The Age of Ideas: Unlock Your Creative Potential

Success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s…

Moonlight. Ladybird.
The Disaster Artist. 
A Most Violent Year. 
It Comes at Night. 
Spring Breakers. 
The Lobster.
The Florida Project. 
Amy.
Supersonic
Ex Machina. 

Almost every movie that has meant somethin…

When I was first appointed chief marketing officer of a hotel com- pany, I was presented with an interesting situation, one I’m quite sure many marketing professionals have experienced in some form o…

Sharing puts the audience first, while advertising or marketing in the classic sense of the word is selfish—it puts the needs of the indi- vidual or organization first. To be a great creator, to shar…

In the Jewish religion, a bar mitzvah is the ritual induction of a boy into manhood at the age of thirteen. It’s recognized as the time when he, not his parents, becomes responsible for his actions. 

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Ted Williams was an exceptional baseball player. During his nine- teen years playing for the Boston Red Sox, he made seventeen trips to the All-Star Game, was twice named the American League MVP, was…

The ultimate step in your manifesting process is to take your brand and turn it into a product and your storefront(s).

Your product is a good, idea, method, information, or service created as a result…

Practical Magic

Keeping our bedrock principles of manifesting in mind, now let’s get into some practical information, starting with a step-by-step look at how to manifest your ideas.

Step #1: Define Yo…

Manifesting starts with believing. Pablo Picasso’s mother said to him, “If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.” Instead, he became a painter, an…

Our goals can only be reached through the vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

—Pablo Picasso

The Designer B…

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. —Tom Brady, quarterback, New England Patriots

Capitalism harnesses our selfish desires …

I was 18 when I first started working at a restaurant. I was a dishwasher. I only got the job because I wanted to go to Ibiza for vacation, and washing dishes was the only job I could find.—Chef Ferr…

Going through all this adversity, going through all this difficulty, is what defines you. I’m just thankful to be cooking.

—Chef Danny Bowien

It was October, 2013, and Danny Bowien had just received wo…

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

—Joseph Campbell, author, The Hero with a Thousand Faces

We are part of a universal cycle of birth, transformation, and d…

Take it that you have died today, and your life’s story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given you as uncovenanted surplus, and live it out in harmony with nature. —Marcus Au…

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

- Lao Tzu

As Rick Rubin demonstrates and the Creator’s Formula explains, to discover your purpose and u…

People are so different. It’s almost like you need to go through the process, discover and unlock what it is that makes that band that band. And a lot of times they don’t know it.

—Rick Rubin, music p…

There’s really no secret about our approach. We keep moving forward—opening up new doors and doing new things—because we’re curious. And curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. We’re always explor…

Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world. 

—Paulo Coelho, author, The Alchemist 

The greatest challenge individua…

A few years ago my therapist asked me, “What do you want out of life?”  I said the first thing that came to my mind: “I want to be successful.” He looked at me, puzzled, and replied, “What do you mea…