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Dec.19.2010
I often think how I would live if I was dying. Would I set out for the horizon, leaving nothing but faded memories behind? Sometimes, I wish I was dying. I wish I could be able to love life and everything around me. What does it take for one to see the beauty of the world? Do we have to experience...
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Nov.12.2010
I started a new blog a couple weeks ago and today I'm thinking about taking down my posts and starting over with it. Why? Because although I'm passionate about my writing, I'm just not that keen on the topic I picked for the blog. I'm interested in it sure, but when I wondered why I was...
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Nov.01.2010
Election time brings it out, I suppose: the deafening clash of certitudes. However vainly, I find myself wishing to hear a candidate ask a question without a foregone conclusion, actually engaging us in discovering new answers. But no matter how clueless they may feel inside, politicians act like...
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Sep.18.2010
Everybody has creative ideas and dreams. It's the courageous few, through their determination and perseverance who turn dreams into tangible realities, with sustainable consumer needs, and/or purposes in industry or the marketplace.
Playing it safe and doing nothing usually ends with...
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Jul.23.2010
The most searching, most revealing, most important question you can ask yourself as a writer, maybe in life, is "why." Here, we examine how to unlock the power of this question to break writer's block.
To tackle writer's block, ask yourself what about your writing project has you stymied...
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Jul.14.2010
Strong wind carried scents of Queen Anne's Lace, layered over Rosemary. I was a boy in search, but not aware if I'd discover something worthy. I just knew the search was my quest.
Each day I asked myself why, but could not always put words behind it so why hung as a suspended moment that enticed...
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Jul.08.2010
3 questions.
How was your day?
What was the best part of your day?
What are you planning for tomorrow?
Or.
What are you working on?
What is exciting to you about it?
How can I help?
One exercise I occasionally ask my coaching clients to go through is the “3 Questions” exercise. For 24 hours,...
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Jul.08.2010
One of my grad school professors who taught me about consulting used to love telling prospective clients, “It seems like you don’t need any help.” He said this was one of his most effective lines for getting people who claimed they were in great shape to open up about what was really troubling them...
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May.29.2010
Illustration: Sophie Henson
Questions that authors are never asked
As the Hay festival kicks off, with world-class authors being interviewed on stage all week, we invited writers to follow the example of Nadine Gordimer – one of the star billings this year – and ask themselves questions...
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May.05.2010
Questions are the building blocks of writing. The answers to the questions that you ask are what builds your story, particularly the famous 5 Ws and an H — Who, What, Where, When, Why, How.
Earlier we discussed the character-centric questions, Who, What, Why. Now let's consider the others.
Nothing...
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