Recently, a few people emailed and asked about my process as a coach. Good question! Here’s the scoop I work in both an intuitive and systematic way. After deep diving into your goals, motivations and challenges as a creative (and human), we’ll have a fairly good starting point. This assessment tends to bring to the [...]
I am convinced that most of what drives our behavior is seriously affected by our subconscious programming in one way or another. I’m not gonna go into it in a big way on this post. I’ve done it before. And I suspect I shall do it again. But here’s my point… To create something [...]
Everybody likes it when things are easy. But it’s the challenges in our work and creativity (and pretty much everything else) that help us step into the extraordinary. When I started writing songs and recording music in the basement during my high school years in the 80s, it was tough going. A crap tape recorder. [...]
Things are pretty crazy around here in Seattle, around the country, and around the world. It’s scary and things are changing fast. Besides prepping, washing your hands and all of that, we may be doing a whole lot of ‘social distancing’ for awhile. While we all try not to freak out, I’ve been looking for [...]
As a functional adult these days, it’s really easy to lose your sense of wonder. Why does that matter? And why should you care? When you lose the wonder, your world becomes flat. Boring sets in. A boundary between yourself and everything else begins to form. It just ain’t cool. Wonder is a state of [...]
You rock! That rocks! We will rock you! We hear the rock word tossed around all the time. It’s one of those words that holds some kind of magic, some kind of power. It’s like a spell. Or a deep truth. Or maybe a power word that means much more than it seems. Being a [...]
My heroes are people who shine, act and broadcast clear ideals that have shaped my personality and mission in life. Heroes don’t always save babies in burning buildings. Sometimes they simply show us courageous ways to live in the world. In one way or another, all of my heroes are Not F*ing Around. Life on [...]
Some theories of psychology believe that we’re made of psychological parts. Lover, brother, leader, activist, humanitarian, whatever. But there’s a dark side. For every saint there’s a sinner. For every virgin there’s a whore. If this theory is true, then we all have inside of us the seeds of a superhero dreamer. A creative powerhouse [...]
I was definitely the weird kid. The boy who played with invisible friends out there on the playground during recess. I had what you might call “a rich inner life.” I guess that’s expected when you’re in grade school. All cool. But as I got older the world began to get unkind. Like the day [...]
My dentist was my guru. As a kid, my brothers and I always went to the same dentist. Dr. Serwin was kind of a strange guy. Big beard. Big laugh. Smelled kind of funny. But he was a great dentist and I always liked him, even when he was drilling into my molars. When I [...]
