Tools, Fuel, & Steering Instructions
to Make a Life You Believe In
Denise Urena over at Nurturing Creativity offers grounded insight into creativity and artistry and an active community of readers and commenters. When she wrote about how labels can weaken our creativity, I had to chime in with contrary advice. Labels? I love playing with labels, or as I call them, roles. More labels please! Denise
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I can hear the lapping waters against the dinghy I imagine my life to be right now. A year ago I was in free fall, and today, the day my divorce becomes official, I can barely see the distant shore of what was once my marriage. I am quietly floating, headed toward some new country
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Look into the unknown future and make a wish. It’s one of the best ways I know to build a clear picture of what’s really important to you. And having that picture helps you focus on the present. Every year I gather with a group of friends, colleagues, and students in a year-ending-and-beginning ritual. Here’s
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Earlier this week, a bunch of us got on the internet and watched me give a presentation on How to Focus on What’s Best during the Holidays. In case you missed it, here’s the buried lede: I’m taking a break for the next 2 weeks. That means your next Pilot Fire article will appear in the new
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It’s still true that I’ll send $10 to a charity of your choice. There are even bigger prizes if you just take a few minutes to answer this question: How do you stay focused on what’s important during the holiday season? Click here to get your goodies. This is not one of my more spectacular
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On July 19, 2012 I declared, my life is balanced and it’s time to mess all that up to live a bigger dream. What the hell was I thinking? Now 3 months into David Delp’s Kicking Ass Plan for the Year I’m feeling the gravity of my decisions and confronting the ramifications of the rigid rules I
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There’s nothing more helpful to balance and focus than planning your week. It’s Monday morning, so if you haven’t made your Week’s Plan yet, let’s go ahead and do it together. It’ll take less than 20 minutes. Bare with me; I’m writing from the land of Didactica today. Surrender to the process and it will
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Generally speaking, rigid rules are for small-minded, scaredy cats. And so, for my Plan to Stop Sucking and Kick Ass I made a few rigid rules. For one, I’m giving up TV for a year. To me that means no video at all: no Netflix, no Hulu, no Daily Show, no porn, no random TED talks, no
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They hand me my shadow and my bricks of gold, I leave, not disappointed or disenchanted, I need my way without them, I’m feeling old, It’s time to get on with that thing I said I wanted. To not be disappointed or disenchanted Is a fairly recent development if you consider all the years I
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My goodness, I’ve achieved balance! Yes, I write about how impossible that is, but I have arrived, and the funny thing— it’s not enough! I’m sick of being pretty darn good at a lot of things and not great at anything. My life is a mile wide and an inch deep. I want to live more
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