Fill your day with Creative Genius-inducing environments and actions. Imagine it.
For clarity of purpose
How to make space for quality to show up in your life.
Letting go makes way for something closer to your truth… which is always more beautiful. Always.
3 questions for easier living.
Out of what needs to be done in your life — work, household, creativity — what do you do best?
Do you account for karma? Because hard work isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
For every big hit that we see, there are hundreds of other products and people just as awesome… And then there’s damn good karma.
Eventually, you have to stop blaming your parents.
A shrink friend of mine said the most common pattern he saw in human behavior was that people didn’t start really living until their parents died. That’s a lot of lives only one third lived. That plague-of-a-condition stymies us from breakthroughs and realizing astoundingly positive possibilities for humankind. It’s that serious…
Friday’s Thank You Gift
These exercises aren’t fluffy Q&A’s repackaged from all the self-help seminars we’ve all been to. These worksheets have some traction. You’ll think. You’ll go deeper. You’ll let go. You’ll take action.
Thursday’s Thank You Gift
Download the Credo for Making It Happen. Fo’ free.
Wednesday’s Thank You Gift
I N C L U D E S A U D I O ♫
PREZZIES! Audio segment: Calling All Sovereigns of Time! Download it here.
Tuesday’s Thank You Gift
You asked for it, here it is: We took the CREDO FOR MAKING IT HAPPEN video and turned it into an MP3 you can listen to on your iPod before you give a big presentation, ask for a bank loan, propose, leave the house, brush your teeth, trip the light fantastic…
Videos! Questions! Worksheets! Your Creative Genius on Fire!
We’re taking a field trip for today’s Burning Question! I signed your permission slip and packed you a video snack. I am thrilled to announce: 30 Days to Fire Up Your Creative Genius with yours truly on The Huffington Post.
A Credo For Making It Happen. Book trailer release!
(For best results, watch this every morning, before big meetings, when you’re about to make the big leap, when in doubt, when your faith needs to be fueled, when you just need someone to say, “You got this.”)
Respecting your natural ability and your never evers.
A sixtroopled layered meringue masterpiece. Layers of cakey meringue propped up with gorgeous goopy lemon curd and fluffy whipped white goodness whispering out of the tiers of scrumptiousness. Blessed with raspberries. And mint leaves. Placed on a heavy ceramic white rectangular platter. Sprinkled with edible fairy dust. I thought the co-hostess was joking when she said that she made it herself. I swear to the Gods of confectionery pleasure, this is what went through my head: It would be easier for me to build a bridge than to bake that mother…
would you sell your sofa to get closer to your dream? a short story about doing whatever it takes.
Go without so you can go for the gold. Grab the mic. Make the ask. Whatever happens, the results will be unforgettable.
how i kicked my time management habit and became exceedingly more productive, profitable and thrilled
Time management systems are tricky beasts. They may help us be more productive, but not necessarily less stressed, or more fulfilled, or more in touch with our true nature. We may look freer with our priorities all tidy, but too often, time remains the master and we get “given” time for obeying the system…
wide-eyed discernment + girlfriends, adored : june’s white hot round-up
It’s time for a random list of appreciation, enduring love and a few trends. In no particular order:
january was…lean + luminous
January 2011 Roundup: Entrepreneurial fire-starting wtih Jonathan Fields, chatting with New York Times Bestseller Kris Carr and my top 20 personal money practices.
the new year word thing: keen for contrast
Do guide words really add to manifestation prowess? Dunno. But they do help delineate where you’ve been and where you want to be.
it’s been very real, 2010: a white hot retrospective
What do you think you’re entitled to? Believing in your implicit worth liberates you to create more value for the world you serve.
november was…liberating, luxurious + luminous
November 2010 Roundup: 30 days of grandiose gifts. And the champagne is still flowing.
9 books for deepening how you create + work (part 2 of 3)
In this new world, you and I make it up as we go along, not because we lack expertise or planning skills, but because that is the nature of reality.
9 books that could deeply influence how you live (part 1 of 3)
Discipline is a tool that numbs the mind. When I read this, I felt like there was a ray of light cracking through my living room. This singular thought changed the way I approached my entire life.
The dark side of minimalism.
Increasingly, we are voting with our dollars, ceasing to fill the holes in our souls with plastic stuff, and living more lightly on a highly-burdened eco-system.
saying yes to your dream: frank gehry + devotion
The moment you say YES is the beginning. It’s not when you give your notice or when your novel is off the press. It’s when you say YES to the desire.
4 righteous bits on art + interactivity…
Why even have a blog if you don’t want to interact with your readers? A blogger refusing to take comments would be like an artist refusing to take part in a critique. Right?
got boundaries? got class?
I’ve spent so many hours in psychotherapy, and retreats, and boardrooms clarifying my “needs” vs. “wants” vs. “the hungry ghost” vs. “healthy expectations” that when I “surrender” to someone else’s “way” it can feel like a stick in my spokes of dignity (and I paid a lot for that dignity.) Such is the foible of Western spirituality. Me first, You next…
making space for creative credo
You just need to keep your eye on your real power source, or you get all fancy and you start wearing sunglasses when you sit down at the computer.
embracing creativity + our longing for narrative: Francesco Clemente with Charlie Rose
This interview reads like a meditation; at least it does for me. Clemente’s longing for a sense of wholeness and completion; the struggle to find his voice and break away from the order of things; the surrender to one’s desire… Dig in.
11 things to do (and not do) when you’re burned out
#10: Wholly embrace the organic nature of create-fry-regenerate.
hatched joy: happy birthday to white hot truth
Illusion-nuking-initiation-heat. Phoenix fire licking my soul. Cleansed to naked. Clothed by loved ones.
with every cell of my being, thank you, thank you very much
This ain’t just a blog, or a drop in the bucket, this is a sacred feeding-post on the way to more.
