The Lazy Person’s Guide to Incredibly Productive Meetings
I’m pleased to be guest-posting at the Accidental Creative blog today. Here’s the beginning… We’ve all been there. You show up to a meeting and it takes 15-20 minutes to get the necessary technology up and running. Or the agenda is unclear, so everybody’s spinning their wheels. Or you don’t understand your role within the meeting. Or […]
How Answering One Scary Question Can Lead You to the Life You’ve Always Wanted
In The 4-Hour Workweek, author Timothy Ferriss encourages readers to answer this question: If you got fired from your job tomorrow, what would you do to rescue your life from financial chaos? Sometimes reflecting on a worst-case scenario opens up whole new worlds of possibility. Job Search I suspect many people would simply launch an […]
Wisdom for Artists from Steve Martin
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How to Do More of the Work You Love and Less of the Work You Hate
We go and we go and we go. “Watch this,” we seem to say. “I’m fast. I move. I get it done. See?” But how much of our work comes from a deep sense of calling? How much of our activity stems from our core, our creative center? How fulfilling is our work? And how […]
Why Some People Make More Progress Than Others
Sometimes life feels aimless. We go through our days wandering or, worse, floundering. And of course some of this is just part of the human experience. It’s normal, and we shouldn’t beat ourselves up too much for it. But if it goes on for too long or if it’s too pervasive, life itself begins to […]
Interview with Literary Agent Esther Fedorkevich, a Living Legend
I couldn’t be happier to be interviewing literary agent Esther Fedorkevich of The Fedd Agency. Esther is a first-generation American, the daughter of Ukrainian immigrants born in Argentina and China — and she has that indefatigable immigrant spirit in spades. After breaking records selling Bible studies for Lifeway and then working for The Lampo Group, […]
3 Life Lessons from Winnie the Pooh
Every now and again a book comes along that resonates so deeply, it becomes a classic. The four books A. A. Milne wrote for children, not least his only son Christopher, did exactly that. My six-year-old son and I have had a blast reading these books at bedtime. One reason they are so popular, I’m […]
The Most Counter-Intuitive Advice You Can’t Live Without
A counselor friend recently enrolled in a program to learn a particular kind of therapy. I asked him how it was going, and he told me he loves it. “Get this,” he said, “Our first homework assignment is to practice ‘exquisite self-care.’” “What?” I said. “Isn’t that a little self-absorbed?” “I know, right? That’s what […]
Goings-On, Write On, and So On
I wanted to bring you up to speed on a few things and then just for fun share some videos that have caught my attention lately. Goings-On In terms of goings-on, here and there I’ll be cutting back to one post a week so I have time to work on some ebook projects and guest […]
The Three Essential Movements of Creativity
Recently it was “Be your favorite storybook character” day at my son’s school. Last night at dinner we talked about how best to embody Pete from Pete the Cat. Not one for makeup, my son opted for drawing a picture of Pete and pinning him to the canvas of a white T-shirt. My son is […]