🚐🏍️🌴Dirt bike racer. Marketing pro. Award-winning journalism professor.🤙Alumna @NewhouseSU @USouthFlorida #amwriting
Surprise, AZ
Joined March 2009
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Skills that have nothing to do with money but are worth serious practice:
Charisma.
Reading your own thinking.
Critical thinking.
Sitting with discomfort.
Saying clearly what you believe and why.
Changing your mind when the evidence changes.
Almost nobody actually trains these. It shows.
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Dopamine from information gathering is a dangerous drug. Get your dopamine from action.
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Write more. Write to think. Write until you're no longer confused. Write about the problems you already solved. Write for the person you were 2 years ago. Write so you never lose what took you years to figure out. A simple writing habit can change absolutely everything.
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The more you help others the calmer your mind will be. You will be able to overcome misdeeds committed in relation to others. Familiarizing your mind with kindness and compassion yields peace of mind, which makes you happier and even improves your physical health.
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My dream life has gotten progressively less impressive the older I get. Honestly, all I want is to be surrounded by trees, books, art, animals, good food, endless coffee, a peaceful home and people I can be completely uninteresting around. Basically a life that doesn’t look like much from the outside but feels like a warm hug from the inside.
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"Playing it safe isn't actually safe. You're just trading the chance of winning for the guarantee of nothing."
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Must-read article for anyone whose job involves *thinking*
nytimes.com/2026/08/04/opini…
"The problem with writing with A.I. is that it’s mentally enfeebling...
What, uniquely, does writing do? ... It compels thinking in ways that silent contemplation or spoken language rarely can."
Jenn Sheppard retweeted
The #1 thing everyone should do in their youth is get close to the people you want to be like. Because you learn more by being around and the closer you get, the more opportunity you get
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This line from Atomic Habits isn't ready to leave my head:
"It doesn't make sense to continue wanting something if you're not willing to do what it takes to get it. If you don't want to live the lifestyle, then release yourself from the desire. To crave the result but not the process is to guarantee disappointment."
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Nobody knows you better than yourself. I have no idea why so many of you are listening to other people's opinions about your dreams when they're not even going for theirs.
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“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains; it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” - C.S. Lewis
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"An inch of movement will bring you closer to your goals than a mile of intention."
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“Speak to your children as if they are the wisest, kindest, most beautiful and magical humans on earth, for what they believe is what they will become.”
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Writing is rehab for curiosity.
"One of the great gifts of being a writer is that it can help you get your curiosity restored."
"They stopped grading for curiosity in first grade, and a lot of us put it away because it wasn't really encouraged. Being good at long division was more of a value when we were coming up."
"Deciding to be a writer and carrying an index card or your phone means you have decided you're gonna start paying attention again."
-Anne Lamott
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Do everything you can to maximize neuroplasticity.
New restaurants. New cafes. New seat in the cafe. New music. New workouts. New hobbies. New languages. New countries.
Yes, consistency is important, but if you want to access new thinking and creativity, you have to have new experiences, and you have to have them often.
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Idk who needs to hear this but the first step to making good content is making bad content and not caring.
(after thousands of posts and videos I still need to hear this)
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You only have so much emotional energy each day. It’s not an unlimited supply. It takes a lot of energy to get upset, to live offended, to think about what they said, to try to straighten them out. That’s energy you need for your dreams, to pursue your goals, to enjoy your family. Don’t spend it on things that don’t matter.
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Every entrepreneur's day should have:
- A workout
- 3 hours of 'genius'
- A big, healthy lunch
- A small, healthy dinner
- A few pages of reading
- Time with partner/friends
- Some time outside
- Some time alone
Do these eight things daily & you're probably ahead of 95% of the population.
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In my early 20s, I wrote a list of ambitious things I wanted to do in life. Go bungee jumping. Create a movie. Start a business. That sort of thing. I did a few of them, but not most.
Looking back, however, that list was incredibly valuable because it taught me the usefulness of chasing bold ideas—even if they never materialize. The dreams that didn't happen changed shape and led me down other interesting paths.
The important thing isn't to achieve all your dreams, but to keep dreaming. Your desires change as you learn and grow. Old dreams will spawn new dreams. And eventually, one of these newer, more refined visions will find its moment and become reality.
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"In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life,—no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature