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Creative Joy Extravaganza
What is creative joy? That was the question Marianne, Susannah, and I started asking when we decided to convene a retreat called Creative Joy. Creative joy is one of those phrases that you may think you know what it means to you and yet, when you start digging and...
Regain Your Creative Joy
"While the hero journeys for external fame, fortune, and power, the heroine tries to regain her lost creative spirit." Valerie Frankel, From Girl to Goddess This quote has rocked my world. It feels very, very important. Frankly, I started Savor & Serve because I...
Sustain Your Momentum
Ever falter and lose your momentum right before the finish line on a project or when preparing for something big? Lord how I hate when I do this! Sustaining momentum: honestly, it always felt a little boring to me. Pedestrian. What I loved was bolting out of the...
It’s Good to Want the Oscar
I attended a "retreatshop" lead by the delicious Rachel Cole last Saturday. The subject was desire and self-care in the form of asking "What are you truly hungry for?" Isn't that the best question ever? Let it roll around on your heart-belly for a long moment. Let it...
The Beauty of Mistakes
I make a lot of mistakes. I am learning to see their beauty. These mistakes are mostly around dates and times for classes and typos, but I'm also good for word usage and grammar oddities at least a few times a week. I lose students and readers over these mistakes as...
What Helps Me in My Business?
Painting by Pat Woodall What helps me in my business isn't any different than what helps me in my life. I'm sure the same is true for you. Like: :: Bob's love. (who do you grow with?) * Lilly's being. (what do you excel for?) :: My assistant Deb Buxton. (who do you...
What Helps Me Write
This is who I am studying with right now - loving it. New favorite writing blog - utterly inspiring in get-under-your-skin way. Advice for writing faster - do sign up for her newsletter. Via Colleen, who you must read as she writes like a perfect cup of whatever you...
Own Your Gifts Please
What if the only thing that stands between you and the life you want – the savoring & serving that calls to you – was seeing how brilliant you already are? Now wait a minute. I know reading that could have raised your “new age be gone” hackles. It would mine. But...
Getting Sick Pays
I caught a nasty cold last Friday night. My assistant Deb was here patiently working out a Google calendar snag when I felt it come on. It's creepy fascinating to watch your body being invaded -- the slight pain in your throat, the burning behind your eyes, the...
365 Days of Savoring & Serving
In celebration of one year (okay one year and a few weeks) of exploring Savoring & Serving, I asked the people who have been a special part of this year for me -- from nourishing email encounters to life-changing healings -- to tell, in 50 words or less, what they...
I’m Getting Married
Those are words I never thought I'd write again. Me, getting married. We met four years ago on Match.com. (His sister met her husband on Match too. Wild!) Both of us were simply looking for someone to have dinner with, maybe go for a hike. We'd both been on Match for...
Savor & Serve February Lovelights
Hello Miracle of You, This morning my first thought was, "One day I won't be here and I am going to miss having a body so much so let's enjoy it now." Those words don't truly capture the pure animal joy that I immediately felt, a sudden simple freedom to be. I...
It’s Been a Year???
It's been a year and a few days since I publicly declared my experiment of Savoring & Serving, an experiment of exploring how to marry what I love about being alive with addressing something of the world's great needs. What have I learned? What results has this...
Find Your Tribe
A fab reader Mindy Essex asked me a fab question and I, in turn, do what I do best: asked other fab people - my heart tribe - what they think. Shaazzam! A post chock-a-block-full of fab-u-licious ideas. If you read this and aren't inspired, please have somebody check...
A Custom Made Shero For You
Archetypes lend energy. Split open limitations. Download ancient truths. Pop you out of ordinary into lush wild what ifs. They can act as personal courage power strips - plug yourself in. Archetypes give you backbone. And... archetypes can feel removed, remote,...
Five Ways to Love Yourself While Creating Anything
In a large measure, becoming a writer consists of learning to accept yourself, which makes your work personal, and in following your own voice, which makes your work distinctive.” Art & Fear by Bayles & Orland I know self-acceptance is the key to getting your...
Your Creative Joy is Speaking to You
I am writing a novel. Again. Is the 3rd time charm? I shout "Yes! Yes! Yes!" and throw my arms open wide... and then I fold my hands to my heart with a quiet, "May it be so." You see, in a long ago life, I was a screenwriter trying to "make it" in Hollywood. My entire...
Are You Ready to Play Big?
You know how you "meet" someone through the interwebs, then you really meet in the flesh and maybe you are a little... underwhelmed? Or even a little... aghast? That is so not what happened when I finally meet Tara Sophia Mohr. Instead I felt like so lucky, as in "Oh...
A Love Letter to Teachers (that includes you)
Ever think about how incredibly dependent humans are on being taught? You can't survive without near constant instruction for a long, long time. We big headed mammals even have to be taught how to breast feed. You would have died without teachers. A bit humbling,...
The Way of the Peaceful Entrepreneur
I'm always amazed at how calm and steady Pace Smith of Connection Revolution is whenever she is out there on the interwebs doing business. So when Pace wanted to talk about her upcoming class - The Way of the Peaceful Entrepreneur - I thought, "Cool! Here's a chance...
Please Prevent Dream Burn Out – Only You Can
I know, it's the first week of January and yet I'm already feeling some goal burn out, dream burn out, 2012 getting you down. Today, after yoga, I was feeling a bit stiff and sore, and underneath that, a little resentful. And underneath that, a chewy teenager "screw...
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