Myths About What to be When You Grow Up
Aside from indicating that our education system isn’t designed for today’s world, these statistics also show that most of us don’t actually know what we want to do when we...
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The Paradox of Breaking
Our ego (and society, culture, Facebook, etc.) wants us to believe we are superhuman—that we should be able to work full-time (or more), be a great parent, have a great...
The Problem with the "Lottery Question" and What I Wish Someone Had Told Me
You know the question, “If you won the lottery, what would you do?” Yeah, that one.
You Can’t Always Get What You Want…
I keep playing this guessing game with the universe. If I do X, will I get Y? I keep looking for answers outside of me. What do I have to...
Why I Don't Do The Hustle
Unfortunately, hustling is what people like Gary Vaynerchuk say is necessary for success. But what if it’s not?
Learning Happens After the Action
Being in limbo is agonizing. I hate the indecision. Stuck in fear—afraid to go back and afraid to take the leap. But today I decided, if I'm going to be...
Future Tripping for Fun
The future is uncertain. We can spend our energy imagining all the things that could go wrong, which is how we are hardwired, or, you can imagine the future you’d...
Procrastination Pitfalls & Creativity
Do you routinely follow through on commitments to others but put your needs on the back burner? Do you tend to back out of the commitments you’ve made to yourself?...
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....
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...