Check out a post I wrote about great unconventional copywriting books over at Freelance Switch.
Here is my list:
What are yours?
Listen: Beautiful podcast about Zen & Art featuring John Daido Loori, Roshi.
John Daido Loori was the Abbot at Zen Mountain Monastery and a renowned photographer. His take on creativity is powerful and inspiring.
Is yoga becoming just another consumption machine?
It’s a booming business to be sure as new brands pop up at an amazing rate. So what does this mean for yoga?
Will it get usurped by consumerism and lose it’s way in the process?
Or, is the commodification a good thing—a way to widen the audience, increase awareness and grow? Certainly the mainstreaming of yoga can lead to awareness as Oprah and other national sources have put an important light on the health and well-being benefits of yoga.
Others have suggested that the growth will lead to a watering down or stripping away of essential elements that make yoga what it is. At some point is yoga nothing more than another form of exercise akin to Pilates or Kickboxing? That remains to be seen.
Read the post I wrote for Elephant Journal about this topic. Below is an excerpt:
Very fantastic envato productivity site workawesome.com just published a new post I wrote on why everyone needs a manifesto. Give it a read and then write yourself one.
There is an elegant solution for everything. Matthew E. May makes this very argument in his fantastic book The Pursuit of Elegance: Why the Best Ideas Have Something Missing.
According to May, elegant solutions share four common characteristics:
I loved this book. As it applies to aesthetics, we have a lot to learn in this cluttered world in which we now live. Elegance is an art. Knowing what not to say is as vital as what we say.
This is also about space: white space, the space between the notes and carving out a clean, clear space from which great ideas and manifest.
I just published a piece over at the very cool productivity site, WorkAwsome. Here is an excerpt:
Imagine stopping in the middle of a busy work day, kicking up your feet on your desk, sitting back, arms cradling the back of the head in daydream mode. Now imagine that this is one of the best things you could do in the course of a busy work day.
It’s okay, let them stare. Because the truth is that your blank stare at the wall is just what the mind needs to slow down, clear out some of the clutter and give the creative brain the opportunity to open up to better thinking, greater creativity and maybe even the next big idea.
Stop by the site and give the post a read. Give the rest of the site a read, too. You’ll find Work Awesome to be full of great work productivity tips. Plus, it’s a fun read.
I’ve got a new post over at Elephant Journal about my struggle with giving up pizza. It’s my one big, cheesy, saucy, yummy hurdle on the road to being Vegan.
Here’s an excerpt:
I’ve been vegetarian for a couple of years now. I slowly let a vast array of meats fall away as I settled nicely into the very comfortable dairy and eggs only category (octo-lavo-something or other, right?). That was fine for a while. But alas, I now feel a tug toward the next step and find myself faced with the toughest food choice ever: Vegan or pizza?
Sister Dang Nghiem, a nun at Deer Park Monastery, discusses the mindfulness bell, cultivating peacefulness and joy.
This is a beautiful and really well shot video.
(Via Patrick Burke at Vimeo)
