Is Getting Started the Hardest Part?
Some people love a blank canvas, a blank screen, a white room with no furniture… but for others of us, a blank canvas (or its digital equivalent) can be paralyzing....
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Lessons Learned from an Adorkable Black Lab
My adorkable black lab died unexpectedly and from unknown causes on Saturday. As you can imagine, I am grieving. As a way to honor him, my cousin suggested I think...
The Messy Middle & Creativity
Many paintings later, he realized that it’s just part of his process. He almost always faces a challenge, experiences doubt or doesn't like what he's producing and then boom! Somehow,...
The Thing I'm Not Supposed to Talk About
What I believe now is that spirituality and creativity are intertwined, and you don’t have to believe anything in order to access them. They just are. Practicing creativity leads me...
What If Creativity Is the Cure?
The most interesting thing is that I got to have a RIM (regenerating images in memory) session where I got to be the client and my fellow practitioner facilitated the...
Willingness, Grace & the Pressure to Be Positive
It’s a miracle to be free from obsessive-compulsive thinking, but getting there? It is ugly and messy. And as far as I can tell, it’s human nature to wait until...
The Truth About Insides & Outsides
If you have a soul-sickness, then nothing man-made will ever fill it.
1000 New Ones Every Day
Scientists estimate that humans have 70,000-ish thoughts per day. Out of that, ONLY about 1000 thoughts are new and distinct.
Is It a Breakdown or Breakthrough?
For me, self-doubt slows down everything I do, every important (and many unimportant) decisions I make create a volcano of questions that serve as a fantastic stalling technique. It’s my...
THIS Is How You Break Out of the "New Normal" Box
I encourage you to listen this podcast, and then if you feel moved to do so, buy Sonya Renee Taylor’s book: The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical...
Small Steps Are Better Than No Steps
But what often happens to me is that I set myself up to “fail” by trying to take on too many things at once or something too big, which overwhelms...
My Mosaic "Fail" and a Fresh Perspective
While it was the worst possible outcome, it had taught me so much more about what works and doesn’t work. By seeing the project as it actually was—not trying to...
The Question I Am Often Asked (and the Answer)
The truth is that we don’t control what other people think, feel or do.
Compare & Despair
When we compare ourselves to another person, inevitably, we are judging them and ourselves, and unconsciously deciding which one is “better.” This is what steals our joy.
Thief of Joy: Fixed vs Growth Mindset
But when I have a growth mindset, I’m focused on learning and improving. Success is a byproduct of that.
The Queen of Shoulds
Every “should” (or “should not”) is a judgment against yourself. Every. Single. One.
A New Twist on "WTF?"
For the record, good coaching questions are usually open-ended and asked without judgment. They are designed to help the other person (or yourself!) expand or clarify their thinking.
"Show Some Initiative."
To an outside observer, it might have looked like I was dawdling, being lazy or procrastinating. The truth was, I was expending a whole lot of energy trying to figure...
If nothing changes ... nothing changes
What I actually do is help people change themselves. And when they change, the world and people change in response, so, yes, sometimes the external things change, too.
Are you solving the symptom or the real problem?
Sometimes we are so overwhelmed by the symptoms, we can't find, much less know how to solve, the root of the problem.