Jared Akers

Circumstances can be shitty…

Or they can be exactly what you need. Here’s some insight into how perspective can change your life.

Tim was an amazing guy, we’d just met and as a fellow guitar player, we started playing together and it was magical. It’s like we’d played together our entire lives and had so many things in common; both musically and personally.

Then cancer took him way too young.

What is “too young?” Doesn’t losing someone stink regardless of how old they are?

Self-Destruction

It was 2005 and that’s when I self-destructed. My perspective was everything good in life comes to an end so what’s the point? I shut out life and everyone in it and sunk into depression and was hell-bent on destroying myself. [Read more…]

Hope is cheap, it doesn’t cost you a thing.

It’s something you cling to when you’re afraid of moving outside your comfort zone.

I know. I lived on hope for years. Consequently, nothing really amazing ever happened in my life.

Well, nothing good amazing.

Before you get all hope is all we have on me, think about this…

• Are you hoping for a better job?
• Are you hoping to be rich?
• Are you hoping to find a perfect life partner?
• Are you hoping someone doesn’t discover the real you?

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