Dare 2 Feel

My son Alistair and I had fun one afternoon making a film, using one of his action figures:
Being playful is the best way to unlock creative flow. It’s summer time, and I thought of how I felt when I’d play when I was little. The way I felt when I was young glows inside still [...]

There are always 3 Choices in Life.
A choice is not an option. It is a choice.
An option means that I can opt for this choice or I can opt for that choice.
An option is a choice between one thing and another.
Duality and contrast allow different options.
In a dual reality world there are always 2 options.
An [...]

I’ve been thinking of David and Goliath. David was small and young, Goliath a hulking Philistine machine of war. When Goliath insulted David by saying the Israelites were weak and their God was, too, David’s determination to stand up to Goliath was actually a determination to believe God would go through this battle with him. [...]

Grace & Disgrace are a dual reality and a contrasting choice.
From my perspective, something or someone either raises my emotional energy or depletes it.
What raises my energy has grace.
Whatever depletes my energy is a disgrace.
What blesses my life has grace.
What curses my life is a disgrace.
What I see as good for me has grace.
What I see as [...]

This is a page from my first published book, PUP IN SCHOOL (Crown Books for Young Readers). I created this book because when I was teaching at the wonderful The Atrium School in Boston, I noticed that when I wanted to talk about ways we could get along better together in class, using animals rather [...]

The Purpose of Dreams is threefold:

To solve problems
To succeed in challenges
To explore opportunities

Dreams give me the opportunity to solve problems in my life before they occur as problems in my life.
When I find the solution to a problem in my dream, it does not need to manifest as a problem in my reality.
Dreams give me [...]

It interests me how our thoughts are like holograms in our minds, or movies, just a few actions away from becoming “real”. One decision can pull the holographic idea from mid air, into your hands. It’s that decision which drives the creative outcome in a way, because unless we act on our creative drive, the [...]

I never cope with life. I choose to live life.
I either cope with the problems of life or not.
When I cope with the problems in my life, I manage to either resolve them or to tolerate them.
Becoming intolerant of the problems in my life is a sign of not coping with the problems and not [...]

Resilience is the measure of my strength or weakness to resist the negativity of life.
I need resilience to tolerate the problems that continually confront me in life.
Without resilience, I am weak, unable to cope with the problems of life and I am descending into chaos.
Without resilience, life becomes intolerable and I become intolerant of the [...]

Babies are no fools. They sense and see and feel exactly what is going on around them. They’re innocent, though, too, in that they are vulnerable and subject to our actions and choices. And, they’re learning how to deal with motor skills and how to handle all that sensory in-put. They’re amazing. I believe the [...]