Big Ideas & Books & Brands
You can transform your best ideas for a better world into a business, brand, book, podcast, and platform. This collection introduces you to ways to face and finesse – instead of fight or flee from – the inevitable challenges to do so.
Collections
How Awe Expands Our Perception of Time
Time & wonder are partners at this blog and in our Outpost Shoppe. In fact, the Mind Rooms Guide came out of my own experience coupled with my research into time, creative minds, and wonder. As the video below explains, a…
Myths & Truths About Writing Talent
3 Ways Books Change Lives (+ Writing Mentorship Program Opens)
Sometimes a book can rattle open such deep recognition that the door remains ajar for the rest of your life. It’s taken me a long time to realize that simple truth. I’ve always been slow to the take, at least…
MLK & the Inauguration of the Creatively Maladjusted
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDbm6Cv6tSA Today we honor an uncompromising dreamer. Today we honor the inauguration of another four-year cycle. Today we honor a country full of uncompromising dreamers. And today perhaps we inaugurate a new association that Martin Luther King called for in…
5 Elements to Make a Great Writer’s & Artist’s Retreat
NOT ALL RETREATS, PERSONAL OR GROUP, ARE EQUAL. I’ve taken countless retreats for my writing and business projects, and I’ve led numerous retreats in Taos, Woodstock, Greece, Nova Scotia for authors & writers, artists, designers, consultants, thought leaders. What factors…
10 Wishes for a Wondrous New Year (& links to others)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Tm9pWNXOJM Do fewer things better. Find the power in less striving. Make spaces in each day. Get out – get outdoors, get outside of yourself, and get out of your way – every day. Connect where and how it…