And the knowing that comes from an 'in house' metaphor. Last month, we cashed in some Apple shares to have a friend's brother fix our bathroom.
making one’s own language
Correspondence, energy, and how to gain self-awareness through making your language, your way. Actually, I'm working on more of symbol set, but
Judging or Perceiving | Collector or Renunciate?
Dualistic Mindsets in Myers Briggs and other such things I have a judgy mind. And if you've done a Myers-Briggs test and landed squarely with a
Empathy isn’t pathology, Mr. Musk
If you are feeling a bit too much empathy, and it has you on the floor feeling terrible, don't go to war with it, up-level it into compassion. It
Networking with a beginner’s mind
Backdrop: In 20+ years of my marketing business, I didn't need to "do networking" because the right people found me at the right times, and my
intersection of marketing and operations: digital concierge
Key evaluations you need to make before you add any more digital marketing into your life. How many times has someone told you you need a
Open Hope
Not everyone grew up with the privilege of taking Hope for granted. Hope is a thing of children, even in rough places. It's a thing of the
High Commitment to a Low Standard
A way to make and sustain great habits. I'm pretty much sure we've all heard the adage "practice makes perfect." And then as adults we recognized
Designer Questions to Engineer Endurance, Achievement, and Happiness
Focusing your attention on long-acting, feeling-based, style-specific questions can give you a richer and happier experience of life. What I love
Truth telling in little bits
Focus, the folly of first-ness, and how symbolic truth-telling connects us to our souls and each other. If any one artist works with the truth
Helping the Helpers: methodology and pitfalls
Like many people, I've wanted to make a huge positive impact, but unlike others, I haven't wanted to be directly acknowledged for doing it, because
Renaissance Warriors
I'm going to tell you right now that you are a modern day Renaissance Warrior. This is because you can do many, many things very well. This includes
What if I can’t…
What to do when your values thwart change, and a footnote about how no-brand branding is already here. Ever feel woefully self-aware and stuck
A Prompt for Nature Knowledge
Some days I walk through the woods and wonder "what is nature telling me today?" The answers are always simple. Nature tells me that old
Take back the alphabet & re-write your life
How work with the most basic building blocks in order to elevate your communication. I've always seen the alphabet as a beautiful grouping of
What are your Grace Goals today?
It’s Sunday morning in America1 and the texts from family & friends are coming in. “How can we get through?”“I’m freaking out inside.”“It’s
Artful Advertising
If you lay down your META or Google targeted ad sets like blankets of loveliness across the web– regardless of your product, service or event – your
Orienting a Day
I love the term orientation. It's connected to my past and my future. And now all at once. The days I choose to orient around "love" or "hope,"
Mission: Good Will Ambassador
Writing a mission statement, and how waiting tables is as fine an ambassadorship as any outside post. Demystifying entity-speak: Mission &
project project & on demand on you
This is about putting the marketing cart before the horse with Human Design, and it apparently working.1 Oh yes, and moonlighting...And examining
The Living Legacy™ Worksheet
What if you could discover your life's natural purpose in 5 minutes? This is the original Living Legacy Worksheet, written around Y2K. I just had
always be moonlighting
I've had many jobs in my life. Usually two at once. Sometimes even three. It's been helpful to always be moonlighting at all my jobs, because it
Your ordinary, extraordinary life
There is a form if you'd like to share on this topic below. The first part of my life, I wanted to be extraordinary. Driven by a distant father who
Idealism, burnout, and collaborative missions
I've needed to abruptly quit a few things in my life. And each time, my departures have left people confused. In general, I'm an upbeat worker,
Speculation vs Decision: guarantee certainty and mitigate risk by front-loading choices
My eleven year old wakes up early and likes to go on woods-walks with me most days before school. Today, we figured out when choosing between two
Taking a Hot Second to do The Work
I've come to know Byron Katie's The Work as a strategic identity cleanse, a chance to remove harmful beliefs with surgical precision. If you don't
So, just how do you sleep at night?
One of these Master Class titles floated through my social media feed that says you should talk to yourself like a friend. Since I've been awakening
Archive: Life Coaching Articles
Yes, there are archives inside archives. lol In the interest of preserving more embarrassing, and sometimes helpful, writings below are archival
Empowering questions*
I've got no idea what to write today, so perhaps it is time to feed my mind some new questions to chew on. Such as; What can I do right now to
