I once sent an April Fool's email offering readers the opportunity to use my shower, since that's where so many profitable ideas come from. People thought it was a hoot.…
The alarm clock meep-meeps at you at 5:45am. You hit the snooze once or twice, and then roll out of bed and rub the 5 or 6 hours of sleep…
Will you live to regret it if you don't follow your dream of being an artist? At the end of your life, will you deeply regret taking the sure and…
In 1902, an aspiring young writer received a rejection letter from the poetry editor of The Atlantic Monthly. Enclosed with a sheaf of poems the twenty-eight-year-old poet had sent was…
Did you ever go on a treasure hunt when you were a child, or read Poe's "The Gold Bug"? Then you know the first thing you have to do before…
How do you view change? Is it frightening and intimidating? Or is it an opportunity for positive transformation? When Charles Dickens was a small boy, his father was sent to…
Are you a believer? Are you a daydream believer? Are you finding yourself getting bored in certain areas of your life or with certain tasks you have set? Perhaps it’s…
Are you reluctant to act on your art career because of a fear of failure? Are you afraid of “blowing it,” of being embarrassed or looking foolish to your friends…
Have you wanted to start your artistic career, but felt that the timing was wrong or that it was too late? Do you ever feel like your real chances to…
“Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life’s cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you…
