5 Exercises to Improve Your Storytelling Skills

5 Exercises to Improve Your Storytelling Skills

Football players practice ballet. Pianists repeat small sections of music until it’s perfect. In “Outliers,” it’s called “putting in your 10,000 hours.” In “The Talent Code,” Daniel Coyle names it “deep practice,” small exercises that are both challenging and...
Unlocking the Power of Solitude

Unlocking the Power of Solitude

It sort of does look like a mental health facility, I think to myself. Our ninth-floor condo in Honolulu once appeared sunny and welcoming to me. It was my boyfriend Michael’s biggest complaint, one that I laughed off as pickiness. Now the walls seem to mutate in...
3 Ways to Turn Nothing Into Something

3 Ways to Turn Nothing Into Something

In order to turn nothing into something, you’ve got to start with some ideas and imagination. Ideas that become so powerful in your mind and in your consciousness that they seem real to you even before they become tangible. Imagination that is so strong, you can...
Discovering Your Purpose and Your Dream’s Purpose

Discovering Your Purpose and Your Dream’s Purpose

10 Questions for Discovering Your Purpose From the Inside Out It’s time to roll up your sleeves and dig into the underlying qualities that define your purpose. In this exercise, answer the following 10 questions as fully as possible. Your answers may relate to your...
6 Books That Will Help You Create a Better Future

6 Books That Will Help You Create a Better Future

1. Why Are We Yelling? The Art of Productive Disagreement By Buster Benson These are two things that might surprise you: No. 1: You don’t have to be right all the time. No. 2: Disagreements can actually be a good thing. In his first book, Buster Benson dives into...