Mich 🧭

Storyteller at heart, fueled by coffee & a love for words
Asian millennial • Pre-T trans guy
👇 Join me on this journey of figuring Life out

[Mich 🧭 @becomingmich]

Work like you're the most selfish person on earth, but give like you're the most generous.

[Mich 🧭 @becomingmich]

You should get sick more often.

Not to curse anyone, but every time I fall sick, I come out of it with more motivation, a clearer conviction, and greater gratitude for my health.

Just saying.

[Mich 🧭 @becomingmich]

Start being boring and live:

Breathe.
Touch grass.
Hug your mom.
Start writing that book.
Celebrate every moment you exist.

[Mich 🧭 @becomingmich]

Don't wait till the end to realise that for all the things you could have told, it was your own life story that you chose to ignore.

[Mich 🧭 @becomingmich]

Don't wait till the end to write your story.

[Mich 🧭 @becomingmich]

You've experienced yourself go through every single moment of change and growth you've personally encountered.

And you're still present for more.

That's not nothing.

[Mich 🧭 @becomingmich]

Watched a grandpa carry his grandchild. I felt the care in his hands. The steadiness.

I must have been held like that once. Before I could remember it. Before I understood what safety was.

Sometimes the body remembers the love, even if the mind can't.

[Mich 🧭 @becomingmich]

What can we learn from Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey:

You already know the art you’re creating is going to be criticised.

But you make it anyway.

[Mich 🧭 @becomingmich]

The only way to be present is by being in the present.

[Mich 🧭 @becomingmich]

But if thinking about death encourages gratitude and reminds us all that our time in this world is limited, then yes, think about death. You'll be manifesting gratitude and agency and all the good things that come with that.

[Mich 🧭 @becomingmich]

I've learned to think about death everyday.

And before you come at me with wide open eyes, horror struck, saying "why on earth are you manifesting death and thinking about it?!" Stop.

[Mich 🧭 @becomingmich]

You can't manifest death, death is coming for us all. You think every breath you breath in gives you life? No, it really only brings you closer to death.

[Mich 🧭 @becomingmich]

find your Centre.
craft your Narrative.
stack your Skills.

[Mich 🧭 @becomingmich]

As with a hitchhiker navigating their way with a compass, you need your own Life Compass to navigate through life.

[Mich 🧭 @becomingmich]

In another month I will embark on the path towards my childhood dream of becoming a full time writer.

Life has a weird way of saying “this is what you’re meant to do”. Everything in the past was practice. Everything in the future will be practice. But this time, with purpose.

[Mich 🧭 @becomingmich]

Publish insights, not information.

I'm not in the information publishing business, I'm in the insight publishing business.

[Mich 🧭 @becomingmich]

Finding work you care about, is easier than finding a reason to care.