In these 10, one-minute videos you have everything you need to start – and keep writing – your memoir. Letterip!

“She’s full of herself.” Meant as a slur about one who holds herself in high esteem. I say we should be full of ourselves, all of us. Filled up, nourished an...

Helen asked if I would circle journey with her. Circle journeying is an interactive art journal traded back and forth until complete. I had already committed...

◊ ◊ ◊ ◊ ◊ ◊ Life will only change when you become more committed to your dreams than you are to your comfort zone. Billy Cox ◊ ◊ ◊ ◊ ◊ ◊ Be one of the few wh...

After 58 revolutions around the sun I have a broader, more contemplative view of birthdays, not only those that fall on December 25. “How would you like to b...

◊ ◊ ◊ Get unreasonable and everything’s possible; if you get reasonable you are going to have to lower your standards and drop down to what everyone expects....

◊ ◊ ◊ If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. Thomas Edison ◊ ◊ ◊ On day 13 of a 14-day hiking trip across Mo...

Thou Shalt Not Script, Production Design, and then Rehearse Scenes from Imagined Slights and Conflicts. ◊ ◊ ◊ Thou Shalt Not Plan for Disappointment. ◊ ◊ ◊ T...

I’ve just completed my Birthday Sabbatical. From October 31st to January 20th of the following year I celebrate my latest revolution around the Sun. That it ...

In 1958, celebrated fitness guru Jack Lalanne appeared on the televised game show, You Bet Your Life, hosted by comedian Groucho Marx: Groucho: How old are y...

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“People who create know how to say ‘no’ and are willing to suffer the consequences.” In his book, How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Inventi...

Tomorrow is promised to no one. It’s Time to Live the Life You’ve Imagined Work Your Knack You probably already know what your knack is. Others have observed...

I held a freakishly limited number of meetings during 20 years in the corporate world. I didn’t have time for them. Neither did the projects I managed. My to...

“I mentored people to achieve goals I wanted for myself. Susan to be a visual artist, and Benson to write.” Story: Shadow Artist I was going to loan Susan th...

You’ve been given six months to live. Sound morbid? Work Expands to Meet the Time Allowed… …so the aphorism goes. If you have three months to finish a projec...

There are more truths in 24 hours of a life than in all the philosophies. Raoul Vaneigem I arrived in Cairns, Australia, during early winter. It was close to...

As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself eve...

By using the Ideal Project Team Member Profile, I knew I had the right people in the room when I convened my first and only 30-person, enterprise-wide projec...

In December 1993, I had been up for an hour on Christmas morning before I realized, Today’s my birthday. I was in Bikaner, a desert town in northern India. W...