Category: Ideas
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Make Space to Create
I heard today that “inspiration is for amateurs.” Have you ever heard someone say that they were waiting for inspiration before they started creating something? Yeah, Amateurs. Inspiration can help you to create, but if you sit around waiting for it, it might not ever come. Creativity takes work. Creativity…
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Compliments as Identity Affirmation
Have you ever thought about what a compliment is? Compliments are typically nice things that people say to us that we don’t know how to take. It’s something that we just aren’t good at. I think we’re not good at it because we haven’t thought about what it really is.…
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Hanging Out With Doctors
Have you ever seen the Big Bang Theory tv show? Who’s your favorite character? Sheldon? Howard? Leonard? Rajesh? Penny? Amy? Bernadette? Is there anyone else that I didn’t write down that might be your favorite? It’s a show that we watch. We’ll even watch old episodes that we’ve seen again.…
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Junk Thoughts
As a good Christian person, I think I have only ever thought about my thoughts in terms of right and wrong thoughts. I have never thought about my thoughts in terms of quality = valuable thoughts vs. junk thoughts. i think I heard about this idea on a podcast. Junk…
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Driving Through L.A.
So last Friday I drove though LA. I love Los Angeles. I lived there for many years. I drove in the traffic, and it’s always fun to drive this one stretch of the 5 from the 91 to Burbank. It’s a happy place for me – and if you have…
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Paideia
noun [mass noun] (in ancient Greece) a system of broad cultural education. formal the culture of a society. paideia (Greek: “education,” or “learning”), system of education and training in classical Greek and Hellenistic (Greco-Roman) cultures that included such subjects as: gymnastics, grammar, rhetoric, music, mathematics, geography, natural history, and philosophy. In the early Christian era the Greek paideia, called humanitas in Latin, served as a model for Christian institutions of higher learning, such as the Christian school of Alexandria in Egypt, which offered theology as the culminating science of their curricula. The term was combined with enkyklios (“complete system, ” or “circle”) to identify a large compendium of general education, hence “encyclopaedia.” (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/paideia) I so want this. Well, I want this except for the gymnastics part. I’m hoping…
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A Lonely Place
I heard today that a lonely place is anywhere that a person that can’t appreciate anyone goes. Do you know anyone like that? They might be pretty good with people, but they’re lonely. No one wants to hang out with them because they just don’t appreciate people. These are the…
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You’ll Get It Right the Second Time Around
It’s quite a simple idea and self explanatory. But if you don’t get it right the first time, you’ll get it right the second time around. I guess it communicates the idea that sometimes we have to try things out before we get it right. No matter whether it’s trying…
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Anytime You Create
…..there needs to be intention, thought, and design. Ask anyone that creates, and you’ll find out that creating is not that easy. Sometimes it’s born out of pain and suffering. Sometimes your creation is born out of love and passion. But it’s not easy. There’s is so much that…
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Left Can’t Go Right
You’ve heard about the very simplistic idea of how people can be either left brained or right brained. The lateralization of brain function is an interesting study. I don’t claim to be a neuroscientist at all. I am fascinated by the information though. There are a few things that scientist…
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To Not Care What People Think
……is not an easy thing to do. But just like anything else, the more you do, the better you become at it. It’s a pretty natural thing to have opinions about others so it’s natural that people might have opinions about you. But to get to the point where you…
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Two Ways of Being Happy
I just listened to the Daniel Kahneman TED talk. He talked about how our “experiencing” self and our “remembering” self might perceive happiness. He’s quite brilliant, and I definitely need to hear his talk a few more times and read more about his work. I’m purchasing one of his books…
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