Making lasting changes does not have to continue to elude us. If we steady ourselves first and are willing to go through discomfort, we can break free. “The hardest part about change is not making the same choices you did the day before, period. The moment you decide to make a different choice, get ready…
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Tips on How to Write a Book: An Unconventional Approach
If you’re looking for step-by-step tips on how to write a book, you won’t find that here. But you will find a glimpse into the unconventional approach I’ve taken, and how it relates to your experience with creating anything. “The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve got to have a…
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How to Get Unstuck: The Art of Deliberate Decision-Making
If you want to know how to get unstuck, you have to be willing to look at how you make decisions. “Sometimes, the only cost to experience an ecstatic moment is a decision.”― Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana I selected a corner table in a café off Avenue Montaigne in Paris’s 8th arrondissement. I had spent the…
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Stand Out in a Crowd: How to Become Indelible
As entrepreneurs, we all want to stand out in a crowd of competition. None of us want to be overlooked, dismissed, or forgotten. “Nobody can tell youThere’s only one song worth singingThey may try and sell youCause it hangs them upTo see someone like you But you gotta make your own kind of musicSing your…
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Ask for Help: How to Come to Terms with Disorder
When your load feels heavy or cumbersome, ask for help. “There’s a lovely term in Irish, trína chéile, which means everything’s been turned upside down. The ability to let your experience turn upside down, to let yourself not know, to be trína chéile for a while, is very, very important.”~ David Whyte, Listening in with…
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Truth Telling as the Art of Living
Creativity calls for truth telling. “A lot of growing up is learning to shift the responsibility from the other to the self.” ~ Brian Koppelman (from his interview on The Tim Ferriss Show) “The word integrity (from integer) means ‘wholeness.’ Living in integrity means expressing and doing what’s true for you in all situations. Depart from…