Steak for the Soul

I used to get up every morning and tell myself; “A man who wants nothing is invincible”. Something about those words, they just struck me. To the point I kept them scribbled across the bathroom mirror just so I couldn’t walk out the door without reciting them. To want nothing, a seemingly impossible aim to lay sight on. Truth be told, I don’t know to this day if I could ever accomplish such discipline. But just the simple reminder stirred something in me. It’s always been the things that I wanted that made me vulnerable. The things I desired, that created...

A heavy heart is a difficult thing to express. To take an infinite, unbearable weight and fit it into a sanely formed sentence that must end with a period... just seems like madness. Especially when you know the pain will undoubtedly go beyond the period. For most of us, it’s hard to find that pause. To bring the rambling inside us to a final point and take a breath.   Perhaps that's why so many of us seem to have slipped into madness. It’s not that we’re crazy, we’ve just been hurting for so long with no one listening that...

Your struggle isn't who you are. It doesn't define you, it doesn't defeat you, it doesn't dissuade you. It simply REVEALS you. You've either already GIVEN UP, or you're in the process of GETTING UP. Let today's trouble be the mirror that reveals YOU. We're all made of something breakable, and yet every one of us still has the power to be unstoppable... The truth is, the only thing that separates the broken from the unstoppable, are the broken who refuse to be stopped.

If you set out to discover anything about yourself today, discover purpose. The unhindered harnessing of your strongest gifts, fueled by your deepest passions, then drawn to the surface by the work of your hands, the song of your heart and the journey of your feet. Purpose is the one thing, that once discovered, can turn a hopeless life with a determined will into an unstoppable force. It is the priceless gem within you, that only you can hide and only you can polish. A gem that can be ignored but not removed, forgotten but never stolen. For since it...