If you’re feeling stuck in your work, it could be the tyranny of perfectionism. โNothing can be beautiful that does not take a calculated risk with ugliness.โ ~ Alain de Botton “I can’t do it,” my client, Carrie said. “I mean I literally cannot even get started. The woman who routinely cranks out all kinds of…
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Judgment and Journals
Judgment is the enemy of creativity. How do we manage judgment to let creativity flourish? “To keep a journal is to learn how to play. Deeply. Even when a page is recording hard, impossible things, if judgment is suspended, there’s always a surprise or shift. Connections made over time suddenly link, opening and transforming.” ~ Alexandra Johnson…
How to Thrive in Uncertainty
It can feel nearly impossible to thrive in uncertainty. Uncertainty is uncomfortable, even painful at times. โPain is weakness leaving the body.” ~ Justin Taylor, personal trainer I grunted and snorted as I tried to do the “crab walk” across the gym floor. My arms and legs were already blown from 45 minutes of weight training…
How to Make Implementation Easy
Making implementation easy can feel hard. “Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.” ~ Guy Kawasaki I looked out over the bright white sand to the turquoise water. Sandpipers raced toward the waves and then darted back away from the breakers. I was in the shade under a large, blue umbrella, kindly set up for me by…
Ray Dalio’s Secret to Success
โThe test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.โ ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald If a billionaire walked up to you on the street and said that he knew the secret to success, what would you guess his secret…
The Key to Transformation
The key to transformation might be surprising, and might require us to look within. “We make self-doubt mean something negative about our talent, our ideas,our creativity. What we’re capable of. Not true. In order for us to achieve our goals,we have to peel off all the stuff that is not us first. The discord of the…