Don’t wait for the right opportunity: create it. – George Bernard Shaw
Each time we listen to someone, really listen, we validate that person and his or her story. In doing so, we show great respect for the person. I know it is the way I want to be treated. In this 2 minute YouTube video psychologist Carl Rogers gives us great advice on how to listen.
Here is more advice for writers from one of today’s great fiction writers, Daniel Silva. In this brief talk, Daniel Silva shares with us how approaches the plot and character development. I hope you learn as much as me from this wonderful author.
If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. ~ Confucius
Each and every one of you has the power, the will and the capacity to make a difference in the world in which you live in. ~ Harry Belafonte
We can sleep walk through life. It’s easy when we don’t pay attention to life as it comes toward in the present moment. When we wake up, we see life as it is. It isn’t always pleasant. When we experience life, we experience it’s joy and sadness. We experience love and pain. We experience hope and despair. It’s all part of life. In this brief YouTube video Anthony DeMello challenges us to wake up. Get inspired.
If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere. – Joan Miro
A great writing tip from fiction writer, Lee Child. He tells us about research, and how he writes. I enjoy his Jack Reacher books. I grateful for his willingness to share from his writing experience. Keep on writing. Don’t quit. Write for the joy of writing. If fame and fortune follow, all the better for you.
My life changed when I read Dr. Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search For Meaning for the first time. Dr. Frankl’s work inspired my dissertation and changed how I viewed life. When my wife died, I turned to Frankl’s work and sought to find meaning in my personal tragedy. I found a path when I reread his book and focused on his words, “What is life asking of you?” I knew I had to answer the question if i was to move on. It is a question I pose to you, “What is life asking of you?”
The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart. – Mencius
