#478 – How can you turn any difficult conversation into an amicable chat?The fact that “difficult conversations” is the subject of so many books, courses, and business-magazine articles tells you something about humans: exposing ourselves f...

#477 – What happens when you mute your voice?Whenever you acquiesce when you really mean no, you're putting a gag in your Self. Sooner or later, the pressure is too much and you explode in a Godzilla-like wrath, torching everything in sight with...

#476 – What changes when you believe you don't need to chase time?When the Ghost of Time Indifference leads your life, you either run like a mad hatter, feeling late to everything, or let life go by you, oblivious to hours and days.This morning...

#475 – How does your world contract when you need to be right?"Being right" is a small place that fits exactly one person: you. Because whatever you're right about, someone else is right about too––in their own way.During my training to become a...

#474 – Who could you become if you weren't attached?Once your values override your critical thinking, you're done evolving: your ideas, beliefs, and mental habits have become more stubborn than your presence.When my friend Isabel Del Olmo was wo...

#473 – How will emptying your mind make you more creative?The idea is so simple that spending time writing or reading about it seems ludicrous: the less you have in your mind, the more you'll create to fill it up with stuff––an idea for a short story...

#472 – How will a Morning Pages routine strengthen your mind?People around the world have been starting their days with a Morning Pages routine for 33 years––Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way was published in 1992. If the practice's still alive a...

#471 – Why did your Ego confuse creation with control?The myth of the creator determined to shape their creation down to the last detail is as old as humanity.A few days ago, in my morning pages, I wrote that I’d undertaken bringing a son into this w...

#470 – What pushes you to justify your rest?Putting in 100-hour workweeks seems to be the new normal for some in Silicon Valley (this Wall Street Journal article says). A badge of honor, a feat deserving applause and admiration.In such a culture, tak...

#469 – How can you envision your future without "futurizing?"Manifestation gurus and "infinite potential" experts tell us we need to envision our future if we want it to happen.But after finding myself engaging in a kind of forward-looking activity t...