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Take the rest process even deeper with the latest blog post!

If you guessed that I would be writing about rest today, you would be right. I’ve learned with time that the more you circle an idea, the better you can understand it. So, I circle. I’ve talked all ready about how rest is an intentional action. We choose rest, setting ourselves to the effort with the same sense of purpose that we set ourselves to work. In order to rest well, however, we must have…

Bird's Eye New Year by Emily Lewin (@girlontheband) - closing 2015 & opening 2016 well!

Hello blog community! I’ve been off the blog radar the past few months because I started a very full time job and have been leading a Bright Ideas Collective here in NYC and I’ve missed you all! Last week our group did the following exercise and it went so well that I wanted to share with all of you. The end of the year is a great time to look back and forward because we have a bird’s eye view on…

We believe the boundaries of creative expression are continually unfolding, and have yet to be reached - Bright Ideas Manifesto #10

What would you do if you had no limits? I know, I know, we’ve all heard that question before. It’s been asked so many times that it’s almost become a cliche, but there’s an essential truth behind the question. Asking what you would do if you had no limits begs a question: what if there ARE no limits? (more…)

Organizing the Future by Sarah Bryan

I have a sort of on-again, off-again relationship with organization. When we’re on, I’m a whirlwind of color-coding, sorting, and purging. I become an organizational wizard, forming order from the chaos and reshaping messes into well-ordered machines. Behold! Labels! Files! Sorting stations! I am the Queen of Organizing, and the world is my tidied, well-labeled oyster. And then Organization and I…

   “Memories establish the past; Senses perceive the present; Imaginations shape the future.” ― Toba Beta We humans live in three simultaneous worlds, all of them set on the vast plain called time. We have the past, the present, and the future. I believe we were meant to live connected to all three places at once: drawing from the past, living in the present, and looking forward into the future.…

   “Memories establish the past; Senses perceive the present; Imaginations shape the future.” ― Toba Beta We humans live in three simultaneous worlds, all of them set on the vast plain called time. We have the past, the present, and the future. I believe we were meant to live connected to all three places at once: drawing from the past, living in the present, and looking forward into the future.…

   Henry Ford said, “The only real mistake is the one from which you learn nothing.” He meant that mistakes aren’t intrinsically bad by themselves; they are only a problem when they do not led to new knowledge or greater insight. Mr. Ford was right, of course. No mistaking or failing is without benefit if we allow it to teach us a better way of doing things. This is why it’s good to face mistakes…