Where did the time go? If you are reading this, you might be like most people in that something about the direction of your life has not quite matched up with your expectations. Maybe you were the academic or athletic superstar in high school, but faded into thorough mediocrity somewhere in college. Maybe circumstances prevented you from realizing your dreams. Maybe the crushing reality of the sheer averageness of adult life has beaten the idealistic ambition and potential out of you. It’s okay. It happens to most of us. The tireless regression towards the unremarkable, unsatisfying mean that defines most Westerners’ experience creeps up on you, as it crept up on me. It’s terrifying. But if you can hold that terror, contemplate that existential discomfort, and use it to your advantage, you can fight becoming “average”.

If you’re nodding your head as you read this description, then this blog is for you. It’s time to take back the excitement in life. If you think the best years of your life are behind you, it really doesn’t have to be that way.  It starts by carefully re-examining what is truly important to you, and discarding some of the baggage you carry solely because society has deemed it “important”.

Let’s start from the beginning. “I think, therefore I am.”