There is a place where it’s best to hang out and see what happens. To sort of just kick back and observe. In the learning process, this is especially true. The trick is balancing this…
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More On Growth
How can you tell where to direct your efforts? By identifying the two or three things you least want to do. For me, it has been practicing my voice therapy exercises, and doing abdominal workouts….
Where True Growth Comes From
The only way to ensure that progress is being made from one echelon to another is if pain is being felt. Not the kind of pain that renders a person immobile, but the kind that…
Anything But An Artist
I’ve never felt inclined to do anything I’m “supposed” to do. “Supposed to” meaning it’s not coming from me, but from somewhere or someone else. I believe a lot of Artists fall into this trap….
Reaching A Higher Level: Understand That Life Has “Layers” And “Seasons”
In order to reach a higher level at any Art, skill, Craft, Vision, stage of life, or Way of Being than one is currently at, one must have the discipline to “chunk away” at it,…
Beware of “Should”
The word “should” is more of a sentiment than a word. A golf ball flubs into the trees. “I should have kept my knees bent on the follow through!” A business investment tanks. “I should…
Social Media: Tool or Threat?
Cal Newport, author of So Good They Can’t Ignore You, was interviewed by James Altucher on the podcast The James Altucher Show. In the conversation, Newport brings up a concept called “mental residue,” which is the phenomenon…
Getting Better Means Never Stopping
Somewhere in Daniel Coyle’s The Talent Code, he reveals that all it would take to get less good at something would be no more than thirty days, or just around a month’s time. Even the world’s most…
“Creative Altruism”: The Missing Link
I was just on the phone with a friend. The conversation seemed to hover around the merits of letting ourselves have our moments of glory, our “day under the sun,” versus being more concerned with…