Today’s Show Up! Journal power words: sure, you can spend your time envying the advantages other people have. But that takes you away from working your own stuff, from making your own advantages. In the end, all we have is what we bring. If we focus on coveting what other people have, we aren’t honing…
(Today’s Show Up! Journal power words): Make your mind your inspiration and make your body your instrument. That’s how you create, make art, and change the world. All the thoughts and inspiration in the world don’t mean diddly unless you use them to do something, unless you make them express something. If you don’t use…
Today’s Show Journal power words. In every second of every day, we make decisions. We choose how we will be, what we will do, and what we will say. In each of those instances, we decide, consciously or subconsciously, whether we will show courage or fear. A fear response might make us feel safer in…
Today’s Show Up! Journal power words (I love my morning journal free-write. I always learn so much from my subconscious. ?). I have long believed that stress is the root of all evil. And, if stress is the root of all evil, curiosity is the root of all success. Something has to spark us. Something…
Morning meditation. I spent some time this morning meditating on the goals depicted in this sculpture I created. I love symbols and totems. I use them as concrete touchstones of my goals, And I visualize those successes as I meditate on the piece. This artwork represents my goals of writing, music, and teaching. I teach…
Today’s Show Up! Journal power words: I spent my free-write thinking about whether or not I’m too old to begin a new chapter, new phase of my life. I spent the last few decades working on projects I loved. But, they were all too diffuse. Over the last year, I’ve changed my focus. Actually, it’s…
Today’s Show Up! Journal power words. Each of us is an artist. We don’t have to hold a paintbrush or a guitar to be one. We can create art in how we think, what we say, and what we do. As long as these things come from that passionate place inside each of us, that…
Sometimes, the best thing we can do is get out of our own way. When we get stuck, the paralysis kicks in, and we go nowhere. But, the second we ask ourselves what we might do if we weren’t wearing our own shoes but rather standing outside ourselves, the answer shows up and taps us…
Today’s Show Up! Journal power words from my morning free-write. Today it’s about having faith. What you decide will happen often does if you are willing to be dogged in its pursuit. It’s when you waffle, hesitate, or second-guess yourself that you get in trouble. Have faith but don’t be foolhardy. Your goal must have…
Today’s power words from my Show Up! Journal free-write. It’s physics. The more force we exert in any one direction the more vulnerable we become from other directions. So, it makes sense to not be rigid or too regimented in any aspect of our lives. Whether it is the way we think, the way we…