Your Daily Rock : Make it Your Own
“If you insist on disavowing that which is ugly about what you do, you will never learn from your mistakes.” –Cassandra Clare I know we all make mistakes in our lives. We all hurt others, intentionally or unintentionally. I don’t mind that—I think that is how we learn and move …
Your Daily Rock – Let Your Life Be a Poem
In the introduction to my book, Creative is a Verb, I included a quotation from Osho that has great meaning for me: When I say be creative, I don’t mean you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a …
Your Daily Rock – Say Something
“All I have is a voice.” –W.H. Auden You have a voice. You don’t need to find it. You just need to use it. What do you long to say? Love,
Your Daily Rock – Be Someone’s Angel
“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.” — Henry James We all need a little help sometimes. And often, we need help but no one knows it. For many of us, …
Your Daily Rock – Think Fresh Thoughts.
“Creativity consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know. To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.” -George Kneller As you go through this day, be mindful of what you take for …
Your Daily Rock – Keep it Very Simple
“Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.” –Steve Jobs Ockham’s razor is a tenet I come back to over and over …
Your Daily Rock – Look Within
“Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.” –Marcus Aurelius Sitting quietly with ourselves is something we too often forget to do. Why is that? Is it because we are afraid of what we might find in that silence? …
Your Daily Rock – Simple Wisdom
“Life is actually really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” –Confucius We are living in a culture of experts, some of whom believe their expert status is assured only if they make their wisdom complicated, so the rest of us will need to rely on them for the …
Daily Rock – Begin Where You Are
“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” – Meister Eckhart We hear a lot about beginner’s mind. But I wonder if we let our striving-for-improvement mentality stand in the way of that way of being? Can we reconcile both at the same time: moving forward and having a …
