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Feb 23, 2023 15 tweets 3 min read
Life flows better when you stop reacting.

How to stop overthinking and create a habit of abundance: We are a society of overthinkers who live in a world of constant stimulation.

Look around you.
Dissociation is as common as breathing.

But a big part of why we exist is to experience the present moment as it is happening.
Dec 29, 2022 17 tweets 4 min read
I’ve been to hell and back and learned 1 thing -

Gratitude is the most powerful way to tap into abundance.

Here’s the blueprint: The challenges you and I face can be overwhelming.

Ignoring them doesn’t make you tough.
Ignoring them makes you blind and vulnerable.
Oct 26, 2022 22 tweets 3 min read
My grandfather traveled the globe, fought in WW2, and lived 97 years to create a life true to himself.

5 lessons on happiness from a dying man. Death well met is no tragedy.

The end of a life well lived deserves grief but not sorrow.
May 5, 2022 34 tweets 8 min read
In 2020 my lung collapsed
In 2022 I ran 48 miles in 48 hours

These are the 9 habits I installed to achieve the impossible... Habit 1 - WHEN THEY ZIG YOU ZAG

Opportunity is everywhere.

But a crowd in the desert still makes it hard to find peace.
Mar 24, 2022 27 tweets 4 min read
Faith > Confidence

Insights from 40 years of creation by screenwriter Ed Solomon Ed is the mind behind favorite movies like Bill & Ted and Men in Black.

In our conversation he embodied a proposition which has been true for all time, just as it's true today -

Be excellent to each other.
Feb 9, 2022 30 tweets 8 min read
Everyone wants to learn how to write

But, how?

19 lessons from the Writer’s Guild for new writers

= THREAD = Image Write every single day.

- Think of someone specific
- Put their name at the top of the page
- Write directly to them

Good writing is good storytelling.

@OneGSisneros
Dec 9, 2021 24 tweets 4 min read
Destroying the Drug of Distraction

4 steps to get into flow state

//thread// Image Attention is a tug of war between

- what is urgent
- what is important
Nov 24, 2021 9 tweets 3 min read
16 Years Ago I Was Stranded in the Sahara Desert

4 rules kept me alive.

//thread// After university, I spent 6 months backpacking through Europe and the Middle East.

On a 3 day trip into the Sahara, our vehicle hit soft sand and came to a dead stop.

The back tires spun deeper and deeper

Determined to dig their own grave
Nov 22, 2021 20 tweets 3 min read
5 Regrets of The Dead

And how to live a life worth dying for

//thread// Image Bronnie Ware was a hospice nurse in Australia.

She spent years talking with men and women in their final 12 weeks of life.

- They didn't want more sex.
- They didn't want more fame.
- They didn't want more money.