Youthful Life: X

Truth - People spend a significant amount of their lives working. The work environment can be a wild place. Navigating it's hierarchies, pitfalls, and trick question is a job in an of itself. Being successful in your work is not just about the qualifications, talents, and skills you bring but build community, connection, and networking where you are, and beyond. It's about deciding how you want to show up at work, and holding yourself accountable to doing so. It's about finding that mythical sense of "balance." " Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony." Thomas Merton Starting a new job , in my case my first job, is a process. Navigating the workplace, particularly the organizational politics takes times, and figuring out where you fit into it all can be woefully confusing. Building connections and maintaining relationships honestly seems to be the main work that I've been doing with my task orien...

The 20s are all about making moves. There's something to be said about words and speech. Yes, they are both powerful in their own ways (says the guy who writes out his entire life) but they definitely have their limitations. Some emotions are so visceral that they cannot be described by words alone; they must be lived. We all have a call to action, and we choose in every moment of our lives to either answer or ignore it. The choose is yours, but action sometimes is better than words. *I'm unashamed to say that I've literally had One Direction's song "Better Than Words" from their new album Midnight Memories , solely on repeat for the past three days. I may very well be obsessed with it and it's literally just them listing off song titles to explain love - brilliantly simple or super lazy - either way I'm all about it.   *I'm taking this space this remember Nelson Mandela who was the example of what we should all strive to be. His selflessness,...