“I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.” ~ Brenda Ueland, If You Want to Write Sprouting the seeds of ...
Creativity
The Five Principles of Momentum
"If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum." ~ Holly Near Achieving our goals requires consistent momentum. Gaining momentum is not a painful push, but rather an embrace of inspiration. The pain of being stuck in an ever-repeating Groundhog Day (making the same promises to ...
How We Do Our Best Work
"The road seen, then not seen, the hillside hidingthen revealing the way you should take, the roaddropping away from you as if leaving you to walkon thin air, then catching you, holding you up,when you thought you would fall, and the wayforward always in the end the way that you followed,the way that carried you into your future, that broughtyou to ...
Vulnerability & Regret
"There is this word. Nothing like it exists in the English language. It's Portuguese. Saudade. Do you know that one?...[T]here's no perfect definition. It's more of an expression of feeling…of terrible sadness. It's the feeling you get when you realize something you once lost is lost forever, and you can never get it back again." ~ Alexandra ...
