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You Are More Than Your Thoughts – Part II

     Every action began as a seed of a thought in our minds. Beyond that seed, was there another source from where the seed came? If we can tap into that seed, the essence of our being, deep in our hearts of who we are and how we can be our truest potential, and […]

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Battling Your Limiting Beliefs

Battling Your Limiting Beliefs

Fiction writer Yuri Tanaka* thinks she’s nearing the end of her novel. When she’s busy being mom to her two kids or working part-time to support her family, she’s slaved away at this novel. Yet its completion actually worries more than thrills her. “I think I’m actually afraid of finishing my novel,” she says. “When […]

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I Want It All and I Want It Now: Part 2

  Being in a committed relationship with my deadline. Keeping motivated with my passion project is a challenge, especially with my full-time job at KQED. Something that motivates me is participating in arts shows. In the past five years, I’ve done three group art shows, varying in scale from a bar venue to a dedicated […]

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I Want It All and I Want It Now: Part 1

  When your work is your calling, how do you pursue another passion in life? In this growing trend of leaving the daily grind to follow your life’s passion, I wonder if there are those of you who are like me. I have what many call a “day job” as an art director for KQED. Between work […]

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Four Ways to Bulk Up Those Writing Muscles

Day one of returning to my novel after a three-week hiatus. I can’t wait. No excuses. Novel-writing is ON. This is how the day goes. 8:30 a.m. Hit the snooze button one last time. 9:00 a.m. Ooh, breakfast time. 10:00 a.m. Sign up for dubious offer in email inbox. 10:15 a.m. See that friends got published. Have to give […]

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You Are Not Your Thoughts

The trappings of your life are in your head. How do we break free of these trappings? When that broken record’s played in your head for 18 years – how stupid a person you are, or how ugly…or how fat. When all that becomes the frame of our being, how do we unlearn them to […]

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Is The Millionaire Fastlane Possible For An Average Joe?

Is The Millionaire Fastlane Possible For An Average Joe?

Inspired by Brian Johnson’s Philosopher’s Notes, where he summarizes big ideas from his favorite philosophy books into easy-to-read pdf cliffs notes. He’s going on 200 books last I checked. (Check out his work at Philosophers Notes.) I thought I’d give this a stab with a twist of my own. I often read books and forget […]

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Vizjhanti: Act 1

I believe that we can author stories that empower us to express our own truth. This was a gift that my father gave to me. At around age five, I remember handing my father a blank sheet of paper, and asked him to draw a picture of King Kong. He would always draw for me […]

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How To Fund Your Passion Project Series

Introducing: The Fund Your Passion Project Series

Anyone else take the road less traveled by… and then run out of gas money? I quit my steady if not lucrative job to go back to school at the ripe old age of 38. I sat through classes with twenty-year-olds. I realized with age comes not so much wisdom as way slower brain processing speeds […]

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Living Your Most Authentic Life – on more than a penny a day

Let’s face it. We all want to live our dreams — whatever that may be — an artist? a musician? a cook show host? sail around the world? Who would rather balance some big corporation’s books than do something else – anything – that’s more fun, stress-free and where we are in the flow, as […]

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