Unbalance
About a year and a half ago, I began a committed yoga practice that pretty quickly became an obsession. As in every yoga cliché you’ve ever heard, it truly was, and continues to be, a journey into...
View ArticleDifferentiate or Die
I have twin older brothers less than two years my senior, so my mom likes to say she had three kids in diapers for awhile, and, all told, life was fairly chaotic for her. When we were small and she a...
View ArticleDesign Within Constraints
For most of my early career, I managed to almost completely avoid PowerPoint. And not by accident. As a design medium, PowerPoint is extremely limited, and by extension, quite limiting. Finding...
View ArticleThe Creative Process: Pt 1
There are very, very few feelings that can top the high of a great idea. Seriously. When something clicks in my head—an answer becoming clear, an approach that can differentiate, a script that feels...
View ArticleYou’ll Move Mountains
Self-confidence is a pretty consistently hot topic for women. And maybe, below the surface, it’s just as big a thing for men, but we certainly address it more. Women devour magazine articles about the...
View Article“The Secret” to Creative Work
I’ve never read The Secret so I might be way off base here. But back when Oprah was hot on it, I recall someone telling me that a big part of the whole Secret is visualization: to go about changing or...
View ArticleThe 70% Rule
One of my favorite yoga teachers has said, while cueing various poses, “Make sure you’re only going to 70% of your maximum depth here. Find your 70% point, and hold there.” The first time I heard this,...
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Why I Quit Perfect
I used to put a lot of stock in perfectionism—as the mark of someone genuinely good at what they did, and a necessary trait for those in pursuit of greatness. I did recognize that it’s also an...
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