And that has caused me a ton of frustration. This quote from Gary Vaynerchuk is stuck in my head, “The reason you are so frustrated is because you are living in the way you want the world to be rather than how it really is.” All I could think about was how things should be…
The size of our youth ministry. I’ll love whosever comes. What others say. Words. Just words. The future. God’s already there. New technology. It’s continues to evolve and I can jump in any time. Social Media. It will serve me. I will not serve it. My weight. Care not obsession. People who don’t get me.…
I decided to do some reflecting on the past year, on a personal level, and this is a list of a few things I learned. 1. Dreams do come true, as I spoke at the National Youth Workers Conference. 2. My romanticism, about certain things, runs deeper than I thought. 3. I’m a better writer…
I played a part in a dinner theater where I played a lawyer. I had a script to follow. A script lets the actors know when they are to speak their lines. I say a line, you say a line. But, I am terrible at memorizing scripts. Case in point, for this dinner theater, I…
Every year Kimmel encourages parents to tell their kids that they have eaten their Halloween candy, and film it. He takes it another step further for Christmas by asking parents to give their kids an early Christmas a present, but one they know their kids will not like. You can watch the compilation here (Warning: kid…
I just read this story about Kellie Marie Tran. It’s a feel good story that makes you wish all actors felt like this, but Kellie shares something that we should all be in tune with. She says. “In my 8 years as a struggling actor, I came to the realization that the hardest thing to…
I have had a few moments over the past month or so that has encouraged me to keep creating. The first moment I experienced was meeting CJ. CJ is long time subscriber and commenter on my YouTube channel. We recently met for the first time at the NYWC in Memphis, TN. We only spoke for…
It’s hard to give back from a place of instability – Gary V. This statement by Gary Vaynerchuk applies in so many ways, whether you want to give back financially, emotionally, or spiritually, you can’t do it from a place of instability or lack. If I want to have anything to give to my own…
I love a good list. I love checking things off because my dopamine spikes when check something off. The problem with to do lists is that they don’t turn into “to be” lists. The things on my list are not translating into a more fuller life. Just recently, I was reminded of that. I had…
des·ti·ny ˈdestinē/ noun the events that will necessarily happen to a particular person or thing in the future. the hidden power believed to control what will happen in the future; fate. Today was a hard day. Today I gave up on destiny. For years I believed in a personal destiny to become what I thought God had…
