The Pivot Year

Your environment will be one of the single most important elements of your life’s journey, and it’s your job to plant yourself somewhere you can actually expand, you can actually connect, you can most easily step into the person you really want to be.

To truly pivot in life is not to move from one external path to another but to stop navigating your course solely from the blueprint given to you over the years. It does not mean to turn in a new direction, but to first go inward, to learn how to hear your own moment-to-moment instructions. It is to learn how to trust yourself, how to listen. It is

Within disappointment is great knowledge, if you have the courage to look at your life beyond the perspective of your ego, the part of you that is so intent on seeking evidence to affirm its perceived inadequacy.

You live in a world that tells you to work in eight hour stretches, and that is productivity. You live in a world that tells you to devote forty years of your life to a career you are lukewarm about, and that is safety. You live in a world that tells you to surround yourself with as many people as possible, and that is connection. You live in a wor

You are taught to seek, seek, seek outside of yourself, but it’s really what you make of the simplest elements of your life that will carry you. What you’re looking to find is what you’re meant to create.

There is not one other human being alive who can accurately assess whether or not you are where you are supposed to be. Even if you have every external success in the world but know, deep inside, you are not fully fulfilled, then you have to trust that. You have to understand that your existence will not be evaluated by whether or not other people

There are very few things that excite you in a way that makes you nearly uncomfortable with your wanting of them. Desire is so integral to who you are, it is part of you even if you are not conscious of it—even when your ego chooses to shield you from your awareness of it. What you are waiting on is your own willingness to accept the mountain you m

You might want to define yourself by the most knowable parts, the cleanest and clearest self-concept imaginable, but the journey of true self-actualization is to embrace your juxtapositions.

Beginning again requires you to give up what’s kind of working on the blind faith that one day, you’ll find the things that effortlessly fall into place. Beginning again requires you to let go of what’s holding you up so that one day, you’ll find the things that let you soar. Beginning again requires you to let go of what’s good enough so one day,