Sometimes, wanting to “be like others” can work in one’s favor. When you’re trying to instill good habits in your child, it can help to point out what their friends are doing. When you want to lose weight, it can help to look around at others who have succeeded, who are currently working toward it, [...]
Potential. The word creates thought us cliched phrases such as “he had so much potential.” and “I see some potential there.”
These phrases conjur a sense of failure, one of falling short of the ever elusive perfection that fulfilled potential entails. This is sad to me, because the word itself is a positive one, but these [...]
My inspiration is all over the board lately, and it’s rather frustrating. Meanbean Bags is doing well, I’m working on a wholesale order, and then back to refilling the shop with new bags. That should be fun, but it’s not. I don’t know why it’s not, and that’s what frustrates me. If I could find [...]
Inspiration surprises me. It pops its head ’round the corner in the most unexpected spots. Sitting here, at my day job, I’m surrounded by half cubicle walls, staring at a computer screen, listening to banal radio chatter and squinting in flourescent lighting. Yet, I am so inspired to just CREATE right now, my hand are [...]
