According to the Japanese idea of Ikigai, passion meets purposeful work in the intersection of what you love doing and what you’re good at. When you lay The Wheel of Creativity on top of the Ikigai diagram, you can see a pathway that takes you, step by step, from passion to purposeful work.
The Story Challenge: What story do you want to tell with your life?
If you decide to take The Story Challenge, all next week (January 31 – February 6) you will get a daily email to guide you through that process of building your story day by day, one stone at a time.
Beyond The Great Resignation… 5 Steps to Reinventing Yourself with Passion
In 2021 alone, 38 million people in the US alone left their jobs. So what can you do while you’re waiting to turn The Great Resignation into a reinvention? Here are five proven steps you can take now to find the opportunity in it for you.
12 Days of Creativity for 2022
Creativity is such a buzz word now, it’s practically lost its meaning. And the quality of our lives depends on how well we learn to use it. Read on for 12 mind-altering, heart-opening, life-changing secrets I’ve discovered through my lifetime as a creative adventurer.
The Gratitude Antidote… Appreciation is the Cure
Growing up in Texas, I knew that every Thanksgiving my mother, the clear and present matriarch of the family, would end our meal with a single command. “Okay, now let’s go around the table and everyone say what you’re grateful for.” Eyes would roll. And the moans were audible. I was in my mid-30s before I began to appreciate this ritual.
Disappointment and the Creative Path
Creativity is the lover that makes your life worth living. But she needs your attention. He is jealous… and impatient. Without her, the ground of your being is cracked like the desert floor. Without him, life is pallid and dull.