It's finally done – 30 days, 30 posts. Feels good. I can't say that every post was genius, but plenty were good, and I put honest thought and effort in every day ( Read more... )

Today's Challenge:

Speak what you think now in hard words, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today. – Ralph Waldo Emerson ( Read more... )

Today's Challenge:Write down a major life goal you have yet to achieve or even begin to take action on. For each goal, write down three uncertainties (read: fears) you have relating to each goal. Break it down further, and write down three reasons for each uncertainty. When you have three reasons for your fear, you'll be able to start processing ( Read more... )

Today's Challenge:

When did you feel most alive recently? Where were you? What did you smell? What sights and sounds did you experience? Capture that moment on paper and recall that feeling. Then, when it's time to create something, read your own words to reclaim a sense of being to motivate you to complete a task at hand.

Today's entry:Finally, ( Read more... )

Today's Challenge:

Think about the type of person you'd NEVER want to be 5 years from now. Write out your own personal recipe to prevent this from happening and commit to following it. "Thought is the seed of action."

Today's entry:I'm fighting this one a bit, because I'm kind of a never-say-never sort of guy. Of course, usually that just means ( Read more... )

Today's Challenge:What if today, right now, no jokes at all, you were actually in charge, the boss, the Head Honcho. Write the "call to arms" note you're sending to everyone (staff, customers, suppliers, Board) charting the path ahead for the next 12 months and the next 5 years. Now take this manifesto, print it out somewhere you can see, ( Read more... )

Today's Challenge:We are our most potent at our most ordinary. And yet most of us discount our "ordinary" because it is, well, ordinary. Or so we believe. But my ordinary is not yours. Three things block us from putting down our clever and picking up our ordinary: false comparisons with others (I'm not as good a writer as _____), false expectations ( Read more... )

Today's Challenge:

If you could picture your intuition as a person, what would he or she look like? If you sat down together for dinner, what is the first thing he or she would tell you?

Today's entry:

I gave it the old college try (has the person who invented that phrase ever met a college student?), but I just can't do it. Imagining my ( Read more... )

Today's Challenge:

Who is one person that you've been dying to connect with, but just haven't had the courage to reach out to? First, reflect on why you want to get in touch with them. Then, reach out and set up a meeting.

Today's entry:I hate to sound like I'm making excuses, but I honestly can't think of anyone. Connecting has been such a ( Read more... )

Today's Challenge:"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." is a great line from Emerson. If there's no enthusiasm in what you do, it won't be remarkable and certainly won't connect with people on an emotional basis. But, if you put that magic energy into all of your work, you can create something that touches people on a deeper level. ( Read more... )