We love Woodie Guthrie’s 33 New Year’s “Rulins”, hand written 1943 in a notebook with tiny illustrations along side. These six are dazzlers.
Read MoreIrving Penn’s Lesson in Setting Boundaries
When I worked with legendary photographer Irving Penn years ago, he gave me a tangible lesson in setting boundaries to maintain the flow of his work.
Read MoreLeonardo da Vinci’s Affirmations to Counter Failure (Including a Wild Kitchen Fiasco)
We like to open books at random to see what chunk of synchronous wisdom they might offer. Recently, we found this description of Leonardo’s wild, endearing culinary FAIL…
Read MoreEdward Gorey on the Unexpected in Creative Projects + Morning Mantra
When Susan Dworski sent us this hunk of Edward Gorey brilliance, she also shared her own morning mantra.
Read More2 Minute Lessons from Therapy from Really Creative People
Shrink is a compelling series of videos in which really smart, creative people tell what they learned in therapy in under two minutes. Natasha Lyonne’s is our favorite, perfect with this Galway Kinnell poem.
Read MoreA Lost Computer’s Lesson in YES
When her laptop got marooned for a week in Grand Central Station’s Lost Luggage Department, book editor and writer Harriet Bell discovered what it is like to live without it.
Read MoreHow to Unhook from Email Paranoia
Thought Catalog’s 10 Ways You’re Making Your Life Harder Than It Has Top Be did a great job of identifying some really common disruptive thought patterns I share with about a million other people. One in particular really hit home.
Read MoreWe Discover A Low-Stress Work Strategy and Begin Again
During our recent working vacation, we tested out a strategy that yielded the secret to navigating a mountain of work without stress:
Read MorePotent Restful Secrets to a Working Vacation
We were about to take some time to do NOTHING when got a notice for Jury Duty and found a trove of essential, time-sensitive tasks that had fallen by the wayside. We wondered how to plough through obligations AND rest in a beachy, refreshing way?
Read MoreReminder: Where Good Ideas Can Come From
Where Do Ideas Come From? is a video that features vastly different answers to the question from some seriously creative people, from David Lynch, Susan Orlean and Chuck Close to a couple of kids.
Read MoreHow to Live Wisely With Your Phone
School of Life’s How to Live More Wisely with Our Phones is a remarkable essay about how we can gently balance our relationship to our smart phones. Here are the most useful and view-shifting hunks.
Read MoreWhat Does Self Care Look Like To You? (Solange)
Solange’s extrordinary album, A Seat at the Table, has been described as an expression of the right to feel it all…Her song Borderline (Ode to Self Care) begs the complex question: What does self care look like to you? Here’s her answer, and ours.
Read MorePersonal Kanban to Focus Your Unruly Creative Brain
Personal Kanban, is a tool to visualize, organize and complete work in a way that maximizes, rather than depletes, energy and focus. It is simple and incredibly effective; its core principles address just how my unruly monkey brain functions.
Read MoreAlisa Barry’s Encouragement Cards + Care Packages
A couple of weeks ago, a big cardboard box arrived in the mail with an unusual sticker on it: BE BRAVE. What we found inside blew us away.
Read MoreFinding Your Fuel
Having just turned a BIG birthday, I’ve been thinking hard about what fuels me, and what I pursue that is not powered by good strong fuel. Fuel to me equals meaning, as well as pleasure. Taking stock is useful; it’s simple process, really, that you can do throughout your day.
Read MoreThree Words that Transform Anxiety or Fear into Excitement
After many years of suffering stage-fright in certain situations, I wonder what would have happened had I known neuroscientist Ian Robertson’s “magic trick” that transforms certain forms of anxiety and fear into excitement.
Read MoreOur Newest Day Planning Strategy
In addition to our clockface day planner, we’ve been employing another illuminating strategy to fill and track our day.
Read MoreJournal of Wonders (Mary Oliver)
This morning, after a friend read us this fragment of Mary Oliver’s poem, Good Morning, we tucked our favorite red notebook in our bag…
Read MoreAdvice for Someone Who is Juggling Her Life
Like most people, we often feel like we are juggling way too many things in our life. Although we try to simplify, make choices, edit out the unnecessary, we have not yet mastered the equilibrium of just enough. How startling then to find A Poem for Someone Who is Juggling Her Life and its affirmation of a very counter-intuitive option…
Read MoreYou Control Your Time (Warren Buffett + Bill Gates)
When Rose asked Bill Gates what the biggest thing he’d learned from Warren Buffett is, Gates replied it isn’t about investing money; it’s about investing time.
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