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Part 1: How to Recognize an Idea Worth Pursuing

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Ideas into Action - and writing in the sand

This article is part of a 3-series. Go here for Part 2 and Part 3.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. Everyone has them. Things we should do; things we should stop doing. Or things we could be doing, creating, producing, changing, enhancing, trying, living, or just dreaming. It does not take a special person to think of ideas. Even little kiddies have ideas — mostly bad ones with consequence but they do have ideas.

A healthy, functioning brain and body has thoughts, desires, opinions, aspirations, and oh yes, emotions. The thought of going through a day without a single idea is unimaginable to me. I have a hard time keeping track of mine, and you know what? [Read more…] about Part 1: How to Recognize an Idea Worth Pursuing

How Big Decisions of Life Emerge in an Instant

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Decisions in Maui

Big life-changing decisions should come about after agonizingly long hours of thinking and plotting, analyzing and scrutinizing, predicting and planning. People should not make decisions that change the course of their life in one day or one hour or one minute. No, not smart and savvy people like you and me and certainly not the type of decisions that reshape the future years and decades of our lives.

Except that more often than not, the biggest decisions do emerge in an instant in time. It takes one look deep in your heart to instantly know the right answer. [Read more…] about How Big Decisions of Life Emerge in an Instant

Life Lessons eBook: A Gift from 108 Bloggers

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Life Lessons Book Cover

Collaboration does not just add up. It multiples and grows exponentially.

Raam Dev asked 40 bloggers to share their Small Ways to Make a Big Difference. He created an incredible eBook in the span of 3 weeks from a café in Nepal. The words from this book have reached as far as one remote village in Asia. He tells the story best but you get the point. [Read more…] about Life Lessons eBook: A Gift from 108 Bloggers

The Whispers of the Pacific Ocean

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Pacific Ocean Waves

It felt as though I was gazing at the Pacific Ocean for the first time and not the 50th time. Few things preserve the true likeness to that first time experience as well as greeting the Pacific ocean.

I had walked in the chill of Southern California morning air with clear intent to photograph the ocean, only to fall to my knees and stare in a stupor at the glorious view upon arrival. Calm and quiet waters, slow and steady waves, I felt as though I could meditate forever simply by looking at this vastness that is before me. How splendid the feeling that everything stops to matter in the grand scheme of things, if only for a few delicious minutes. I was feeling light and heavy, free and chained, loved and lost. Time was slowing down and disappearing into the magnificent morning light, into the breeze and into the crashing waves.

I was at the mercy of this overwhelming feeling and I loved it. [Read more…] about The Whispers of the Pacific Ocean

How to Awaken, Build and Guard your Dreams

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Light up your dreams

How to Awaken a Dormant Dream

Have you ever had a dream so strong that you spent your waking hours toiling away as if there were no tomorrow, as if today was all you had?

Have you known a dream so alive inside your every cell that you were afraid to fall asleep lest you do not wake up feeling the same way?

Have you had a dream so firmly grounded in your mind and so permanently tugged at your heart that it was simply impossible to abandon it, even against the worst odds?

If you thought you had a dream but these questions did not resonate with you, don’t lose heart!

Your dream could just be dormant, sleeping under the surface waiting desperately to wake up.

My dreams, I shoved down so deep and so harshly for so many years that it is a miracle they did not abandon me in the way I abandoned them.

Do not abandon your dreams. [Read more…] about How to Awaken, Build and Guard your Dreams