We repeatedly see this dynamic in the lives of our heroes. Where the dominant ideology challenges reason, they feel obliged to speak out, to do what they believe is right, and to pursue their own goals, even though they may be punished.
Doing What Matters
Trust that the way through is the way out: by facing your anxiety now and learning to name and do your work, relief and calm will follow.
Trust that the way through is the way out: by facing your anxiety now and learning to name and do your work, relief and calm will follow.
The Art of Naming Your Work
You want to name your work truthfully and you also want to name it with clarity and exactness.
You want to name your work truthfully and you also want to name it with clarity and exactness.
Six Letting Go Stories
Dream, but expect nothing. Desire, but expect nothing. Hope, but expect nothing. Release your need to control and gain real control.
Dream, but expect nothing. Desire, but expect nothing. Hope, but expect nothing. Release your need to control and gain real control.
The Art of Letting Go
While it is wonderful and necessary to have goals, dreams, hopes, and ambitions, it is a mental and emotional mistake to have expectations.
While it is wonderful and necessary to have goals, dreams, hopes, and ambitions, it is a mental and emotional mistake to have expectations.
How to Stop Rushing
The sky won’t fall if you completely stop for a few seconds. Find the way to believe that.
The sky won’t fall if you completely stop for a few seconds. Find the way to believe that.
Centering Incantations for Joy and Action
12 powerful incantations (breathing-and-thinking bundles) that I believe can serve you.
12 powerful incantations (breathing-and-thinking bundles) that I believe can serve you.
12 Incantations for a Centered Life
Get centered and stay centered in 2022.
Get centered and stay centered in 2022.
The Art of Dropping Thoughts Into Breaths
Set aside a little time to practice breathing-and-thinking.
Set aside a little time to practice breathing-and-thinking.
Are You Obsessed With Preserving?
There is a productive obsession to fit every personality and every interest.
There is a productive obsession to fit every personality and every interest.
Making Creative Work Big, Bold and Fresh
There is no formula for arriving at that obsession, there is only the honest work of thinking through which project will serve you at this precise moment.
There is no formula for arriving at that obsession, there is only the honest work of thinking through which project will serve you at this precise moment.
Your Breathing Can Keep You Centered
Get centered and stay centered in 2022.
Get centered and stay centered in 2022.
How Creatives Use Productive Obsessions
What process do people go through as they attempt to arrive at their productive obsession?
What process do people go through as they attempt to arrive at their productive obsession?
Great Endurance Quotes
Productive obsessing requires endurance.
Productive obsessing requires endurance.
How to Stop Being Uncentered
We make some of our biggest decisions—to marry, to pursue a new career, to move to a different city—while uncentered.
We make some of our biggest decisions—to marry, to pursue a new career, to move to a different city—while uncentered.
Mt. Everest in a Month?
Real work that we do in the service of our goals and dreams requires endurance.
Real work that we do in the service of our goals and dreams requires endurance.