I was reading Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird and I related to the idea of writing on what is directly in front of you. Then this blog post from Charlie at Productive Flourishing that brought the world into perspective through a one inch frame:
At one point, I happened to look up. Above me were some [...]
There are no ancients before me,
No followers behind:
Only the vastness of heaven and earth
On this mountain terrace.
Though heaven may know the ultimate,
Joy or sorrow is our will.
Sitting in solitude this morning, reading 365 Tao Daily Meditations, I was struck by the honesty and simplicity of this wisdom. The passage went on
to say:
We stand alone [...]
Julia Cameron believes that an artist date should have a permanent spotin your weekly calendar. I found myself succumbing to a Starbucks-and-Chapters ritual artist date. I don’t think that was the general idea.
Then, I stumbled on Keri Smith’s How to be an explorer of the world, on one of those dates.
Keri has encouraged me to [...]
In my work as a coach, my clients are often stopped from achieving their perfect life because of fear.
I love this quote from Osho, in Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously:
Why are you afraid? What can the world do to you? People can laugh at you, it will do them good–laughter is always a medicine, [...]
I have a number of things open on my desk that are to inspire me to write. I took a cue out of my new book addition to my creative idea-generator, The Awe-Manac by Jill Badonsky. It was to write something about poetry.
If my life so far was a poem. I am not sure what [...]
I got an new desk recently and my husband noticed that I have expanded the work around me to fill the space. One of the things that I am doing is bringing more books into my space.
These are the books that I can see on my desk:
Change Your Life Without Getting Out of Bed by [...]
I often ask clients to create an ideal week. What would be perfect for them to be spending their time doing? The reply is often, does it have to include work?
So often we hear that work is just something that someone fills eight hours with. Timothy Ferriss wrote a book called The Four Hour Work [...]
