Archive for ‘Lessons Learned’

Does practice make perfect? Well, not exactly. Not the way you tend to think of it. Little factoid about me: I’ve played the piano my entire life. In high school I taught myself to play the organ. It was such a great love of mine that I truly excelled. I was giving recitals and concert [...]

“You know what your problem is? You think you know everything. You think you’ve got it allllll figured out.” You may have gotten this lecture from your parents or teachers, as a kid. If not, you’ve probably seen it in movies and TV shows. There’s a time when youth start becoming adults and seeing the [...]

  Life is full of surprises, isn’t it? When tragedy strikes, and we start asking the ‘difficult questions’. When we wander down an unfamiliar path, and our senses perk up. We’re definitely not in Kansas anymore. Walking through the wilderness we become vividly aware of possible danger lurking around every corner. Like Dorothy and her friends, [...]

When I started taking voice-over training, one of the first concepts they taught was emphasis. Meaning, putting more weight on one word makes it the focus of the entire sentence. They gave us the phrase: Mary had a little lamb, then had us practice emphasizing different words each time we said it. So by saying [...]

Todd Carmichael is a modern explorer who has just proven to the world that persistence pays off! He is the first American to travel — solo — to the South Pole. His journey was 600 miles in freezing temperatures and blistering winds, malfunctioning equipment, and little to no contact with the outside world. But, it paid [...]

Dreams are an important part of our lives. Considering we spend a third of our life sleeping, what happens during that time (dreaming), should not be underestimated. Many aboriginal cultures–present and past–have considered the dream world to be just as real as the conscious world.  I truly believe that while dreaming we tune into our subconscious [...]

I was at the park yesterday, enjoying a nice moment with Nature. The setting was perfect — sun piercingly bright just before setting, a serene pond with birds of all kinds gliding across the still waters, an island with a rustic Asian-style gazebo. I strode up a hill overlooking the scenery. There was one spot [...]

Okay okay, so I couldn’t help myself. There’s just so much fun stuff in this clip!  Poor Alice, usually a normal 5′ something or other, is now just 3-inches tall, and talking to a caterpillar. Not a very tolerant one at that. Wow, her world’s completely upside down. Ever been there before? Your world is [...]