Doing: When You Think of a Task, Do It
When You Think of a Task, Do It When you think of a task, do it as it occurs to you. Here’s the logic behind this thought. There are going to be more things that you are going to need to do per day by a factor of a number with more zeroes than I know how to pronounce, and [...]
Finding Allies: Even the Color Blue
"We have so many allies in this world, including just the color blue in the sky." - David Whyte When Aloneness Sucks There are moments when you're going after a wild idea when it feels as if you are slogging it alone. After all, most of the time, when we're gripped by the energy - the daimon, as the [...]
On the Power of Symbols: Notre Dame
On the Power of Symbols: Notre Dame The Fire at Notre Dame Like millions of people, I am viscerally feeling the loss of the Notre Dame fire. I felt that throb in the solar plexus of a heart hurt, a soul hurt, when I saw the first pictures of the spire engulfed. I stand at a distance from Notre Dame [...]
Fear and Sailing into Infinity
Fear and Sailing into Infinity You’re Going to Feel Fear One of the big rules of going after your wild idea? Fear. You’re going to be scared to death. You’re going to not sleep at night. You going to either – or maybe even both – stop eating all together or eat so much that you think you’re going to [...]
Break the Stick: About Rules and Wild Ideas
Break the Stick: Rules and Wild Ideas In the course of creating Spillian, I’ve found myself regularly chanting particular ideas like a mantra - an idea about whatever it was we were trying to make happen at that time and how to handle its complexities. These burbled up from somewhere, maybe from my toes, maybe from the ground I was standing [...]
Ideas: Inspiration and People I Love
Finding Fuel In an era that can feel overwhelmingly dark and frightening, with catastrophic climate crisis no longer an abstract concept maybe on the distant horizon, leadership that does anything but lead, and a sense that we're all running harder and faster to simply try to stay in place, I look for people and ideas and organizations that offer [...]
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