Are you locked into the same ol’/same ol’? Maybe it’s time to shake it up!
Creativity is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope. You look at a set of elements, the same ones everyone else sees, but then reassemble those floating bits and pieces into an enticing new possibility.
— Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Kaleidoscopes are some of my favorite toys – I have a modest little collection, nothing too special but very fun! Some of them have “stuff” that gets re-scattered with every turn, one has fluids that move and change. But the ones I like the very best are actually inexpensive plastic, fist-sized toys with prism lenses
that refract the real world into crazy mixed-up images – with every turn, my world bends into hundreds of tiny daffy images – very cool!
Recently I heard about an “artist and Dad the second time round,” named Raghava KK and his new iPad app for Continue reading » Shake It UP!
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
— Ernest Hemingway
I love stories.
I’ve been making my way, very slowly, through Michael Yapko’s Hand-Me-Down Blues
. As with most good books on a specific topic, Yapko uses stories to illustrate his points. The minute he starts telling about a person or a family, I’m hooked. The thing is that these stories are carefully crafted to Continue reading » Seeing Things Differently
Do you have a second story?
Do the one thing you think you cannot do.
Fail at it.
Try again.
Do better the second time.
— Oprah Winfrey
Before I got even a glimpse of Robb North’s intriguing Flickr photo – featured above – I saw its descriptive title, “second Story”, and that sent me off on a delightful mind-trip imagining all sorts of second stories ala Paul Harvey’s “the rest of the story”. (You DO remember Paul Harvey, don’t you? If not, here’s a link: Rest of the Story)
I was barreling down my convoluted contemplation of “seconds” when I Continue reading » second Story
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
— Dalai Lama
In the Epilogue to Better Than Good: Creating the Life You Can’t Wait to Live
, Zig Ziglar said that a very long time ago, he learned the answer to the question, “What would you change in your life if you had it to live over?” When asked this, one woman replied that she wouldn’t change anything because that meant that she wouldn’t be where she was now and she loved where she was right then. It made me wonder whether I Continue reading » Doing It My Way
All you see in your world is the outcome of your idea about it.
— Neale Donald Walsch
I think it’s very interesting that so many of us have to struggle to be happy. I don’t mean that our lives are so horrible that we can’t be happy; rather, I am referring to the problem we have recognizing how wonderful our lives are.
You’ve probably experienced this phenomenon if you’ve ever been given a raise at work. While any “normal” raise has some impact when we receive it, research shows that it takes only a couple of higher pay periods before we’ve absorbed the new money into our spending habits and no longer feel the Continue reading » Writing the Story We Want
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