• Things to Forget

    Forget Focusing on Who You’re Not

    Forget Focusing on Who You’re Not Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are. Kurt Cobain Around this time of year people focus on improving. Growth is important but…it becomes problematic when people start focusing on their weaknesses instead of their strengths. Okay, so you’re carrying around an extra twenty pounds, but aren’t you a great friend and marketing whiz? Your finances are on life support, but aren’t you’re a wizard at putting together an event on short notice?

  • Things to Forget

    Forget Willpower

    Forget Willpower ‘Tis better to be alone than in bad company. George Washington There’s a reason why some of the most productive writers I know have a dedicated writing computer/laptop. (For those who don’t know what that is, it is a computer not connected to the internet, has no games and can basically do nothing else beside word processing–like a typewriter. If you don’t know what that is, look it up). Why do these authors use such a boring tool?

  • Things to Forget

    Forget Just Showing Up

    My latest non-fiction title, 10 Things to Forget: to be Creatively Free was a blast to write. On this blog, I’ve been writing on topics that didn’t make it into the book and others I’ve expanded on. You can read the other posts here. Forget Just Showing Up Eighty percent of success is showing up. Woody Allen I know you’ve taken a risk to follow a dream. I know you’ve put in the hours. The days, the months, the years. Unfortunately, sitting down at the piano, the easel, the desk, or going on stage or into the studio isn’t enough.

  • Things to Forget

    Forget The Guilt Trip

    My latest non-fiction title, 10 Things to Forget: to be Creatively Free was a blast to write. On this blog, I’ve been writing on topics that didn’t make it into the book. You can read the other posts here. Forget The Guilt Trip Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It’s a black wall. It’s a thief Dave Grohl

  • Things to Forget

    Forget Flow

    My latest non-fiction title, 10 Things to Forget: to be Creatively Free was a blast to write. On this blog, I’ve been writing on topics that didn’t make it into the book. You can read the other posts here. Forget Flow The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. Jim Hightower Flow is wonderful. Flow is when you’re creating and every moment is bliss. You feel alive, wonderful, powerful. Your creative ideas flow forth without limit or effort. Except when they don’t and then you’re stuck. Relax. That’s normal.