Journaling

If you journal daily, you will soon discover some patterns emerging, revealing both what you really like and what you struggle with. This will allow you to actively research what makes you happy, and to find creative solutions for what isn’t working for you.

Words

When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike. Powerful people impress and intimidate by saying less. The more you say, the more…

Space

We need to find balance between habits that serve us well and space for unbound thinking. Without these two things, creativity might not emerge.

Now

I’m officially trying hard to banish the words “I need this…before I…”.

I want to start now, with what I have.

Besides, in my life as a an artist I used to find constraints very stimulating, so there’s no reason why I shouldn’t be able to apply this to other types of…

Seeds

I don’t think I’d like to write a book, because I would feel like I need to have all the answers, while all I want is to plant seeds, so that anyone can then elaborate them in a different, personal way, and if I’m lucky I’ll get to see what they’ve created.

Pleasure

Why do some things that used to give us so much pleasure suddenly don’t work anymore?

Does it mean we have exhausted everything it could do for us?

Or perhaps we have changed, and we need different things to feel accomplished.

Body of work

We need to be patient to create a body of work. It takes time, and effort and, much more importantly it requires that we don’t feel like we are failing during the process, because we are not; we are simply building something that his bigger than the sum of its parts.

Layers

Each day spent doing what means the most for us adds a layer to how we perceive things, constantly bringing change, often without us even noticing.