy. Your discipline shows in your confidence. Your focus shows in your results. You are shaped by what you do when no one’s watching.

Prioritize your time. Choose discipline. Choose consistency.

As writers we live in a strange tension where what we experience is always double-experienced. First, of course, by our human heart. Second, by our poet heart, a far more mysterious cataloguer & cherisher of events. Where the human heart wants to step away from a painful, blistering event, the poet heart steps forward & says, "I see, I'll say, I... See more

reading fiction is so important for writing non-fiction prose that’s enjoyable to read

Imagine your favorite writers giving up because of lack of likes, paid subscribers, or algorithm support. They stuck it out.

Continue writing like you’re someone’s favorite writer.

Why?

Because you are.

I cannot say this enough:

Remembering who you are is how you take your power back.

In all ways.

Selene

5 Sep

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I have never liked the word discipline.

I prefer dedication.

I prefer devotion.

Discipline demands.

Devotion gives.

And what greater gift,

than to offer that devotion,

that dedication, to your own life?

i stay busy so i don’t have to feel anything.