I used to think creativity was something fixed. Like you either had it or you didn’t. Some people just knew  what they were good at, and I felt like I was still trying to figure that out. What changed for me was how I started approaching things. I stopped treating everything like something I needed to get through. Especially with school. Instead of rushing to finish assignments, I started asking myself how I could make them more interesting for me. And the truth is, you have

I don’t think “later” is about not believing in yourself. If anything, I’ve realized it’s the opposite. There were things I knew I could do, things I believed I had a real chance at—like my internship at Amazon or applying for the Aubrey Webster Award. I didn’t hold back because I thought I wasn’t good enough. I held back because it was easier to wait. “Later” is where procrastination hides. It makes everything feel less urgent, less real. You tell yourself you’ll do it when

Learning the power of now I used to think my life was always somewhere else. In the next city, the next plan, the next version of myself. I would be sitting in one place, already thinking about where I needed to go next. Like the present moment was just something to pass through, not something to actually be in. And I didn’t even realize I was doing it. Moving from Athens to Paris, then Madrid, and now Miami—every place taught me something different. New people, new routines,