Art of Happiness

So if you’ve recently found this project or been following along from the beginning you will have noticed the theme of one excuse per week. Yes, that probably could continue to run endlessly but my goal was to make this only a year long project!  So we started with my 26 most common and limiting excuses which wrapped up last week.  Now comes... [Read more of this article]

Ouch – I thought about using this excuse when it came to writing this post (I haven’t thought of what I’m going to say – I’ll get up early and do it tomorrow…)  So forgive me if this isn’t the greatest prose, but at least I’m getting it done!  The refrain of ‘I’ll do it tomorrow’ or... [Read more of this article]

Play doesn't have to create things that make sense In general I would say I lead a pretty creative life, even on a day to day basis. Yet that’s a very different feeling from when innovations are happening left and right with no effort. I had a day where that happened last week and as I thought about how that all came about it came down to... [Read more of this article]

Very few of us go through life knowing exactly what the next step should be. So the refrain of ‘I don’t know what to do’ is not a new one. Yet it’s the battle cry of excuses for those of us that have an inborn need to get it right on the first try. I sometimes think it’s a condition similar to dealing with alcoholism –... [Read more of this article]

We all have moments of self-doubt but when it turns into an excuse not to move forward, face fears, persist in the face of adversity we don’t honor ourselves or our talents.  I admit to uttering the phrase “I must not be good enough” a few times, mostly after seeing an Oprah episode of pre-pubescent kids that have international businesses... [Read more of this article]

It’s probably true – a lot of exciting, important things simply take a long time.  When we use this as an excuse though what we’re really saying is that we either don’t have enough time to achieve it or to enjoy it if we do.  Think back to when you were five or six and couldn’t imagine being as old as twenty. While the... [Read more of this article]

There is an implied stability in anything with three legs that is not present in anything with either two or four. In Jungian philosophy the number three is associated with creativity, self-expression, and optimism. By default a third option will get you out of either/or, black/white thinking and take you into the ambiguous area of maybe’s and... [Read more of this article]