Bike Riding and Creativity. An Interview with Tammy Strobel of Rowdy Kittens

January 17, 2012

I ride my bike all over New York City. It’s an instant mood changer and it has given me an intimate relationship with the weather, carrying groceries on my back, traffic, rhythm, balance, and mortality. All good things from my perspective! Overall, it’s boosted my creative thoughts tenfold because I am relaxed, focused, silent, and [...]

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The Righteous Risk of Creativity

January 12, 2012

It’s impossible to be creative without taking tremendous risk. Creativity is born of doing things that are outside our comfort zone. Most people like stay inside their comfort zones and create from there. True creativity is to do things and express things that you never have before. The bravery of the open daring leap into [...]

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The Buddha Walks Into A Bar.

January 10, 2012

This is a guest post from my friend Lodro Rinzler. Lodro and I will be teaching together at the Shambhala Center of  NYC a 4-week course starting March 15th, 2012 called The Buddha Walks Into A Bar: A Radical Roadmap to Life with the iPhone in Hand. Please email me if you are interested (even if [...]

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How To Be More Creative In 2012

January 3, 2012

Contrary to what many of us think, our brains are NOT filing cabinets. As we sit on the edge of 2012, with our bright shiny goals and aspirations before us, I think we need two main things in our toolbox: Creativity and Systems. Our brains are meant for thinking and creating. What our brains are [...]

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My Swan Song to 2011 and My Beginning to 2012.

December 31, 2011

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Photography and The Plague of Identities

December 29, 2011

Here’s a small slice of video of Roshi Joan Halifax and Jonas Elrod from his film Wake Up discussing who we really are ( the video is at the bottom of the post). In The Photo Essay Project Level 2, we will spend 4 weeks photographing: + those we know and love, + ourselves, + strangers. [...]

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How To Start Off 2012.

December 28, 2011

This week between Christmas and New Years, is for me, one of reflection, intention and power. I am deliriously happy to see 2011 go. For the first time in about 5+ years, I feel unencumbered by the misalignments of relationships that I have played out over and over again in my life. I’m done convincing [...]

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A Holiday Non-Gift Gift! My New Multi-Media Photography Product

December 9, 2011

Stumped on what to get you or your loved ones for Christmas or Hannukah? Announcing The Photo Essay Self-Guided Course Level 1. If you missed out on The Photo Essay Course either because you have a Droid or because you heard about it after the fact, good news has arrived! For a limited time only, [...]

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Re-branding, Re-launching, Re-focusing.

November 1, 2011

One of my favorite sayings of my root teacher, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche is “You can always take a fresh start.” That no matter where you are at any point in life, you can simply just begin again in a fresh way.  I’m doing that here with my business. I’ve been working with an incredible business [...]

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My Birthday Post

October 27, 2011

Today I’m completing my 46th year and beginning my 47th, and I am reflective. I’m thinking of my mother, my father, my siblings, I’m thinking of loss, I’m thinking of my livelihood, I’m thinking of my finances, I’m thinking of the ways I keep backing away from myself, keeping myself away from my greatness. I’m [...]

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