“Say who you are, really say it in your life and in your work.” ~ Charlie Kaufman What is the single biggest obstacle in the way of your success and/or personal happiness? I asked my audience and the prevailing themes were vulnerability, having the courage to be our true selves, and prying off the sticky expectations of…
creative process
How to Fuel Your Desire to Create
Fuel your desire to create by returning to whatever fills the well of inspiration. To whatever feels like play. To the work you’d do all day for free. “Discipline is much easier when it’s fueled by desire.” ~ Austin Kleon A new client texted me the other day and asked for an emergency coaching session. She…
How Creativity Heals
“The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.” ~ Auguste Rodin A few weeks ago, I switched gears from doing book rewrites and edits to writing my book proposal. I developed…
How to Get What We Crave
How to get what we crave involves paring down, getting clear, and letting ourselves see what is true for us. “This was the practice: I was starting to get rid of my possessions, at least the useless ones, because possessions stood between me and death. They didn’t protect me from death, but they created a…
Sprouting the Seeds of Inspiration
Sprouting the seeds of inspiration requires that we fill our days with authentic, joyful experiences that make us feel alive. “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…
Vulnerability & Regret
Vulnerability comes before courage and confidence. Reaching our destinies requires that we embrace and feel the very emotions we want to hide. “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…