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Eyes Full Of Dreams is a musical and motivational masterclass about making use of everything you are.  Dreaming isn’t dead, it’s simply been forgotten. Removed from our language. Sentenced to obscurity. And so, the educational need isn’t schooling, it’s shedding.  Through in studio performances and inspiring urban footage, the film isn’t teaching people how to dream, but teaching people how to unlock the portals through which dreams can enter. …

One of the most effective ways to manage stress is to literally have a conversation with it. To objectify and anthropomorphize your feelings of anxiety and discomfort and pain. To merge your worries into a trusted companion who has arrived to help you learn something very important about yourself.  When my therapist first suggested this technique, I thought it sounded a bit hokey. Then again, I had chronic stomach…

On my ten year anniversary of wearing a nametag twenty four seven, my family threw a huge party. We even ordered a cake shaped like nametag. And as I blew out the candles, I had a flashback about the twenty year old version of myself.  This whole nametag idea started as an idealistic vision of creating global friendliness, world peace and transcontinental unity. But after a decade, I had…

With every new year that comes and goes, I don’t think of myself as getting older, just less naïve.  That’s what life is. A continual process of lifting the veil and losing your innocence and consolidating your vision and cleaning the shit out of your ears and rounding out your perspective about how the world works.  I remember the first time I worked for a company that underpaid, overworked,…

Einstein didn’t gather any new information before he created his theory of relativity, he simply created a new way of seeing information that was already available to everybody else.  Darwin wasn’t legendary because of the insight of natural selection, but because he was able to build a conceptual framework in which natural selection made sense.  Newton didn’t invent gravity, he simply gave a name to something that was already…

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…

Opportunities are as big or as small as we make them. It all depends on the attitude and posture and context with which we approach the world.  Debono’s research draws an interesting comparison between two archetypes of opportunists, farmers and fishermen.  A farmer stays within his own patch. His emphasis is on one field of operation. He is able to search out opportunity, but only in a predefined direction.  A fisherman,…

Our dreams are often packaged in more anxiety than we would bargain for. With every passing moment, it can feel like the pressure is higher, the opportunities are fewer and the window is smaller.  But that’s actually good news. Because anything that makes us anxious is where the real work lies. That’s the beauty of tension. It possesses its own generative drive, which gives rise to an impetus to…

In certain parts of the world, eye contact is considered offensive.  It’s sign of aggression. Sometimes it’s bordering on sinful. And unfortunately, it makes you feel like you don’t exist other than being an object to avoid.  But that’s the beauty of wearing a nametag everyday. It’s just friendly enough, just honest enough and just quirky enough, to wipe out some of the fear.  I’ve traveled all over the world, and people…

The seven most important words any creative person can say to himself.  Oh my god, you can do that?  Consider the amount of permission and inspiration and liberation built into that moment. Once a person asks themselves that question, there’s no stopping them. They’re off to the creative races. And what’s exciting about these seven words is, they’re not just for beginners. At every stage of a career, these…