Purpose & Personal Growth

March 26, 2025/Work, Ambition & Unemployment/6 min read

Reflections from Japan, Part One: Searching for Peace & Simplicity In An Unemployed World

March 22, 2022/Grief & Mortality/7 min read

This Is A Reminder To Live Life

February 17, 2022/Mental Health & Self-Worth/3 min read

Who Validates You?

February 14, 2022/Work, Ambition & Unemployment/4 min read

When You Become Your Work

April 3, 2025/Work, Ambition & Unemployment/5 min read

Reflections from Japan, Part Two: The Beauty & Horrors of Timing, Effort, and Building Legacy

Another week back in 'real life' and I have to admit, there's been good and bad days since posting part one last week. Despite going through unemployment before, I can't say that I ever…

March 26, 2025/Work, Ambition & Unemployment/6 min read

Reflections from Japan, Part One: Searching for Peace & Simplicity In An Unemployed World

So, I'm back on the job market again. This will be the third time I have been looking for a new role since 2022, and as much as this has bruised my ego and made me think I'm the worst…

May 9, 2024/Mental Health & Self-Worth/4 min read

Q&A - May 9 2024

As promised, back with another short Q&A based on some of the self-reflection questions asked by WNRS we're not really strangers. Today's questions revolve around my past, and how it…

May 1, 2024/Purpose & Personal Growth/3 min read

Q&A - May 1 2024

Looks like I lied back in February when I said that I would try to write more; as I haven't sat and typed words on this blog in almost 3 months. Well, rather than dwell on this, I figured…

January 22, 2023/Purpose & Personal Growth/5 min read

Paris Thoughts vol. 2

Continuing from my previous posthttps://viewsfromamaninthe6ix.wordpress.com/2023/01/15/paris-thoughts-vol-1/, here are some ramblings from having the time to self-reflect on how 2022…

January 15, 2023/Life Notes/6 min read

Paris Thoughts vol. 1

The following thoughts are tidbits that came to me while on vacation this past week in Paris, France. There's no sort of order to them necessarily, but it's just commentary on life that I…

December 13, 2022/Purpose & Personal Growth/6 min read

Tyrell Wrapped: 2022 in Review

If I had to describe this year in a sentence? An absolute whirlwind of emotions, lessons, and building blocks for what I think might just be a pretty exciting future ahead. I've discussed…

September 16, 2022/Life Notes/10 min read

6 Years in Los Angeles

Why hello there. I know it's been two months since I last wrote anything, and do I ever have some updates... but those will come in time. Instead, I wanted to write a reflection piece…

March 22, 2022/Grief & Mortality/7 min read

This Is A Reminder To Live Life

I'm not exactly sure how to start this one off, but it's apparent to me that despite how many times I write or say something... I always need a reminder to remember what's important in…

February 17, 2022/Mental Health & Self-Worth/3 min read

Who Validates You?

So I had a mini-breakthrough yesterday after chatting with a friend of mine in the morning... I am constantly seeking external validation. The context of the conversation was actually in…

February 14, 2022/Work, Ambition & Unemployment/4 min read

When You Become Your Work

It's been 6 weeks since being laid off, and it's been quite the emotional roller coaster. I wanted to follow up from my last post to give an update and share some thoughts that could…

January 6, 2022/Work, Ambition & Unemployment/7 min read

So, I lost my job.

I took a gamble, and it didn't pay off. At the end of this past summer, I left my comfortable gig as Director of Marketing for a men's fashion brand and took the leap to become VP of…

January 4, 2022/Purpose & Personal Growth/6 min read

Sticking To Your Goals

So, it's the time of year again when most people are setting up resolutions that they will quickly give up a few weeks later. We've all done it. The new year comes around, we have this…

March 26, 2021/Purpose & Personal Growth/9 min read

Letter To My Younger Self, part two

You may be asking, where the heck is part one? Well... I wrote it many many years ago herehttps://viewsfromamaninthe6ix.wordpress.com/2015/03/25/a-letter-to-my-younger-self/. I figured it…

February 16, 2021/Mental Health & Self-Worth/6 min read

Being Honest With Ourselves

I've been thinking about this question for a little while now... so let me ask: why is it so hard for us to be honest with ourselves about what we want? A lot of us lie to ourselves in…

January 20, 2021/Grief & Mortality/4 min read

Temporary Forevers.

Time has been a topic on my mind quite a bit lately, especially as we all seem to have a lot more of it on our hands since last year. I've noticed that as a general rule of thumb, the…

January 9, 2019/Mental Health & Self-Worth/17 min read

What Are You Afraid Of?

It's the beginning of 2019, so that means it's around that time of year when the 'new year, new me' motto comes back for about 3 weeks and then disappears until Jan 1 of next year…

December 7, 2017/Purpose & Personal Growth/3 min read

Bigger Than Me.

I never know how to start these things... should I be witty? Serious? Use a quote? Post a song? Tell you a joke? Anyways. 2017 was a big year for me in many ways... probably too many to…

May 5, 2017/Grief & Mortality/4 min read

Time.

So, it's been a few months. Tonight was the first night in a while that I've had a chance to slow down and relax. In the past few months, work and side work have been incredibly busy, on…

August 27, 2016/Life Notes/3 min read

Views from a man in the 3?

I guess I'm going to have to change my blog name - I'm moving to LA. Scared. Excited. Nervous. Curious. Anxious. Ready - these are a few of the 1,000 feelings running through my head at…

June 6, 2016/Grief & Mortality/4 min read

The Illusion of Infinity

So the title may be a bit misleading, but trust me that this is not a blog about math. Please continue to read on without being worried about having to dig up your high school calculus…

December 7, 2015/Life Notes/2 min read

Another Year.

2015 - The year I had hoped would be radically different from 2014. In some ways it was, in some ways it wasn't. As I approach my 26th spin around the sun as my good friend Nate used to…

September 13, 2015/Life Notes/3 min read

Tupac Shakur.

I was trying to think of an appropriate title for this post, but it seems only fitting that the name of Tupac Shakur should imply enough importance as it is. 19 years ago today, the world…

August 7, 2015/Purpose & Personal Growth/4 min read

Broadening Your Horizons

So the title may be pretty vague... what am I referring to exactly? What should you be broadening? In short - anything and everything that you have the chance to. I have to admit that I…

April 17, 2015/Boundaries/4 min read

A Tricky Concept Called Independence

So I was going to start this post off with the definition of Independence... but it keeps redirecting me back to the word Independent. Let's go with that then, according to…

March 25, 2015/Purpose & Personal Growth/3 min read

A letter to my younger self

Let's just get this out of the way now: things don't get easier. You currently spend your days going to school, eating junk food, and then coming home to watch Pokemon. Sometimes you make…

February 17, 2015/Life Notes/3 min read

The Theory of Everything

So I honestly wasn't sure if I was going to write on this blog anymore... but I've just been inspired so here it goes. If you haven't heard of The Theory of…

December 11, 2014/Life Notes/2 min read

25 Years Young (Old?)

Saturday will mark my 25th year of entering and contributing I'd like to think so, but this is sometimes questionable to this planet we call Earth. While a lot has happened in 25 years, it…