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  • Playground for the Mind

    5 minute read

    Why you should keep a journal and how to get started.

    Article
  • Making Meaningful Chunks of Words in Digital Content

    9 minute read

    Three ways to create meaningful units of words that compel audiences to savor your content.

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  • The Long Winding Road to Your Voice

    9 minute read

    Each of has a voice waiting to be discovered if we can overcome the nefarious behaviors of Resistance.

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  • Reflections on 2022

    3 minute read

    How do you measure success: volume or Quality?

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  • Content = Ideas + Writing + Form

    3 minute read

    Breaking content down into its atomic parts and examining how they work together to create an experience.

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  • The Practicing Artist

    5 minute read

    11 Principles for Crafting your Life as a Work of Art

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  • Data Storytelling

    7 minute read

    A primer on how to weave data and narrative into a compelling argument that connects real humans to ideas.

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  • 5 Ways to Improve Your Writing

    2 minute read

    Like most writing, the real work comes in revision. Use these 5 ways to rapidly improve any writing project.

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  • The Residue of the Past

    10 minute read

    While all the collected events of this life and others coalesce to make the unique you, you don’t have to be a victim of other people’s choices. Shedding the residue of the past is much easier than you think.

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  • How to Hug Your Fear

    6 minute read

    Four simple techniques to develop a level of intimacy with the things that make you scream.

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  • The Watterson "Rules"

    9 minute read

    Four simple rules to guide your creative endeavors as drawn from the career of Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes.

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  • Don't Hack Your Life to Death

    5 minute read

    Instead, use these three questions to create sustainable learning systems.

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  • On the Imperfect Start

    4 minute read

    Just get going with what you have right now.

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  • 4 Activities to Identify What Stirs Your Soul

    4 minute read

    Reconnect your inner essence with your outer actions to reveal your authentic self.

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  • Slow Down? Yeah, right.

    13 minute read

    Sometimes to go fast, you’ve got to go slow. Four approaches for restoring life’s natural pace.

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  • The Disciplined Writer

    5 minute read

    How David Sedaris approaches to writing to get a little bit better every day

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  • Tell Great Stories

    12 minute read

    “The universe is made of stories, not atoms.” ~Muriel Rukeyser

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  • The Art of Soul

    17 minute read

    Aligning your outer actions with your inner essence.

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  • How to Be New

    17 minute read

    Continuous learning is a prerequisite for growth.

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  • Enlivening Your Creative Practice

    8 minute read

    Five actions you can take to get closer to mastery of your art

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  • On Creative Practice, Part 2: Structure, Just Enough

    8 minute read

    How systems create structure, which produces habits, so you can be your most creative self.

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  • On Creative Practice, Part 1: Overcoming Fear

    8 minute read

    Beating fear as the first step toward building a creative practice.

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  • A New (Old) Definition of the Word Art

    5 minute read

    Stop objectifying art and focus on the work instead.

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