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The Road goes ever on and onDown from the door where it began.Now far ahead the Road has gone,And I must follow, if I can,Pursuing it with eager feet,Until it joins some larger wayWhere many paths and errands meet.And whither then? I cannot say. -“The Walking Song” in The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien And asContinue reading “No Turning Back”

“People who get an unusual amount of work done are maniacal about removing things from their lives that others tolerate.” -Shane Parrish Artistic work isn’t for everyone. It requires total focus and concentration on the task at hand. You must shut everything out. Eliminate all distraction. Treat this work and time as precious, sacred, consecratedContinue reading “Artistic Work Is Sacred Work”

“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.” -Mary Oliver If you’re fortunate to receive the call to do creative work, you must answer it. Otherwise it will haunt you theContinue reading “Answer The Call”

“If you speak any lines, or do anything, mechanically, without fully realizing who you are, where you came from, why, what you want, where you are going, and what you will do when you get there, you will be acting without imagination. That time, whether it will be short or long, will be unreal, andContinue reading “Preparation”

“We can never go back. We can go forward. We can find the love our hearts long for, but not until we let go grief about the love we lost long ago.” -bell hooks “Over and over, the hand of memory reaches back, grasps for the bygone moment when life was simpler or brighter orContinue reading “Nostalgia”

“On May 2, 1972, Bruce Springsteen auditioned for the record producer John Hammond. Hammond had signed icons like Bob Dylan and Aretha Franklin—two of Springsteen’s heroes. “I would’ve been in a state of complete panic,” Springsteen writes in Born To Run, “except on the way up in the elevator, I performed a little mental jiu-jitsu on myself.Continue reading “Playing With House Money”

“The first rule of improvisation is AGREE. Always agree and SAY YES. When you’re improvising, this means you are required to agree with whatever your partner has created.” -Tina Fey “Saying ‘yes’ begins things. Saying ‘yes’ is how things grow. Saying ‘yes’ leads to knowledge.” -Stephen Colbert “Our first energy has to be “yes” energy,Continue reading “Start With Yes”

“Build a life where you’re energized in the morning and exhausted at night. Energized in the morning means you’re excited about the things you get to work on and the people you get to work on them with. Exhausted at night means you gave your all to those things and people. Your best life isContinue reading “Energized AND Exhausted”

“Better late than never.” Yes, this ancient proverb (From the Latin…”Potiusque sero quam nunquam….The historian Livius first recorded in 27 BC) is true. It is better to accomplish a goal or arrive at your destination late than never at all. But the proverb is not an excuse to turn in lazy or careless work. IfContinue reading “Better Late Than Never”

“You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way toContinue reading “YOUR Goals.”