In order to be more creative we need to practice our intuition. I believe intuition is a skill that can be learned and developed. Men, especially, in our western culture have not been encouraged as children to be intuitive. Intuition does not necessarily have to be a code word for gay. This skill needs honing [...]

An Easter Watercolor & Song by Randy Elrod & Circleslide “You Are Everything“ Thanks to the great band Circleslide for the song. You can purchase the video at iTunes HERE for only $1.99.

My new friend Jeremy Cowart created this amazing art video called “Easter Portrait.” Derek Webb adds the music. Watch every beautiful second of it! If this was helpful, please share with your friends by clicking the buttons below.

A couple of weeks ago I had the great pleasure of interviewing a hero author of mine via Skype. Tim Sanders was my guest as we talked about his extraordinary book “Today We Are Rich.” Tim was the former Chief Solutions Officer of Yahoo!—the company that changed everything. He also wrote one of my favorite books [...]

Randy Elrod is my friend. Most of the time. Actually the only fissure in our valuable friendship, which I prize, came recently in his blog, “Where are the female mentors?” Where are we indeed. Women were mentoring before the word was invented. We are instinctively relational which is an enhancing quality for effective coaching. We [...]

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand stands as one of the two most influential books of my life. The novel was first published a year before I was born in 1957, Rand considered Atlas Shrugged her magnum opus. The book explores a dystopian United States where leading innovators, ranging from industrialists to artists, refuse to be exploited by government and politically [...]

Numbers. I’ll never forget my financial manager telling me one day, “Oh, I’m a numbers guy. I’m not creative.” Now, this is a guy who creates extraordinary hedge funds, simple but effective spreadsheets, workable budgets, provides financial mentoring, and oh, by the way, plays the piano wonderfully. But because he has an MBA from Vanderbilt [...]

C.S. Lewis had it. Hemingway had it. Jack Kerouac had it. So did Henry David Thoreau, Robert Penn Warren, Langston Hughes, St. Peter, U2, Nora Ephron, Sofia Coppola and countless other Creatives, past and present. Heck, even Randy Elrod has it. So what is it? Community. But not community in the general sense. An intentional, [...]

We need to practice remembering what we have forgotten. Madeline L’Engle says, “All children are artists, and it is an indictment of our culture that so many of them lose their creativity, their unfettered imaginations as they grow older. Remember when you could fly over your neighborhood? Finley Eversole writes, “In our society, at the age [...]

Last week my worlds collided. It’s rare to experience what I call a “crack in time.” Those moments when the world as we know it changes forever. But last week for five short and beautiful days, my worlds of social networking and reality came together. I cannot adequately describe the intense feelings last Saturday afternoon [...]