An Obstacle Course Mindset To Shine Under Pressure Welcome to October. As I write this we've just gone through two eclipses, a second moon is set to orbit, we're hoping to dodge a colossal asteroid while watching hurricanes take out whole cities, American's favorite icons and celebrities are being exposed as creeps,
The {Unexpected} Path To Everything We Want To Be When I was young, I was quite weird with food. It seemed foreign to my adolescent brain that I should have to take time out of my day to eat. I preferred to stay lost in my activities and when I did finally force myself to take breaks to eat,
Lessons From Fashion: The Benefits of Structure & Suffering "Fashion is the armor to survive the reality of everyday life" Bill Cunningham A disclaimer of Tone: This is meant to be pretty light-hearted despite the heavy implications. Let's jump right in. There's something you should know about me. I have seen ALL 20+
process Artists Get There First: The Link Between Honesty and Clarity When we find ourselves confused about what to do, from personal issues to global ones, we can usually find a fresh burst of clarity when we embark on new levels of honesty. "Any truth is better than indefinite doubt" Sherlock Holmes Honesty is the catalyst for clarity. Honesty
strategy Embracing Paradoxies & Creating Strategies As we wrap up our series, we explore the strategies that hold up under the weight of our toughest challenges, and we review the paradoxes we must embrace if we're to flourish on the other side of difficult times.
process The Truth, The Lies, and A Wise Mind We step into our power when we learn to take control of our response in the face of all that we cannot control. A wise response is a game changer when you're used to constant reactions
process Playing the Hand You're Dealt: How to Flourish In Hard Times This mini-series will help equip Game Changers everywhere to stay safe, expand in the toughest of times, and Flourish regardless of circumstances.
collective consciousness Lessons From Nature: Real Talk for Re-Wilding Game Changers This is the Game Changers' way: to wake up to who we are, to go through the process of living it out to its fullest in this time. We the People who accomplish this will determine the Great Story of our time simply by returning to our true designs.
performance Summer Self-Care: Back to the Basics In times of big change and transition, the basics of self-care cannot be neglected. As a group, we continue to face a big year ahead. We loom on the edge of great change, transition, and unexpected realities.
Different Rules for Different Worlds: A Visual Story I've spent my entire adult life working with clients in some capacity. I started before I was an adult. You could say I was born into it. My life is intertwined now with the very process of all those who work with me; it's a rhythm
Performance: Play Your Note Imagine you awake from a long nap and you realize you're on another planet. There are other people on this planet—lots of them. You can tell they're from different places, races, and cultures. As you explore this strange place you realize that you were selected,
The Birds, the Fishies and the Flowers A Tale of Rebirth in the Face of Continual Change I was born on Mother's Day. Every year my birthday and the day we celebrate Mothers are either shared or very close together. I became a mother for the first time a year and a half ago. It
The Rules for (r)Evolution "Previously on The Game Changers Blog (announced in Netflix recap voice)"... The story started with a creative way to outsmart doomsday and then turned into a discussion on the Movement that's begun, I called it the Quiet (r)Evolution. Basic recap: Big things are happening. Epic
millenials Becoming Millennials: A New Story for the "Worst Generation" Here's the thing: if we accept, even passively, that we're Peter Pan and the Lost Boys, if we let the subtle thought that we're behind, we're late, we're born in the wrong generation, or even that we're royally effed, then we may miss the true gem of our existence.
The Art of the Inner Villain: New Prompt “No one just starts giggling and wearing black and signs up to become a villainous monster. How the hell do you think it happens? It happens to people. Just people. They make questionable choices, for what might be very good reasons. They make choice after choice, and none of them
Performance and the Three C's We take a break from our regular scheduled programming to discuss the Game Changers Summer Challenge: Performance and The Three C's. YOUR PERFORMANCE What's your area of performance? We all have many. Each arena of life is a different stage on which we are cultivating our
The Movement: A Quiet (r)Evolution We recently discussed the creative way to avoid doomsday. I left off with the promise to continue the conversation by explaining how something so simple could achieve something so impossible. Simplicity is complexity resolved. Today, on our path to discovering how we achieve the spectacular result of a better world
A Creative Way to Outsmart Doomsday: The Power of Process Art In a loose adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘Taming of the Shrew,’ the 90’s cult classic ‘Ten Things I Hate About You', does a lovely job of exemplifying the limitations of modern language in a memorable scene between two teenage girls discussing the difference between ‘love’ and ‘like.’ Bianca:
Time-Induced Anxiety: Slowness is a Kindness Time is about to get weird. Really weird. I crave quick change, all the time. I dream big and expect my efforts to produce near-overnight results. I have a long history of getting frustrated when things don't go quickly. Society knows this about me, it knows this about
The Elephant in the Room A long time ago, in a faraway country, long before the internet, and even before pictures in books were commonplace, a small group of people had a fantastical experience discovering something 'new'. Some Hindus had an elephant to show. No one around had ever seen an elephant. They
Experience An Open Secret: The Power of Imagination & Creation I'm not going to delve into the insane way our brains and bodies are designed to react to the simplest amount of art. I'm not going to write an article about the secret sauce for this critical junction of time. I'm definitely not going
Introducing: No Man's Land Many moons ago I found myself staring at an old friend in the Pastor's office. I had sat in this office many times before when my father was the occupant. My parents started the church after I was born. Twenty-five years later they stepped aside for a new
Top Question: What Are We Supposed To Do? I feel the pressure of a great shift. Things are messy. The world seems unstable and dark. Going about my business while the world changes drastically around me feels more and more surreal. The questions are building. As the next chapter of this story slowly unfolds, I often wonder '
Performance and People Pleasing Performance is about intentionally developing any part of yourself; it is the ongoing process of expansion leading to the full expression of who you are. This expression is developed through your craft, your passions, your calling, your business, your family- performance is actively choosing growth instead of quiet decay. If
Performance Tip: Be A Character Simplicity is complexity resolved. Keep that in mind as you read these ridiculously simple tips to boost your performance in any arena. First, a brief pre-frame. Improved performance is simply 'to do better'. It can be applied to anything we care enough about to put in the effort
