Accepting a dream into my life feels like dating a new love. But how do you make a dream truly work and survive the first weeks of crazy effort and emotions? Every new thing we start takes up more space than we expect — in our day, in our mind, in our heart. I didn’t know that at first. I thought new things would just blend in somehow. But everything I started ended as soon as I was done with...

I was talking with a friend about how far along we are — or rather, how shitty we feel about certain parts of our lives. We were trying to explain why feeling behind in life is actually okay... uhm, is it? Do you have housing, security, a relationship, but don’t know who you are? Or the opposite — you know who you are, but you don’t have a roof over your head and you’re just starting with...

Simple habits. I only started reaching some of my small goals when I lightened things up and simplified them a lot. All those successful people on Instagram create this impression of heaviness — as if to get where they are, I have to overload myself to the extreme. Without even realizing it, I connected that feeling with “doing it right.” I kept piling more on my plate than I could ever carry,...