100 Day Creative Challenge 76: Afraid Elizabeth Gilbert addresses fear in an extensive list of ways we may be afraid to live a more creative life in Big Magic. You’re afraid you have no talent. You’re afraid you’ll be rejected or criticized or ridiculed or misunderstood or—worst of all—ignored… You’re afraid somebody else already did it […]
#35 Days of Dares #32 Dare to Be Spontaneous In yesterday’s post I dared you to plan and today I’m encouraging you to be spontaneous. What’s the deal? Plans and spontaneity go together. Ask any creative person and they’ll tell you to learn the rules, then break them. Jazz musicians are notorious for this. There […]
#35 Days of Dares #31 Dare to Plan It’s a seeming paradox but it’s important to plan for adventure. But, isn’t adventure spontaneous? In an earlier post I shared about The Theory of Planned Behaviour and about how my husband and I plan for adventure. We all dream of having adventures and every day can be […]
#35 Days of Dares #29 Dare to Lead At some point in life we’re all faced with a decision of whether or not to step up and lead. Sometimes we even lead by default. Leadership is not about being the CEO or managing director of a company necessarily. In fact, some people with these positions are […]
#35 Days of Dares #24 Dare to Fail Miserably Sometimes we fail. We fail miserably. When that happens the easiest thing to do is retreat and to promise ourselves that we will never, ever allow ourselves to feel that sense of failure again. So, we avoid the pain of failure by not challenging ourselves. The […]
#35 Days of Dares #23 Dare to Travel With Others We all need people we can count on, learn from and walk beside. When we’ve been hurt or disappointed with others, it’s difficult at times to trust again. I’m fortunate enough to have friends I’ve known more than half my life. They are the ones […]
#35 Days of Dares #22 Dare to Be Grateful If you, like me, exercise regularly, the benefits to your health and well-being are enormous. Various studies have shown that gratitude is also important to exercise and has many life-enhancing benefits. One titled Counting Blessings Versus Burdens reported: “There do appear to exist benefits to regularly […]
#35 Days of Dares #6 Dare to Decide In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. Theodore Roosevelt Whenever I go to restaurant with a lengthy menu, my husband groans. He usually […]
35 Days of Dares #5 Dare to Dream Dare to visualize a world in which your most treasured dreams have become true. Ralph Marston When your dreams get crushed by rejection, criticism or failure it’s easy to give up and stop dreaming. Often our default is to avoid pain. So rather than ingrate our […]
