Personal Development

As creative people, we are learning our way through this life together. Here you’ll find nerdy insights from my own creative journey as well as my reflections and research on topics ranging across self-development, mindset, career, and wellness.

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Destigmatizing Mental Health for Your Creative Life

One of the most misunderstood pieces of life—mental health. Today, let’s rework how we see mental health to better our overall health and creative lives.

Why It’s OK to Let Go of Who You Thought You’d Be By Now

Life happens in mysterious ways. Sometimes we need to surrender to it, accept where we’ve been already, and set a new path forward from where we are today.

Why Motivation Always Follows Discipline

Motivation doesn’t just happen. It takes work. The first steps? A little bit of courage and the discipline to see yourself through.

How to Stop Overscheduling Your Creative Life and Reclaim Your Time

The world demands a lot from us. We fill our schedules and often have no time left to spend on ourselves. This is how we reclaim our time.

Looking Back on the Critical First Move I Made to Defeat My Own Burnout (7 Years Later)

7 years ago I burned out. Here’s the first step I took to get out of it and some key lessons I’ve learned since.

How to Leverage the Power of Therapy to Completely Transform Your Creative Life

Mental health is physical health. And therapy is one tool to help you maintain it. Today, let’s talk about therapy, what it is, and how you can benefit from it as a creative pro.

Architecture

As an Architect by trade, I’ve written a lot about the profession I love. In a previous life, I wrote a blog called Evolving Architect. These are the greatest hits from my time then, updated with new research and reflections.

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