It’s so cool when the underdog wins

January 5, 2012

Even though “Spiderman Turn Off The Dark” is the most expensive Broadway musical in history, a year ago it was widely perceived as the biggest Broadway flop ever. It had somehow become the underdog. In February 2011, a review in the New York Times said the show was “so grievously broken in every respect that [...]

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Resistance

January 4, 2012

I’ve heard about Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art for a while, but I’m only just now reading it. It’s so much better than I thought it would be. It’s also very timely for me with this little writing experiment. It’s only day two, and I’m already feeling so much resistance to publishing. There is [...]

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A momentum experiment

January 3, 2012

The past few months I’ve been following the work of Gwen Bell and Ev Bogue. I love reading their daily posts in my email and their writing has made me look at publishing to the web a little differently.  The first thing I noticed about their writing is that they publish every single day.  Often [...]

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A tiny step

October 26, 2011

“Writer’s block isn’t hard to cure. Just write poorly. Continue to write poorly, in public, until you can write better.” Seth Godin, from “Talker’s block”   “If something is worth doing, it’s worth doing badly” Martha Beck, from The Joy Diet “If it wasn’t live we’d be discussing it for months.” Lorne Michaels, on SNL [...]

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Find a way to make it easy

July 18, 2011

I’ve noticed for a while that all the people I admire and consider successful find a way to make things “easy”. What they do is not easy, but they find the ease in the effort. Struggle just leads to more struggle. Aligning with ease and flow, however, allows you to get way more done–and done [...]

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Show up imperfectly

June 6, 2011

I’m taking a really awesome coach training right now, and today someone in the class asked me if I had a website. This question brought to the surface a lot of negative thinking I’ve had around my website, my writing, and me. The very first thoughts I had about this were along the lines of [...]

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Gaining happy, losing weight

May 3, 2010

In my experience, there are four elements that are essential to losing weight and maintaining a weight that you’re happy with. There’s tons to be said about each of these, but for now here’s a summary of each: 1) Identity Obviously there are many different layers to our identity. I mean, really, is there a [...]

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“Critics Rarely Create”

November 23, 2009

Ah. I love this line. It’s from this post at Seth Godins’s blog. He also writes: “Can’t please everyone,” isn’t just an aphorism, it’s the secret of being remarkable.”

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“As If”

October 23, 2009

“You’ll experience far more success in all areas of life when you dwell in a sense that your goal has already been achieved.” ~Martha Beck “You cannot manifest what you want, you can only manifest what you already have.” ~Eckhart Tolle Abraham-Hicks often talks about how the only reason we ever want anything is because [...]

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