After over two years and nearly a hundred fortunes, Fortune Friday is coming to a close. What started out as a exercise designed to improve my writing skills, Fortune Friday has become something dear to my heart. It has pushed me to get really clear about who I am, what I think, how I feel,…
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In my teen years I was involved in the martial arts. I studied in a very traditional Okinawan Goju-ryu school in New Jersey. It was glorious. I loved the discipline and the ceremony of it all. My teacher tolerated no backtalk, complaining, or hazing. A wrinkled gi was not tolerated. You were expected to wash…
Continue reading →Let’s break this fortune down into its two parts. Part 1: Do not hesitate to look for help. Trying to succeed purely on your own is not only unnecessarily prideful, it’s downright foolish. Practically nothing in the history of the world was created in isolation. Everybody gets help somewhere, whether it be a shared idea,…
Continue reading →So many creatives and would-be entrepreneurs are on a seemingly endless quest to create something the world has never seen. And this can be a worthy pursuit. The downside, however, is this can create enormous pressure to deliver, resulting in performance anxiety and often, paradoxically, the opposite result of what we seek. Instead of innovating,…
Continue reading →“Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.” This line, made famous by Michael Corleone in The Godfather Part II, provides a keen insight for improving our art and our lives. Too often we wage war with the parts of ourselves we do not like. We want to conquer these perceived weaknesses. Blow them to…
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