So, you know my life mission, right? My life mission of the moment, that is. I don’t think I have enough hubris, right now, to think that this life mission will always be my life mission. (Though honestly, I can only imagine it being similar.) It’s something like this: To stay engaged. To fill my [...]
Tagged as: "The Idea Catalyst Kit", change, growth, happiness, Ideaschema
There is so much cool stuff going on here. Listen First – Sell Later Hits Seth’s Reading List Bob Poole’s fantastic book, Listen First – Sell Later, is on Seth Godin’s “latest reading” book roundup list at Squidoo. I’m kind of gooshy and happy about it, since I edited the book and feel somewhat proud [...]
Tagged as: Bob Poole, change, Freak Revolution, Music, Seth Godin
It’s been a whole weekend since I did That Scary Thing I Did, and I have to tell you… it doesn’t stop being scary just because it’s done. Probably because it isn’t actually done! I often find myself under the delusion that forcing the good change will get it over with and then I won’t [...]
Tagged as: change, fear, launch, That Idea Blueprint Girl
A number of weeks before I turned twenty-eight I began to experience a kind of urgency. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that twenty-eight is only two years from thirty, or that twenty-seven is fairly close to twenty-five but twenty-eight is not. I began to feel that something wasn’t getting done quickly [...]
Tagged as: age, anger, change, crisis, culture, frustration, growth, laziness, society, time, urgency
I used to feel obliged to let people know how bad I did in school. I never did my homework; I wrote stories and drew pictures through my classes, as much and as often as I could get away with it (and sometimes when I couldn’t). I read paperbacks and comic books—it’s harder for the [...]
Tagged as: change, college, education, growth, homework, learning, school
You know, I didn’t expect Wanted to be such a good movie. I thought it would be fun, but I didn’t expect it to feel so purposeful for me. I don’t know if you’ll see the same things I did, but for me it was very clear. What do you do when the universe speaks [...]
Tagged as: ability, change, evolution, growth, insanity, potential, purpose, superheroes
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