Mark I JOHNSON

Lives don’t drift from one bad decision. They drift from thousands made without the perspective gained from regular re-creation. Most people think life changes in big moments — a promotion, a breakup, a move, a breakthrough. But that’s not how drift works. Drift is quiet. Incremental. Invisible while it’s happening. It is the accumulated weight of small decisions made inside momentum, urgency, responsibility, and routine — without perspective created by distance… And distance

A life well lived is curated (like the elements of the image above) intentionally, in several dimensions simultaneously — balance across who you are, who you love, what you build, and how and why you live. Most people never understand this... They think it’s a season. They think it’s something you get to after success. They think it’s a luxury. It isn’t. Balance is a daily practice. Balance is design. Balance is the difference between achievement that feels empty and a life t

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger! There’s a moment that arrives in certain seasons of life that changes everything. Often it is a significant emotional event. It’s loud. It’s personal. And it doesn’t feel inspirational at all. It feels like pressure. The pressure of realizing that the situation in front of you requires a strength you’ve never summoned before... Super human strength. No easy exit. No delay. No pretending. No negotiating with fear. Just forward. That’s

Why does the world only move forward because a few people refuse to let an idea go? The .8 person… In 2003 I had the flu. Not the dramatic kind. The quiet kind that loosens your grip on the obvious. I was sleeping in my daughter’s room that morning. Feverish. Not fully asleep. Not fully awake. That strange lucid space where your mind stops filtering and starts noticing patterns that were always there. I always keep note cards next to the bed because ideas don’t make appointme