Reminders for myself

we’re always teetering towards the edge of a cliff and you can wait for a gust of wind to push you all the way, or you can jump, but either way, you’re going off.

believe in your ideas. trust yourself to make them. and be confident enough to be seen doing it all. the only thing that will create your fantasy self irl is you uncovering how to communicate like you.

Clarity isn’t always about knowing the details. It’s about feeling the truth in your bones, even when your mind can’t explain it.

we talk so much about “becoming,” but the real work is learning to recognize the moments when you’ve already become — even temporarily.

Every time you're given a choice between disappointing someone else and disappointing yourself, your duty is to disappoint that someone else. Your job throughout your entire life, is to disappoint as many people as it takes to avoid disappointing yourself

“It's hard to build momentum if you keep dividing your attention.”

ambition by itself is hollow. it’s a powerful engine, sure, but an engine without direction can take you just as easily into exhaustion as it can into accomplishment. what actually steadies ambition is curiosity — the willingness to explore, to ask questions, to find meaning in the process rather than only in the result.

What I learned from quitting social media: Nobody noticed. The world kept spinning. Opportunities kept coming. Life kept happening. But my anxiety dropped. My focus returned. My productivity doubled. We think we need to be everywhere. We don't. You're trading your attention for other people's highlight reels. It's a bad trade. Log off. Live more.

Sometimes I have to remind myself that feeling lonely doesn’t necessarily mean that something’s wrong. It just means I have to make space for the feeling.