by Grzegorz Kieszkowski | Mar 8, 2019
I am writing this from Lancing, Michigan, six or seven hours away from my little home town in Canada. I’m on a mini tour, managing a Polish Canadian Hip Hop artist and I am asking myself how I got here? How does a forty six year old father of two, a teacher of twenty...
by Grzegorz Kieszkowski | Feb 15, 2019
Gradation is a noun. It means doing something in a series of successive changes, stages, or degrees and it’s a trap. Although it is true that Rome wasn’t built in a day or that the slow and steady horse ends up winning the race but gradation when it comes to things...
by Grzegorz Kieszkowski | Sep 24, 2018
I am of the strong opinion that being shy masks itself as a form of misdirected pride. You might disagree, but as a person who played shy for most of my life, I have a hell of a case to make. I think fear is at the root of all our shyness but when we don’t contribute...
by Grzegorz Kieszkowski | Jul 3, 2018
We have an unhealthy fear of fear. We have been conditioned to be on guard and make that feeling go away as soon as it bubbles to the surface. We were instructed that it is dangerous to play with it. It is unthinkable to speak to it and it is most unimaginable to...
by Grzegorz Kieszkowski | Jun 22, 2018
There is always something magical around the next corner and our hearts are always aflutter and yearn to find out what that might be. But we rarely take the next corner. We remain where we are. Grounded in fear. We are very timid creatures. Easily frozen still and so...
by Greg Kieszkowski | Mar 14, 2018
You don’t know what’s around the corner. And that’s ok. But take the corner. The future is unknown but it is never as scary as people make it out to be. The winter always gives way to spring. The economy always finds ways to correct itself and you will always...
