In Praise of Those Last Ten (…Or Twenty…) Pounds
In Praise Of Those Last Ten (...Or Twenty...) Pounds Oh, you ten (...or twenty...) pounds... You remind me: I am not a teenager anymore (Thank...
Bouncing Back From Disappointment: Really Gettting Over It (Step One)
We all get disappointed sometimes. And mostly we follow a pretty simple process of feeling tremendously upset, thinking about it way too much, then...
Ode To The Small Business Practitioner, or, Oh, You American Dreamer
Ode To The Small Business Practitioner, or, Oh, You American Dreamer And as you stand there Wondering About your Search Engine Optimization and...
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So I was doing some internal work a while ago about money. Now, as it happens, I have a pretty good relationship with money. I like money, I...
In Praise Of The Grumpy
Click here to buy this t-shirt for the grouch in your life. IN PRAISE OF THE GRUMPY And as you stand there Arms crossed Managing to look both...
An Ode To The Overwhelmed
AN ODE TO THE OVERWHELMED And as you stand there Late again Because you forgot to allow time to park And the elevator was slow And you left 10...
Among Them But Not Of Them
The Solitude Cure There is no real cure for loneliness. Except to transform it into solitude. Solitude is remembering that there has never, ever...
Selfish, Huh?
Creative people get called selfish more than almost anyone else I know. But I have a secret: I believe that a person calls an artist “selfish”...
Confessions Of A Recovering Perfectionist, Part One
For years I resisted the word “perfectionist.” I thought that word sounded simplistic and anal-retentive. It reminded me of surface-obsessed...
The Snag In Your Sweater, The Ringtone You Hate
While a lot of the coaching and free-advice giving I do is about making sure that you spend at least 15 minutes per day on the creative work that...