A short blog about unplugging, slowing down, and being fully present. In many ways, the title says it all: I don’t want to write this blog. It’s not because I have nothing to say - if you know me at all, that’s rarely an issue. I’m also not burned out, cheesed off at the world, or questioning whether I should continue writing these blogs every week. Honestly, the reason is much simpler than that. When this blog post goes live, I’ll be on vacation with my family - one that i

WKRP in Cincinnati, Coupe DeVille's, and the Creative Power of Boredom If you grew up as part of Generation X (as I did), are an older millennial, or even an early Gen Z kid, chances are you experienced something that feels just as extinct as a stegosaurus: good, old-fashioned boredom. I’m talking about the kind of boredom where you’d build forts out of every pillowy structure in your house because there’s nothing else to do. The type of boredom where you’d stare out the ca

At some point, discomfort stopped feeling like a warning sign and became a compass. Lately, I’ve been able to pause and reflect a bit to take stock of my life, and what I realized is that the vast majority of the good things in my life started with discomfort. Not excitement, certainly not confidence, and absolutely not a sense of certainty. It’s always been discomfort that quickly gave way to terror and self-doubt. The more I thought about it, that discomfort is truly the pr