You have to WANT to be inspired to be inspired. It sounds simple, but the desire to be inspired is a distinct kind of craving….
Self Help Post
Make changes without criticizing the past — your future will thank you for it.
We look at how we over worked it, or how we missed the mark, or all the reasons it, they, you, me, we fell short. We start to shrink the value of the past so that we can justify taking new aim, or giving notice, or taking the leap that will move us in a new direction….
What’s your relationship to silence?
How do you feel with quietness? Do you seek it? Do you avoid it? When was the last time you intentionally chose silent time? What does pausing sound like to you? Does the thought of three days in a cabin without music or TV make you anxious or longing?…
This is Your Guarantee of Failure. Proceed anyway.
Let your guard down, take the breaks off, and tear up that insurance policy – it was a rip off anyway. The status quo has been feeding you factory-grade illusions. Sign up, speak up, get out, and get it on. You’re going to fail. Guaranteed. Proceed anyway.
Why I stopped meditating: acts of rebellion + intention
Meditation started to feel like one more thing to do, an assignment and I was being graded on. Polishing my consciousness, counting my mantras, strength-building – achieving. Meditating was becoming a way to reinforce my “goodness”. And so I stopped. And some beautiful things happened…
What do you want… that you already have?
When you find evidence of dreams come true in your current reality — even if it’s a stretch to do so –you take the neediness vibe out of your aspirations, and when you’re less desperate you think more clearly and act more calmly…
How To Visualize Results…really, really, for real.
My entrepreneurial sister and dance floor partner, Marie Forleo and I got gritty about visualization techniques and manifestation and all the misguided hooey that I think gets in the way of truly powerful inner perceptions.
We partied. And we have the pictures to prove it.
Some kids dreamed of accepting The Academy Award. I dreamed of book launch parties.
Reframing “obligations” into empowered choices.
“Obligation” is a heavy duty word. You can hardly squeeze a quarter cup of vitality from it. By it’s very nature, it restrains, binds, and requires obedience. Energetically, “obligation” blows. Strike “obligation”, insert: “choice”. You’ve got free will. All of it is a choice. Even if you have to decide to rise to each committed occasion, you are choosing to be moral, loving, responsible, integrous. No victimhood, no obedience, no torture. Just free will…
How do you say what you do? (Give your self credit.)
How do you usually tell people what you do? And if you’re not giving yourself full credit for your work in the world — whether you’re rocking a cash register or leading a team of twenty — How can you light it up when you say what you do?
A Wolf Called Something
Something is approaching the edge of my land a wolf that won’t back down…
The Incremental Commitment Formula. Realistic Give ‘n Take.
One-step-at-a-time commitment creates traction. It’s about being responsive to reality — it gives you leeway for mutual accountability, for prerogatives to be exercised, and for the self-motivated players to motivate themselves…. and THAT’S something you can commit to.
What’s your favourite piece of advice that you’ve been given?
When you wonder if today’s “problems” actually have enough gravity to be on your shoulders in three years time, you lighten up. And fast.
Dying To Be Me. One of the most powerful books I’ve read.
Some books are transmissions of energy. There’s something ineffable beyond the words themselves, and you know that you’re getting a download as you connect with the text. Dying To Me by Anita Moorjani is one of those incredible books.
What’s your relationship to excitement?
more excitement, more often = way more to be excited about.
The Dangerous Terrain of Unnecessary Dream Shrinkage
The cosmos doesn’t measure sweat + hours for reward. The cosmos deals in the currencies of joy and satisfaction.åç
How To Be Classy When It Doesn’t Work Out The Way You Expected. The Grace of Loss.
Loss brings out our truest self. And while natural grace doesn’t come naturally to all of us — especially when we lose — it can be cultivated…
The Gold Medal Race To The New York Times Bestseller List. Write Your Heart out. Run your ass off.
The creative process of having an idea, putting that idea into a medium: a bound book, a film, a seminar, an app and giving that to as many people as possible, is as much a sport as it is an art.
what would you like to stop doing?
When someone has the good sense and conviction to stop doing what’s not working for them, well, it calls for a national holiday. The brilliance of simplification needs to be celebrated! It often goes like this…
what boat do you need to burn? a testimony to your future
Usually we want to do more of what got us to where we are. Familiarity, best practices, proven techniques. But the future craves more daring from us. What boat do you need to burn?…
what do you want to revolutionize?
My heart has a long list of things of things that I would like someone else to revolutionize.
sincerity isn’t a contractual thing
Admiration. Sincerity. True love. These are the rewards of putting great stuff into the world for the sake of putting great stuff into the world. Hopes for reciprocity? They’re healthy to have. >> more on integrity branding + communications…
you are more (a poem. a prayer.)
you are more than your name your frame your DNA more plenty than all that you have…
Why we (should) change our minds in the 11th hour.
You’re about to ship your product, wrap the gift, get dressed for the event, name the baby. Go time. Launch time. Deadline-to-meet-time. It’s time to make the final call. You’ve been working toward this for months. Money invested in designers, endless jam sessions, deep thinking, working toward THAT goal. And then…and then you look at it (clock is ticking, we’re waiting for you to sign off), and you think…it’s not quite right…
what’s one dumb thing that you used to believe in?
The One Is the One because you say they are. It’s the partner you choose, the partner you declare sacred, the partner to whom you vow, in your own way, to love like they’re the only One.
it’s not too late to be… you. (and why I changed my site name).
Give it your all. Give it away. Your desires are being held in the hand of the cosmos with incredibly sturdy care. Life is not testing you. She is rooting for you.
how to love the inevitable pain of getting focused. it hurts so good.
Grieve for your ideas, the ones that will never see the light of day. Pruned. Aborted. Not meant to be. Under-resourced. Not as shiny as all your other ideas.
a prayer for expectation addicts: show up. shine. let it go.
I have willed stuff into being. Lot’s of it. Will will willing willfulness. And if you dared to tell me (brave soul, you), in the midst of my willfulness, that I should let go of my expectations, (gasp!) I would have gone stone cold, or snortle-laughed you off, or pressed delete. Because I thought expectation was a key ingredient to manifestation. Turns out it’s a major distraction…
falling into your joy: a winter solstice love letter with soundtrack
I am more loving today than I was this time last year. Deeply and evidently so. I plan to say the same thing this time next year. It’s all so precious. And rock solid.
in honour of the fact that life is short: ecstatic sex, quitting, and wearing your best
wear your white shirts. get them pressed. use your good dishes — everyday. shave on weekends. do not wait for special occasions. do not tuck your best away in the drawers, in the back of the closet, in your heart…
