Well, the adventures in the non-profit world continue. All along, as I've dealt with these organizations that have high-minded goals, I've been struck by how unlike the business world they are in one key characteristic ( Read more... )

I said I would post this when it went out. It was released today. You are welcome to repost it anywhere you think it belongs ( Read more... )

One of the first things writing teachers tell you is to shut up your internal critic. Just tell it to take a hike. Or promise it that it can have its say later, if it will just take a snooze now. Or just keep a mental cancel stamp handy to eliminate its influence ( Read more... )

I'm helping put together a free forgiveness training. The dates are set now. It will be online, three Tuesday evenings, beginning the week after Thanksgiving. When I've got a final on the press release, I'll post it here ( Read more... )

Yesterday I had lunch with a woman songwriter, performer, teacher and writer who is trying to build a performance career. We talked about the problem of gathering all this activity under one projected image of herself. Something that people would remember ( Read more... )

Last night, a friend hung up on me. I think she was drunk, but I'm not sure. She hung up on me, because I kept asking her to stop telling me her angry opinions about people I was about to meet ( Read more... )

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I write something like that thing this morning, and pat myself on the head ( Read more... )

A long time ago, when I was in my 20s and lived in a ramshackle beach cottage in Sarasota, I used to save my very scanty earnings as freelance writer to go to personal development seminars. There was a group that I loved, based on Ken Keyes' Handbook to Higher Consciousness. Which is still one of my all-time favorite guides to getting your head ( Read more... )

Okay, I'm back in the world of other human beings. The phone is ringing. I've got lots of appointments. My nervous system is starting to get that nice zingy feeling of almost too much work ( Read more... )