I’m still taking much longer than a week to complete the weekly exercises. But keep moving forward, right? I find that I continue to build momentum even though it’s slow. This week’s focus is on recovering a sense of Possibility. Cameron wants you to lean into your relationship with the Creator. Or the Universe. Or…
I’m writing this a few months after the fact. But like the “week” before, it took me more than seven days to finish my exercises from week three of The Artist’s Way. Part of me was tempted to start over and try to do the work in a week but I decided to keep moving…
My second “week” of The Artist’s Way took longer than a week… Just like the first “week”. It’s not that it took so long to do the exercises. It took me a while to do the check-in. Not this blog post, but the check-in exercise that’s part of the program. I’m not sure why. I…
I noticed it a few years ago. I had to push myself to create. Guilt myself into writing. Or impose a deadline by having to produce something by a specific date. It felt like my creative fire had gone out. And then the pandemic hit and I thought I would have the time or motivation…
I was going through my notes from Seth Godin’s Marketing seminar and found a link to a blog post of his from 2009. It’s called “Guy #3”. The post has a link to a video from the Sasquatch music festival and shows a spontaneous dance mob forming. Seth’s point is that until Guy #3 joined…
This was a productive week for me. I’m surprised. I accomplished many things that have been on my to do list for weeks. How did I manage this great feat? Simple. I stopped thinking so much. Don’t get me wrong. Thinking is important. More people should do it. But I think too much. I suspect…
I was thinking about Seth Godin and what he says about writer’s block. He says he writes how he speaks, and that people rarely have trouble talking. We don’t suffer from Talker’s Block. There might be a silence or pause here and there, but conversation flows. For some reason, when there’s a blank piece of…
I’m reading The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking by Oliver Burkeman. It’s a pragmatic view on how to achieve peace of mind. I’m only on chapter 3, so I can’t review the book yet, but I’m enjoying it so far. I’ve been mulling over one of the lines from the book:…
Four years ago, Deb and I put on a play at the Hamilton Fringe Festival. It’s called The Lost Years and it’s an affectionate look at our journey through parenthood. Recently, Deb suggested we should remount it online. It would be fun to put it on again. And it would give us something “theatrical” to…
When the pandemic started, I thought it would be a good opportunity to get things done. Like working on my playwriting or blog posts. Being stuck in my home should have removed all the distractions, right? I should have been able to focus on my goals, right? Wrong. Like most people, my Resistance and procrastination…
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