Are we all asleep?

This is a post responding to Alis' thought-provoking post from last week, in which she challenged people who are "asleep" in their own lives, living mechanically, like Neo from the Matrix before taking the red pill. She said people who live consciously, breaking away from the nice warm beds of mundane lives, those are awake. That ...

Take it easier during the Holiday season. Here’s one simple idea.

In case you feel rushed, stressed, pressed, pulled from side to side...take a deep breath. And keep hope that it will turn out just fine. You know that saying Everything will be ok in the end. If it's not ok, then it's not the end. According to Stephen Covey, one of the main things happier people do is keep ...

The search for vintage and the search for self

By Wednesday, November 24, 2010 0 , Permalink

Searching through kitchenware ideas (I'm planning on decorating a new home) I found that plenty of the nicest (and yes, most expensive) stuff is ...well, old-looking. Grandma's kitchen stove - or not really.   The vintage trend is all over us. We reinvent the Fifties, watch Mad Men, listen to retro music, buy analog-looking (of course more ...

10 Commandments for the Creative person

1. Read books. Such as the ones here. Read Seth Godin and Malcom Gladwell. Read Philip Pullman and Frank Herbert. Read poetry and children's books. Travel to parallel universes and dive into other people's minds. 2. Watch other creative people explain their development process. Such as Elizabeth Gilbert and her genius/muse idea on Ted.com. 3. Surf Twitter. Get ...

Moving out = stages of change

I am moving to a new apartment. I was congratulated, received many encouragements, good wishes and the like, yet I look around me in horror. I hate moving. The clutter around, the dust, the confusion as you can't find anything anymore. But in the end, moving out is a renewal process. "You have a few days of ...