Burn It All Down and Go, Go, Go: A Manifesto for Anyone Scared to Sell Their House & Leave Their Life
There is something to be said about a prescribed burn. Farmers routinely light their entire field on fire to remove plants that are already growing in order to help the plants that are about to come up. Turns out, disturbance is necessary for healthy development. Some seeds are only viable after the fire.
It’s Okay to Be Done With Good Things (And Go Travel & Do Work You Care About, Instead)
The weight of good is heavy. It’s why people don’t leave their hard-won but spirit-damaging careers.It’s why people don’t sell their things and go work from a tiny red cabin in Norway. And it’s why I’m still eating cheese fries, dammit.
Listen: Do What You Crave Without the Guilt. Travel to Italy. Enroll in That Workshop. Make Your Art Every Afternoon. It's the Best ROI That Money Can Buy.
Hanging onto every penny might save you money, but it comes at the cost of your personal growth. (Not to mention multiple pizza orgasms, which absolutely needs to be the name of someone's blog.)
“I Want More Adventure & Whimsy In My Life”—And the Worst Advice I Ever Read On Getting It
There’s terrible advice, and then there’s the type of advice that makes you want to fake your death and ride bareback on a donkey through Cleveland. Until today, I thought that the Cosmo advice to “apply a little Ben Gay to his privates for an unexpected treat” was that kind of advice.
Burned Out from Your Work? Doing This Daily Changed My Life
If you are smart, and you are driven, and you have actual ambitions beyond “beat Princess Beefcurtains in the next level of Fortnite” then you are likely going to suffer from a whole RAGING RIVER of burnout that normal people do not have.
Your Happiness 401(k): Are You Budgeting Enough Joy in Your Life?
Turns out, rituals are tiny increments of "happiness savings" that you can budget toward your future self. And this can be especially helpful when you're living a life on the road.
The Cost of Not Traveling: Featuring Mexico City, Eyeball Tacos, and "Travel Karens"
Family & friends are going to want you to rethink your plans; go someplace sensible, like Florida. But the people most afraid of the world are the ones who have never engaged with it.
We Need More Travel, More Time, More Leisure, More Love, More Novels, More Espresso, More Bookshops, More White Linen Dresses
Perhaps stubbornly editing your life is the key to living it well.