The ridiculous thoughts I had leading up to fatherhood. Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash I was always of the mindset that if I had a...

This isn't what I thought 35 would look like. I didn't realize that becoming a dad would be so important to me. I didn't realize I had it...

Kai is my proof that magic exists. Becoming a dad was something that I always feared. I feared it for a number of reasons. One being that...

Today my cousin Vicky called me at 7am. She knew I’d be awake and I was. She told me that Lefty had passed away. Well she said that “pap”...

My younger cousin is graduating from college. Penn State University Class of 2020 School of Engineering. I’m so proud of this dude I...

I hate this so much. There isn’t one part of me that that finds anything appealing about where we are right now. Shut in from friends and...

Does that resonate with you? It didn’t matter how much had come against you in previous pursuits, you just kept getting up and doing what...

So much can  happen in just a year. It was within this last year that,  first I went bankrupt and then I got hired in the highest paying...

The last thing I’m feeling right now is hopeful. What I’m mostly feeling right now is what most of us are probably feeling right now…...

I’m going to be a dad. And I’m going to be a dad to a boy. Erin and I found out that we were going to have a baby back in December. When...

Don’t answer that! It’s a stupidly easy question to answer. I don’t have the money. I don’t have the resources. I don’t have the talent....

A good friend at my recent book signing looked down at the five books I had on display at the signing table and asked, “How the hell do...

I moved back to Pittsburgh from Los Angeles in 2017. My heart was broken and so was my bank account. The only thing that I seemed to be...

Once you’ve read several different books or articles on success or watched different speakers teach on the subject of attaining that...

I’ve taken some time away from writing recently. I’ve had a lot happening this summer from moving in with my girlfriend to starting a new...

My issue is that I focus on the one bad thing when there are at least one-hundred good things. My mind stretches toward perfection, a...

I’ll be happy if all of the conditions of my life meet the standard I’ve set in order to allow myself the luxury of feeling happy. If the...

I always notice that the posts that get the most likes on almost any social media platform are the ones where there’s a win involved....

It’s pretty hard to believe that I’m coming up on another book release. The craziest part is that it’s at Barnes & Noble. I always knew...

This is not something I am particularly good at. I’m very weak here actually. I definitely would not teach a class on being a better...

I host a podcast called, The Craven Effect, and on an episode called, “The Waiting Place”, I interviewed a great friend of mine. Pastor...

Sometimes we need that don’t we? I know I do. And that’s why I’m telling you right now that I believe with all of my heart that you can...

I just realized something about myself. I get really excited about new projects that I start and immediately want to forget about the...

This is the 200th blog post I’ve written since 2015 when I started my first website. An average post is around 600 words–sometimes less,...