During a recent acting workshop with the gracious and gorgeous Gabrielle Scharnitzky, I learned the importance of asking ‘Why’ above all else. The motivation of the character informs everything that follows. Ask yourself what the character believes (the ‘why’) and the actions (the ‘what’) and the […]
Image via Wikipedia Fire, water and earth are not complete without the wind to caress the surface of all three. Wind is pushy oxygen that moves us. Fire needs it, but not too much lest the flame burns out. Water needs it to feed the […]
Image via Wikipedia We’ve talked of fire to feed your passion. We’ve spoken of water as a necessary element. What about the earth? It’s kind of hard to rush through a Nature walk. It doesn’t take long to slow down your pulse as you immerse […]
Cover of The Alchemist Water is an element we cannot live without. About three-quarters of the Earth is made up of water, as is the human body. Taking a bath is a luxurious thing. But stay in too long and you get waterlogged. Too much […]
Image by slworking2 via Flickr Fire can teach you a lot. Get too close and you’ll get burned. Walk too far away and you’re left in the cold. Make it too big and it destroys everything. Starting a fire requires a certain technique. You need […]
Embryonic development says it all. We develop our heart and our eyes before our brain. Yet how many of us actually see with our hearts? Children do. Many of us adults do not. At some point in our human development we center ourselves around the […]
Occasionally my parenting and lifestyle blogs overlap in message. While your relationship with time is the fundamental relationship that informs your entire life, your relationship with money deeply influences it as well. So as you can see, our relationship to money is one of the […]
Yet another reason why multitasking behind the wheel is a sorely bad idea. Get active. Tune in and turn it off!