CreativeMornings ™

Go towards those dark places and be curious about what’s in the shadows because those dark places are ultimately the sources of a lot of real and compelling human expression.

If you’re trying to create something powerful with a lot of impact, you have to be willing to lean into that discomfort.

I have found the importance in carving out space for things that don’t necessarily have a clear purpose or an obvious logic.

I think of taking a risk as an experiment, and there’s lots of different outcomes that you can get from that experiment. Whatever outcome you get, you learn something. There’s wisdom, there’s knowledge, there’s life experience.

Give people information so that they can take action and make a difference.

Don’t play it safe – take risks. Do something different. Get out in the community and talk to them. Find out what they need, what they want, and do it.

Ideas are pointless if you don’t act on them.

We have got power! By controlling our environment and lifestyle, we have got the power to control which genes will be expressed, and which genes will be silent!

We live in a world where "medicine" has become toxic, "food" has become nutritionally depleted and heavily contaminated, and "toxins" are bioaccumulating in the body and passing from generation to generation.

About 200 years ago, "survival" was a completely different concept!

This is the issue we have to understand, take it on board and actually accept it - yes this is the challenge of our society, but there is so much we can do about it!

For example, type 2 Diabetes didn't exist in children at all a few years ago, and now its growing with a 3.5 annual rate.

This is maybe the first generation of children to have a shorter life expectancy than their parents.

Don't underestimate the power of 'thank you for bringing that to my attention.' I will work on that.

Nobody can give you the identity you want. You have to determine what it is, and you have to validate it yourself.

Because the answer is; I can do anything

I learned to organize the priorities in my life because—trust me—there’s nothing like a timeline to get a fire going under your butt.

I learned to let go and I learned to forgive.

I realized that every single hard moment of my life had another side to it, and that I could see it if I would only let myself see it.

Definitely get out and have lunch and get away. Because it is very important, it resets your brain. Getting through the trough period—the only way to do that is to get out and go for a walk.

The gap between expectation and reality is where pain lives. And that's what we're scared of admitting. It's that we had an expectation, and it bumped against reality. And it hurt.

"I wasn't born to do this work; I survived to do it."

It's not going to be easy. But it's going to be worth it.

What we’re doing is we’re using all of our creativity, and all of our bravery and honesty and courage. So I ask you, in your next project, in your next effort, how can you do this? How can you help us see and feel the future? See something distant and far away?

Why does it work? Again, we’re carrying our trash. We’re helping people see the delayed and distant implications of their actions in a way that is meaningful, that touches hearts…and helps compel people to action in some powerful way.