“When you are inspired by some great purpose … dormant forces, faculties, and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.” ~ Patanjali I’m not sure how or why the world conspires to grow great ideas. I have seen in my own [...]
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Leap: The Universe Supports Great Purpose
Posted in courage, creativity, faith, fate on February 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Leap: Begin As You Wish to Go
Posted in choices, creative process, creativity on February 15, 2012 | 1 Comment »
On Monday night, we began the strategic planning process for Compass Yoga. We’re laying out a solid mission statement and using that to direct our programming and fundraising efforts. With all of the possibilities for our services, we have to be very deliberate about where we place our focus and energy. As we were sorting [...]
Leap: Stop Digging Trenches
Posted in business, career, creativity, job, journey, work on February 2, 2012 | 2 Comments »
“The only explicit lesson I got from my father was when I was not doing very well in school, and he had a little chat with me and said, “You know, there are people who work for me who dig trenches, and there are people who are professionals, and if you keep going the way [...]
Leap: How to solve a problem with the style of designer Marc Newson
Posted in creativity, design on February 1, 2012 | 2 Comments »
This weekend, the New York Times Magazine featured Marc Newson, the most well-known and prolific living industrial designer. Though I’ve been a fan of his work for years, I never knew much about his back story or design methodology. If anything, we seemed to me to be someone who operated on his own plane, operating [...]
Leap: The opportunity habit
Posted in creativity, entrepreneurship, opportunity on January 31, 2012 | 2 Comments »
“For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.” ~ C.S. Lewis In this economy, it’s easy to look around and see miles and miles of space lacking in opportunity. But what’s really happened is that the opportunity of [...]
Leap: The Monkey Mind and The Inner Sage Can Walk Together
Posted in choices, creativity, decision-making, stress on January 28, 2012 | 2 Comments »
When we’re in a funk, it can be tough to pick our heads up and re-energize. When we’re down and out, sometimes it feels easier to stay that way. And for a while, I think that’s true. Every once in a while we do have the right to wallow a bit when something doesn’t go [...]
Leap: We Could Learn a Lot About Business by Studying Coffee
Posted in business, cooking, creativity, food on January 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Last Sunday morning I went to Sur la Table with my friend, Allan, to take a coffee class. One of Allan’s new year’s resolutions is to learn more about food and its preparation so he asked me where he might take some classes. I had read about Sur la Table’s new course schedule in the [...]
Leap: Heat Up the Iron and Carve Your Own Path (in Life and Book Publishing)
Posted in books, career, choices, creativity, writing on January 22, 2012 | 5 Comments »
“Do not wait to strike until the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” ~ William B. Sprague via Alison Lewis Over the past few months I’ve been sending out query letters and full book proposals to potential agents for a book I’m writing about yoga and personal finance. I love the project [...]
Leap: Anne Lamott’s Advice on Writing, Life, and Time
Posted in creativity, time, writing on January 20, 2012 | 3 Comments »
“Time is not free—that’s why it’s so precious and worth fighting for…I’ve heard it said that every day you need half an hour of quiet time for yourself, or your Self, unless you’re incredibly busy and stressed, in which case you need an hour.” ~ Anne Lamott My friend, Kristin, who pens the fantastic blog [...]
Leap: Grow Creativity and Decrease Anxiety Through Solitude in the Dark
Posted in calm, creativity on January 17, 2012 | 3 Comments »
“You cannot be lonely if you like the person you‘re alone with.“ ~ Wayne Dyer On the heels of my post about the value of quiet time alone, I read two articles in the Times – one of the age of anxiety and one of the danger of the new groupthink a.k.a collaboration. Both articles, [...]
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