madison huber

why are you not romanticizing the mundane things? why are you not cooking with ambience lighting & beverages? cleaning with a soundtrack & dance? answering emails with scented candles on the desk & jazz? why are you not creating pockets of luxury?

“... Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life.”

– Hunter S. Thompson

Jean-Paul Sartre, damn https://t.co/xTKtipgoCE

There are infinite quotidian human experiences ripe for interpreting: putting off housework, caring about who I sit next to at a dinner party, struggling to get dressed. They stack up every day. I’m particularly fond of using them to draw ungenerous conclusions: I’m shallow, selfish, lazy, dishonest. I’ve trained myself away from defending my goodn... See more

Anxiety, the next gumption trap, is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure you'll do everything wrong you're afraid to do anything at all. Often this, rather than "laziness" is the real reason you find it hard to get started