I spent years pursuing creative work, raising a family, meeting deadlines,

and navigating a career that rarely stood still.

But the busier life became, the more I understood that achieving the things

that mattered to me wasn't about doing more.

It was about getting clear.

Throughout my life, I've experienced success, disappointment, reinvention,

and more than a few unexpected turns. Those experiences didn't cause me to lose

sight of the fundamentals. They sharpened my belief in them.

Over time, a simple philosophy emerged:

When life gets complicated, simplify.

Get back to what works.

That philosophy became The Seven—a simple daily practice built around

seven fundamentals that help us

move better, recover more fully,

think more clearly, and take

greater ownership of how we live.

My book, Still Here: Waking Up in Springfield, tells the larger story behind that

philosophy—from pursuing a childhood dream of working on The Simpsons,

to watching that dream unexpectedly disappear, and through the decades of reinvention that followed.

The Seven is what remained after everything unnecessary was stripped away.

The fundamentals never went out of style.