The Graffiti Machine

120 - Master the Mundane

Apr 25, 2024

How to you treat the mundane tasks in your life? It's often easy to half-ass the basic tasks that seem meaningless, but how does that look to those around you? How does it look to your own subconscious?

There are lots of phrases that talk about this kind of thing. How you do one thing is how you do everything comes to...

119: Celebrate Their Wins

Apr 21, 2024

Something I've been trying to change about my mindset is when I hear about someone else's success when it's greater than what I've accomplished, I often allow that to make me feel bad about my own success. On the flip side, when I hear about someone failing, I often feel better about my situation.

Both of these feel...

118 - The Good Old Days

Apr 11, 2024

On my way to the shop yesterday, I was thinking about the 'good old days'. It was sparked when I did a style of graffiti that I hadn't done in close to 30 years. The 70+ comments on the piece on Instagram got me thinking about things like nostalgia and hanging onto the past.

Then a famous and profound quote came to...

117 - In Search of a Stress Free Life

Apr 6, 2024

I wanted to share a quote from the book Thick Face Black Heart on page 141.

This chapter talks about if we had the ability to remove all negative experiences from our lives, it would not make us stress free or happy.

"The absence of negative experiences in our life does not alone contribute to the quality of our life....

116 - The Time Will Pass Anyway

Mar 29, 2024

Something I need to remind myself of regularly is that the time is going to pass one way or the other. What I mean by this is, the timeline is ticking away whether or not we do what we need to do. For example, if we want to get in better shape, start a business, scale a business, learn a skill, etc., and we put it off,...