Archive for the ‘Creativity’ Category

When Your Well Runs Dry

Monday, September 15th, 2008

Whenever we engage in any creative endeavor, we make a withdrawal from our own emotional bank account. If we’re not making periodic deposits, sooner or later, the well will run dry and we’ll find ourselves working harder, enjoying it less, showing less creativity and poorer results.

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Midlife Is the Antidote

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

No doubt, you’ll find me a powerful advocate for that mature, dedicated, purposeful, contented man inside you who’s struggling to get out. Every step you take down the road of Midlife Mastery brings you closer to him. Every drug you let go of makes him more real: more present.

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How Much Are You Leaving Behind?

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

What sets you apart from every other creature on the planet has little to do with your relationships or even your progeny. What elevates you above and beyond pond scum derives entirely from the creative contribution that you’re willing and able to make to the furtherance of humanity. It’s all about your creative legacy.

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The Arts Are a Waste of Time

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

There’s a hunger in the human soul that material things just cannot satisfy, and it’s only at midlife, when you’ve done a good deal of your accumulating, that you begin to notice it. It’s a hunger to create as well as to be nourished by deeper — soul-stirring — meaning.

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