"I am going to live the way I want to live. I am going to live in my own spontaneity and authenticity. I am not here to fulfill anybody's expectations.

I’m not religious, but I do think it’s good to have certain guidelines, values and principles to help make decisions...Read More

I want to live my life in a way that when I get really old, I look back at my life and say: aaah I lived it, not survived it. | Kate Moss Quote

I want to slow down and enjoy the world around me. I want to wake up excited. Brooke Hampton Quotes, Inspirational Quotes.

What I want to tell you today is not to move into that world where you're alone with yourself and your mantra and your fitness program or whatever it is that you might use to try to control the world by closing it out. I want to tell you just to live in the mess. Throw yourself out into the convulsions of the world. I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't believe progress is necessarily part of the package. I'm telling you to live in it. Try and get it. Take chances, make your own work, take pride in it. Seize the moment.

The challenge: Be an explorer of the world: observe the world around you, collect useless objects, wander around and live by the rule (...) Read More

One month ago we had fewer than 200 Facebook fans. Now we have over 2000. Here are the 10 things we did to create this explosive growth.

Books > people.

Life Quotes, To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Human life only really begins when you get off the treadmill. Many of us have to fall many times to realize how ridiculous this setup is.

Welcome Are you exploring personal development and want to create the world you want to live in? Do you want to not only know how to find happiness for yourself, but how to make the world a better place? Feeling overwhelmed by the world we live in today, but don’t know feel like you have the power to change anything? Do you like art and books and flowers and friends? Well you’re in the right place! I’m Riley Spicer, or Riles, and I want help you create the world you want to live in. I've spent the last ten years working on crafting my own life. I've finally achieving my dream of working a job I love that aligns with my values while traveling the world. But I don't want to just change my own life. I want everyone to be able to live their best lives and for society to make it easier for everyone to find this support. Getting there is a long road. But if we go step by step, I know we can get there through personal growth and intentional social change. In order to create opportunities for connection and inspire change, I create art, write blog posts, share on social media, and create opportunities for community learning (like my book club). This helps us get inspired and gain the skills we need to change our lives and change the world. What can you expect to see if you follow along? I’m always exploring new places and new ideas. What I have to share will be an exploration as well. But everything centers around my mission to help you create the world you want to live in. Right now, here are the core topics swirling around my head. You can expect to see me writing about them, creating art about them, talking about them on social media, and creating opportunities for learning and exploration around them, so we can all grow together. We have to transform ourselves to transform the world As activist Grace Lee Boggs told us, meaning our personal growth is key to social change. We cannot create an outer world that doesn’t map to our inner world. So we must get our inner world in order. This means practicing intentional personal development, but without losing sight of the wider aims of creating wider social change. We must liberate ourselves, so that we can then liberate others. Reading helps us connect to wider human wisdom on our personal growth path. I’ve always loved a good book. I rearrange lines from books to make art, exploring how everything has been said before, but we can still make it our own. My monthly book club helps us learn from the wisdom of others, together. I recommend books that I’m reading and loving here on my blog. Books will always be a way that I find connection with other humans, and I love sharing that with y’all. To drive our personal development or change the world, we have to step into our creative power A lot of people get the message early on that they are not creative. Often we associate “creativity” with drawing or visual arts. But I believe in an expansive definition of creativity. Any act of creation, of generation, is creative. You are most definitely creative. When you realize that to learn how to be more creative, you just need to let yourself create, it changes your life. So I want to create pathways for you to explore your own creative power. To create the world you want to live in, we have to have a vision of the world we want to see. This means it’s important to practice thinking critically about the world today, understanding what isn’t going well and why, and painting a vision for the future. To that end, I explore social issues of today and ideate on what a different vision could be. And as we explore the inner world, I’m also exploring the outer world. I’m currently a full-time traveler exploring different parts of the world, so I’ll share some of that with y’all as well. Exploring different places is an opportunity to see how humans organize themselves in different ways, learn from different people, and connect with humans creating their lives all over the world. How to stay in touch If that all sounds like your vibe, then stay in touch! My social links are all in the sidebar, and I’d love to see you wherever you like to engage with the social internet. And don’t forget to join my email list, so we can connect outside the algorithms. Drop a comment with one thing you’d like to change about the world, and we can talk about how to make that happen!

For myself, I am interested in science and in philosophy only because I want to learn something about the riddle of the world in which we live, and the riddle of man's knowledge of that world. And I believe that only a revival of interest in these riddles can save the sciences and philosophy from an obscurantist faith in the expert's special skill and in his personal knowledge and authority.

Step right up for a little wind your sales! These quotes by strong women will give you a boost as your stare down the barrel of making big changes in your life. This is a bit different from the normal remote work, digital nomad and online business content I share here on Writing From Nowhere, […]