Simple happiness

There’s a tremendous friction that arises when you don’t allow yourself to do what you really want to do with your life. You make a lot of halfway decisions to negotiate your competing priorities: what you want, and what you want to want.

When you try to do too much, you never get anywhere. Focus.

To anyone reading this who feels fear holding them back, I’d say this: fear is normal. I’ve felt it dangling off the side of buildings, climbing mountains, even in boardrooms. But courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s the decision to say yes anyway.

The next time fear tells you no, try answering with yes. Say yes to the challenge, yes to the... See more

home isn’t something you find or inherit. It’s something you build, piece by piece, when you stop chasing the next better version of your life. Because the irony is, that’s when you actually become her—the future you you’ve been running after all along. You root, not because you’ve given up, but because you’re finally ready to stay.

If something that seems like work to other people doesn't seem like work to you, that's something you're well suited for. For example, a lot of programmers I know, including me, actually like debugging. It's not something people tend to volunteer; one likes it the way one likes popping zits