What do I want from life? What can I do to make myself happy? These were the questions I asked myself. I accumulated things, got titles, and created wealth. But now I’ve realized that those were the wrong questions to ask. So what are the right questions?

What happens when you wake up one day and realize that the one thing that always excited you has now lost its charm? It doesn’t bring joy into your life, it doesn’t get you in the flow, and it doesn’t make you jump out of bed.

I believe there are two kinds of people in this world. The first kind are the creators, they spend most of their time expressing themselves by making things. The other kind are the consumers, they spend most of their time enjoying the things that the creators make. Which one are you?

How can I expose my work to a bigger audience? I thought. Getting a large number of followers on Instagram was a complete mystery to me, I didn’t understand their algorithms, or how things worked. I was a complete noob.

So I wondered what if Andy Warhol was alive today, and didn’t have any followers on Instagram, what would he do?

Let’s face it, we all judge a book by its cover. Here, I invite you to help me design the cover of my debut novel, Brown Boy Barely Blossoms. Let’s have some fun!

How many times have you failed to try something new out of fear of being thought silly? How often have you censored your spontaneity out of fear of being thought childish? Consider for a moment the learnings in life you’ve forfeited because your parents, your peers, your school, your society, have not allowed you to be playful, free, and foolish in the learning process.

As a child, I always wondered why some people got lucky in life, and others didn’t, then I discovered the power of “not yet,” and it changed my life.

What happens when you walk alone, you and your thoughts, and nothing else?

We all go through cycles of disenchantment and re-enchantment with our work. When you feel as though you’ve lost your gift, the quickest way to recover is to step outside the marketplace and make gifts. Making gifts puts us in touch with our gifts.

Six months ago, I had a dream: to reach a wider audience. How can I entertain and empower people when no one even knows about my blog? I thought. Then one day, out of the blue, I got the greatest idea.

Does creative block really exist or do creatives create drama to resist work? “I have no ideas,” an artist might say to themselves. So then where do all the successful artists get their ideas from?

What do you do when you have to make a hard decision? You get the advice of the people you trust and admire, you make pros and cons list, and you examine all your options, yet sometimes you don’t know what to do at the end. Here, I’m sharing a proven method that helps solve that problem.

All my life I believed that once I had enough money to sustain a lifestyle of traveling and exploring the world without working, I would be happy, I would have so much time to do what I really loved, and that would bring me true happiness. But when I got that, I still felt empty inside.

My dream job was pretty simple: travel the world, photograph diverse cultures, and get a photo book publishing deal that gets featured in The New York Times. Very specific, very clear, but also very hard to achieve.

You must have heard, “follow your passion, do what you love, and money will follow,” well, let me tell you that’s all BS. In this post, I’m sharing a proven method of how I became financially free, and am now living my dream life, all by starting with baby steps.

This is a collection of biography books that I love, and highly recommend.