“Don’t downgrade your dream just to fit your reality. Upgrade your conviction to match your destiny.” Stuart Scott

During my Internet travels I came across a 2017 blog post by Sweden-based photographer Micael Widell. The title: Who will remember you in...

Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls. Rumi

There is a time when we must firmly choose the course which we will follow or the endless drift of events will make the decision for us. ...

“Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice...

“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...

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...

◊ ◊ ◊ Rest. Don’t Leave Home Without It. ◊ ◊ ◊ The Art of Sloth ◊ ◊ ◊ Don’t Set a Clock, Be a Clock ◊ ◊ ◊ Don’t Force a Schedule, Honor a...

From Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels: “We don’t go on because we’re ready; we go on because it’s 11:30.” ◊ ◊ ◊ During my late...

Motivational guru Jim Rohn’s observation is a game changer. The key variable in Rohn’s equation is exposure to clean energy: Thoughts....

If you think “sleep is a waste of time” as a colleague once told me during my corporate years, then you are missing out on one of most...

In 2017, after deeply focusing on my 12th book, The Writer’s Toy Chest, I seriously needed a break. I spent much of the following day...

If you are bored with something after two minutes, keep doing it for four minutes. If you stay bored, do it for eight, then sixteen...

During the 24 hours we are allotted daily, each of us is more productive at certain times than others. To set ourselves up for peak...

A big part of managing energy for peak performance is letting go of workhorse mentality: you must take breaks. Otherwise you flame out....

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