The Fire Starter Sessions

How do you want to feel when you look at your schedule for the week? When you get dressed in the morning? When you walk through the door of your studio or your office? When you pick up the phone? When you cash the check, accept the award, finish your masterpiece, make the sale, or fall in love? … How do you want to feel?

Each of us determines the value of our time and money with every choice we make.

Create sacred physical and/or psychological space to make your art. This may be a corner in your bedroom with your laptop and an altar, a garage with an AM/FM radio, or an office with windows that open. “Space” could be your walk after dinner or the half hour you take in the morning to journal, a weekend in a motel with Wi-Fi, or a yearly silent re

I found out that there weren’t too many limitations, if I did it my way. —Johnny Cash

The pursuit of balance is stressing us out. It’s a maddening juggle of self, others, career. Equal parts exercise, home décor, loverly devotion, career ambition, and family tending—and we wonder why we get sick when we finally take a vacation.

If it gives you true joy (not the seemingly happy high that is fleeting, but the reliable, always-there kind of satisfaction)

Eventually, I started giving up trying to be good at stuff that made me feel bad.

Identity Refinement 101. Subtle panic. Eventually, I started giving up trying to be good at stuff that made me feel bad.

WHAT’S THE EXPERIENCE THAT YOU’RE GIVING TO PEOPLE? What do you do for them that affects their life or their work, if even for a moment? That might lead you to the heart of your offering.