Grab a book from your shelf. Any book. It doesn’t matter what it’s about or how it’s written. Close your eyes, flip through the pages and put your finger down on a random word. Write that word down. Repeat until you have ten words in…
Author: LA Bourgeois
We’ve all heard the hype about newsletters, and everyone wants you to sign up for theirs. So, why should you add your own newsletter to the growing pile? Because your people want to hear from you. That’s it. And that’s really a good enough reason.…
Put some gas in the car, grab a little lunch, and let’s get out of town! Driving places you haven’t been and exploring those little roadside attractions you never visit invites inspiration. Include your favorite person or go alone, whatever you prefer. Instead of using…
Have you watched the Jackie Collins documentary, Lady Boss, on Netflix yet? Yes, THAT Jackie Collins, the internationally bestselling author of novels my friends stole from their mother’s bedside tables in the early eighties, highlighting the “good parts” and sharing surreptitiously in junior high. (How…
Many great artists learned their techniques by copying the masters. Students still set up their easels in the Louvre (at least, they did when I was there in 1999). We often think of copying the masters’ works as something only fine artists do, swirling their…
We’ve always traveled with too much stuff. We don’t just get one cooler; we get two or three. Who knows when you’ll need a cooler, and isn’t it better to get more than one? No. No, it is not. From experience, I say, “Just get…
Do you love those shows where people suddenly burst into song? Musicals whirl us into another place where life is infused with melodies punctuating every wonderful moment. Let’s give it a try on our own! For the next few days, listen for the music in…
During the first weeks of August, it’s easy to feel stuck. These days move slow through the heat, encouraging us to take a moment and enjoy this last full month of summer. People say “slow as molasses in January,” but a better analogy would be,…
Time for a bit of performance art! This week I’m encouraging you to use your imagination to play a little trick on your friends with a ridiculous hoax. We’re all bombarded with weird information these days. The internet throws out tale after tale of things…
To create the thing we imagine, we must continually improve our craft. Most times, this enhancement in our skills comes from pushing ourselves to the next level with experience, but occasionally we get a leg up from education. When all of our experiential knowledge fails,…