creative flow from compassionate grit
I’m posting today in response to a writing/creativity prompt from Jen Louden. I’m deeply thankful that Jeffrey Davis’ Tracking Wonder sent that prompt to me. I’ll be brief. (So brief that all the SEO...
View ArticleWTF! or Expanding Linguistic Choices for Creativity
As part of #Quest2015 (presented by Jeffrey Davis of Tracking Wonder), Jason Silva — best known as the “shots of awe” guy — offered this prompt: “In what ways might you artfully curate your life in...
View ArticleOffensive – a #poem
In the third prompt for Tracking Wonder’s #Quest2015, Michael Bungay-Stanier asks “Who are you willing to disappoint or offend or upset or abandon… for the sake of the Great Work that’s calling you for...
View Articleheart leaps – an #improv #poem
As part of #Quest2015, Pam Houston provided this prompt: “Sit quietly and ask yourself, what in the last day or week or month has made your heart leap up? Not what should, or might or always had, but...
View ArticleJust Quit
The next prompt in #quest2015 comes from Charlie Gilkey, the brain and heart behind Productive Flourishing: “Pursue knowledge, daily gain. Pursue Tao (wisdom), daily loss.” – Tao Te Ching (translated...
View Articleilluminate
Here’s the next #quest2015 prompt: Which emotions do you feel most guilty about having? Afraid that others might find out? How could you spend this year trying to be open to the emotional window that...
View Articledoodle for joy
Sunni Brown offered us this prompt in #Quest2015: How could you make moments of joy a sacred priority in 2015? What forms will such moments take? Doodle your way into these questions and share your...
View Articleintention
“If you knew that your life’s story will be written based upon your choices and actions in 2015, how will you live?” This prompt in the #quest2015 series from Jeffrey Davis‘ Tracking Wonder is from...
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