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[To learn more about the ideas in this post, please take a look at Redesign Your Mind, available now.] Imagine that you are doing a beautiful job of maintaining your mental health and your emotional wellbeing and up comes a trip to the dentist, a visit from your...

To learn more about starting and maintaining a solid daily creativity practice, please take a look at The Power of Daily Practice. ** 1. A daily practice may sound like too much regimentation. In fact, it is the path to freedom. “Freedom is not given to us by anyone;...

Please enjoy these 10 quotations on mystery. And please take a look at my latest book, Redesign Your Mind, available now. 1. "The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery." -- Francis Bacon 2. "Each work originates as does the cosmos--through catastrophes...

The current illegitimate mental disorder paradigm, where labels are brazenly called diagnoses and life problems are tackled with chemicals, is a perfect handmaiden to male privilege and yet another manipulation in the age-old effort to gaslight women. It is ever so...

[Come enjoy my latest book Redesign Your Mind. It will serve you beautifully!] Beauty is such a tricky word . Here are 10 prompts that will encourage you to think deeply about beauty. 1. “We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting.”—Kahlil Gibran...

Please enjoy my latest book, Redesign Your Mind. It's available here! Here are 10 nature prompts for artists that will get your juices flowing. 1. "I have gone into roses and have over a thousand planted.  There is nothing like making pictures with real things."—Mary...

Here are 10 thoughts on daily practice. To learn a lot more about daily practice, please get your hands on my book The Power of Daily Practice. 1. A daily practice may sound like too much regimentation. In fact, it is the path to freedom. “Freedom is not given to us...

Last week I put out a first announcement for my upcoming Artists with Appetites Weight Awareness Group that will start in April. Reader and artist Bill, in response to the announcement, dropped me the following email: “I’ve always been a big eater. I’m a big man and...

Appetite is a great thing. If you’re a composer, better to hunger to create your symphony than not care about it. If you’re a visual artist, better to salivate at the thought of getting to your canvas than to think, “I can take it or leave it.” If you’re a writer,...

[Start your year of coaching today!} Given that selling isn’t anything like a straightforward matter and given that it has a lot to do with how you present yourself, how do you want to present yourself? The question is really two questions in one. The first question...