Be Yourself and Live On Purpose

Curated Collection of Quotes and Lyrics

What’s The Best Form of Self Marketing?

Viva Voce (WOM)

Reflections on a Career Break

For a while I believed I was exempt. I had already survived several mergers and acquisitions over the years…

Kindness.

In the last year I’ve been so inspired by the hearts of strangers. Being welcomed openly into so many people’s lives, forming deep and meaningful connections with perfect strangers, even receiving help from friends and family while stranded in a foreign country. I’m constantly amazed by the human capacity to…

Revisiting Stillness (and how it can be important for writers)

“In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow. And in an age distraction, nothing so luxurious as paying attention. And in an age of constant movement, nothing is so urgent as sitting…

My Drug of Choice: Take a (Lyrical) Hit

“Music is a safe kind of high.”
 — Jimi Hendrix

Get in The Zone Then Step Out

Being in the zone―or in the state of flow―is often associated with a special kind of focus. And that focus…

Redefining “Better”

In Conversations with God, Neale Donald Walsch asks, “But why isn’t living a better life, creating a better life for our children, a good incentive?”

God answered:

Out With The Old and In With The New

“I use memory. I don’t let memory use me.”

Around this time every year, I get nostalgic. I not only look back on the year past but even further.

Live a Little bit More

Do yourself a favor and wake up early.

Seriously. Life can become lot a way better by waking up an hour earlier.

I wake up between four to five in the morning. Enough time if I have to travel for meetings outside the city where I live or…