Don't Throw It Grow It! Book and Free Tip

Don't Throw it, Grow it! (book link amazon)

Generally, let sit is shallow dish of water or partially suspended in water until roots are sprouted and transplant into dirt.

Stop Getting In Your Own Way!

This is a big one for me...

"If you're tired of starting OVER stop giving UP"!

"Fear is a big factor. For me, if I feel fear, I know that is what I must face immediately."
# Carolyn

Once you face your fear, it gets put into proper perspective and you can move on and stop being immobilized by it.

Things get easier when you do the right thing at the right time.

1. important now (do immediately to clear head/stress)
2. not important now (do afterwards and try to take least amount of time)
3. important later (schedule, break down into smaller steps and see what can be done ahead of time)
4 not important later (can you eliminate it completely?)

Best wishes and keep aspiring and developing!

Eight Steps to Success for Achieving a Dream

Be really clear (descriptive) of what your goal is and reflect to see if your steps to achieve it are completely aligned. Otherwise you may suffer from frustration over lack of results and lost time. Example:

Goal > discipline

Step > bootcamp

Question > you can learn discipline anywhere (from culinary school to long distance bicycling). 

Is doing this step [_insert here_] aligned with the big picture dream [_insert here_]?

7 secrets to success author place the no. 1 secret to success as the continued guidance and support from God. I think this is the balancing factor that puts everything into perspective. Also, goals should be beneficial for all otherwise self-seeking gain at the detriment to others will result in detriment to self. 

# Danielle, TEDxTalk - Richard St. John

Art Style Generator - How to expand your style!

"...a new navigator for contemporary works of art created by Charles Morris, which is designed to highlight the current renaissance of everything, showing how the widest range of human experience is expressed in contemporary art.

Art Style Generator allows you to dream up new works of art with any combination of stylistic elements. You can then commission Morris or another artist to create the piece. Art directors and artists are also welcome to use the site to help envision and plan new works of art."

A friend and I are conspiring on getting a group of artists together and practice this with a model or perhaps we'll combine it with the weekend sketching outings. I'll share what becomes of it! :)

Growth vs Fixed Mindset - THE PATH TO SUCCESS

Live Your Legend (Scott Dinsmore) Successful Blog Creation Bulletpoints

"Four fundamentals that must be followed to create a blog that matters:

1. Have a cause worth following. In the words of leadership expert Simon Sinek: people don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it. This goes for buying into ideas as much as it does for buying actual products. You must have a purpose that matters to you more than anything else. And then be able to communicate that purpose, that Why, in a way that connects with others and makes them want to join you. Not because you believe what you believe, but because theybelieve what you believe. Changing the world by doing work you love, is my cause here.

2. Help people. your Why will guide how you help people. If you are not helping others with a massive problem, you should move on to something else, period. Nothing feels better than helping people in a way that’s unique to who you are. Get that right and anything is possible. It begins and ends with serving others. When it doubt, give. Just give. The rest will take care of itself.

3. Write mind-blowing content. Standards are sky high. Fill your site (and others’ sites, via guest posts) with the best you can possibly produce. People will start to notice.

4. Make real connections. The online world runs off personal connections, just like everything else in life. Communicate with people over social media, skype and yes, in person. 

While concepts are simple (they usually are), the implementation can feel quite a bit more complex and requires unbelievable focus and massive hard work (as it usually does).

The reason most who want a successful blog either never have one or it never goes anywhere, is either because they never started or they never knew the right steps to take. Nor did they have the confidence to take them.

Massive confidence (and dedication) seem to magically appear when you know the path you are following is one that’s proven to work."

Our actions do matter on the way to realizing our dreams.

"We do make a difference by our thoughts, our words, and our actions. It is sometimes easier to merely speak about our beliefs and our dreams, than to take action and live them. Yet, if we want our life to change, we need to take that brave step into the unknown. Will our actions reap the future we envision? We do not know. Sometimes things develop differently than we expect, yet we must take that first step, and then the next, and the next." - Marie T. Russell