I was listening to a podcast the other day where the host remembered a quote from a famous author about where you are impacting how you feel — and unfortunately, he couldn’t remember the author’s name. The point of the podcast host’s offhanded, unattributed pseudo-quote was to support one of his concepts for creative self […]
Creativity
Doodle Challenge Fail
About a month ago, I started a challenge to draw a doodle for 100 days in a row. I made it exactly 31 days before I gave it up. Here’s what I learned: 30 days is my limit for a challenge. When I do (visual) art out of obligation instead of creative urge, it isn’t […]
Creativity as a Habit
The other day, I was listening to an episode of my favorite podcast, Creative Pep Talk, about overthinking. Like most of his episodes, host Andy J. Pizza took the topic in a different and more profound direction than I was expecting: making creativity a habit, and treating it as such. There’s a whole slew of […]
Getting Outside Your Head
The power of words never ceases to amaze me. They hold the power to connect us and to create rifts. The written word can take us out of reality for a short while. The spoken word can bring us more fully into the present. Writing, for me, is thinking. It’s how I process the world […]
Finding Time for What You WANT to Do
I got an email from a woman in response to last week’s newsletter — and it intrigued me. Like me, she’s a copywriter, she’s a mom of young kids, and she’s written a few books (so far unpublished). She asked me how I balance my copywriting business with writing books. What intrigued me about this […]
The Network of Good
I’m a tinkerer. It’s my superpower. I get obsessed with puzzles and technical problems and I tinker until the pieces connect. I am always on the lookout for threads, connections, common themes — everywhere, with everything. I think in networks. Which is why I love Roam’s graph database. I’ve been using it for a couple […]
