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Job number one isn’t to have good ideas, it’s to have gobs of ideas. To strengthen the creative muscle until it’s quivering and veiny and oiled up. Because any seed to imagination is healthy, safe and useful.  In fact, bad ideas might someday inspire you to come up with something better. They’re the fertilizer in which your good ideas grow.  My wife and I come up with bad ideas on a daily basis….

All creativity begins with the moment of conception. That little piece of kindling that gets the fire going. That initial source of inspiration that takes on a life of its own. That single note from which the entire symphony grows. That single spark of life that signals an idea’s movement value, almost screaming to us, something wants to be built here. Based on my books in The Prolific Series, I’m going…

Eyes Full Of Dreams is a musical and motivational masterclass about making use of everything you are.  This film will be presented as a serialized, episodic documentary. I’m premiering each song as a stand alone chapter. Watch the movie, buy the album and download the dream journal at www.eyesfullofdreams.com. Higher Ground Move matters to a higher groundIt’s the only game we playBe careful aroundThose strong enough to stay awaySeeking out some second…

Gruber’s research on positive psychology found that attempting to suppress negative emotions, rather than accepting and appreciating them, paradoxically can backfire and increase feelings of distress.  She writes that one idea which is overdue for retirement is that sadness is bad and happiness is good. Because negative emotions can be a beautiful thing. They aid our survival with cues about threats. They help us focus and persist in times…

If you’ve been in the entrepreneurship game five or seven or even ten years, and you’re still running in place, perpetuating the plateau, failing to make any significant progress with your enterprise, consider the possibility that you have made the wrong investment.  It’s nothing to be ashamed of. Bloomberg’s latest research reports that eight out of ten entrepreneurs who start businesses fail within the first eighteen months. And so,…

Thoreau famously said that happiness is like a butterfly. The more we chase it, the more it will elude us, but if we turn our attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on our shoulder.  Taoist scholars call this experience paradoxical unity, in which any over determined action produces its exact opposite. Consciously try to grab it, and it’s gone. The moment we try to catch…

My favorite joke from childhood was, where does the eight hundred pound gorilla sit in a movie theater?  Anywhere he wants.  Which is hilarious to a kid, because you wonder what kind of candy he eats. Probably gummy worms.  To businessperson, however, the joke is actually quite insightful. Because in a free market, volume is the ultimate skeleton key. Once you find a way to create more than enough…

I recently did an interview with Todd Schnick at Intrepid Now. We went behind the scenes on my new concert documentary, Eyes Full Of Dreams. In this discussion, I’ll answer questions like… *Why are people so hesitant to pursue their dreams?*What inspired you to make a film about pursuing your own dreams? And did you meet any resistance?*Aren’t we on this Earth to make art? To create? To leave…

All creativity begins with the moment of conception. That little piece of kindling that gets the fire going. That initial source of inspiration that takes on a life of its own. That single note from which the entire symphony grows. That single spark of life that signals an idea’s movement value, almost screaming to us, something wants to be built here. Based on my books in The Prolific Series, I’m going…

Eyes Full Of Dreams is a musical and motivational masterclass about making use of everything you are.  This film will be presented as a serialized, episodic documentary. I’m premiering each song as a stand alone chapter. Watch the movie, buy the album and download the dream journal at www.eyesfullofdreams.com. Good Things Burning off the souls of my shoes No man can take Take this love away from you It’s a modern make,…