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My new book Life Purpose Boot Camp comes out in about a month. Life Purpose Boot Camp is an 8-week program that does something really interesting. First, it explains the relationship between meaning and life purpose. Second, it describes a process for making strong...

Cezanne’s Apple

Cezanne famously said, “With an apple I will astonish Paris!” What he meant was, “Using an ordinary apple as my starting point, a subject painted a million times before, I will make some new meaning because of my artistic vision, my facility with a brush, my personal...

Art in 15 Minutes a Day

Virtually all of us tend to scorn small increments of time and “throw away” fifteen minutes here and forty-minutes there, arguing that we are doing so much already that those windfalls need not be used productively. We opt to check our email, surf the Net, play a...

The 20 Traits of an Artist

Imagine that you could “upgrade your personality” and strengthen certain traits that would help you create regularly and deeply and that would help you more effectively meet the challenges of the creative life. What traits would you choose? Here are twenty traits that...