Articles from August 2008 ↓

Young entrepreneurs have a huge potential advantage over older more seasoned business people.

“What?” you say? “We all know that experience is the best teacher, and experience comes with time and age.”

But experience can also teach us to fear; to play it safe by tried and proven methods. Experience can condition us to miss the moment. Instead of being consciously aware of our circumstance and its potential, we file our experience in the, “seen this, done that” category.

This lack of awareness can be fatal. If we take the moment for granted, we take ourselves for granted as well. We lose touch with the essence of our creativity and personal genius — our fuel for true success in business and in life. Continue reading →

Do you think in words and sentences, or in images and feelings?

Whichever it is, your mode of thought determines how deeply inspired your thoughts are, and how much you can creatively achieve in life by acting upon them.

Your life’s worth depends on how you think. Are your thoughts bringing you all you are worth? Continue reading →

Right away we should all dispense with the idea that we are not creative. Everyone is creative in some way, so do yourself a huge favor and let go of that thought right now. Poof… it’s gone.

There, now you can read on without wasting time disparaging yourself. There are enough people willing to do that for you without adding your own voice.

Humanity is an obsessively creative species. We can’t help ourselves. We create stuff; all kinds of stuff, everyday. And it’s not always pretty. Look around at what we have done to — or not done for — this sacred earth and our fellow human beings.

We clearly need a new and positive creative direction. And before you abdicate responsibility for the state of the world, think about this… Continue reading →

Happiness — that simple gift of quiet satisfaction. We long to be happy. We reach for it. We even cry for happiness.

But that is in our private moments. In public, we paste platitudes on the face of this sacred search. We are afraid to show our vulnerability — as if it were a weakness to crave a thing so beautiful, and as seemingly delicate, as happiness.

Our world requires “tough and smart,” so we pooh pooh the search to be happy. But where does that leave our inner longing? Continue reading →