what did you wanna do when you grew up? fuck if i ever really knew. i have commitment issues. what about after high school? i couldn’t make up my mind. when was the first time you knew what you wanted to do with yourself, with your life, and with your time? i knew about 7 years ago when i decided i wanted to take yoga teacher training. during the training, i was asked to write “what do you stand for, what impact do you wish to make?" i answered “i mean to empower the people i come into contact with.

i hear teachers talking about the extremely low attention spans in children these days. i think i got the bug too. i can see myself unsettled and under-stimulated as i reach for my phone with NO real purpose other than to compulsively look at it to keep me DOING something. i see how that stupid little handheld device is owning me. i’ve written about my phone and how i’m was trying to break my bad habit of touching it before but nothing has ever stuck. i think the real change will come after my countless realizations about the person i

step out of your regular environment, just for a second, and see where your heart takes you. my heart brought me to houston to see a friend. ugh, houston is not my favorite. i moved here when i was 20 to finish college at the Art Institute of Houston. i was here because here is where i was doing the work. the moment i was done with my degree, i moved away. i arrived here in houston last night around 7pm. immediately, i remembered what my 21 year old self realized so long ago — this place is OFF. i couldn’t

i’m deep in the practice of letting things unfold. sure, i’m applying a little force here and there but then i’m intentionally stepping back and letting things be while i observe the energy of this world and the universe. this “letting things be” is a BIG balancer in my life. i used to be a perfectionist, control freak but i honestly ran out of energy for it the older i got and the more i grew out of old habits. just like giving and receiving complete the circle, the same goes for effort and ease. your life must consist of

you’re human. you have this inherent ability to constantly learn but are you learning what is necessary for your own growth and prosperity? there is so much to learn about you physically, mentally and spiritually that it could take an entire lifetime — or more realistically, lifetimeS. so is this “practice” of learning about yourself a priority in your life’s work? you learn whether you’re aware or not. first, you learn how to control your body, how to walk, cry, eat sleep. then you learn how to talk, how to communicate and how to manipulate. if you’re lucky, something in

i am a work in progress. we all are. that’s kinda what’s cool about being human. when your work is finally finished, you’ll be dead. so you never have to live one day as anything other than a work in progress. you never have to put yourself out there as a finished piece for the world to criticize. my game, my way of being and my life’s work is to look at every aspect of my life and ask, “is that working?” i ask this with the food i eat, the exercise i practice, the people i keep close, the