Category: success

  • Make Good Art | Neil Gaiman | Commencement Speech

    This commencement speech is mandatory listening for anyone who hopes to be creatively successful. This is, quite possibly, the best commencement speech you will ever hear.

  • 8 Ways To Get Smarter Every Week

    1 out of every 4 Americans don’t read any books during the course of an average year. For many Americans, learning stops after formal education. The more active your brain stays during your life, the less likely you will be to develop Alzheimer’s disease or dementia. Getting smarter involves a combination of learning new information,…

  • Success and Self-Motivation

    The following article delineates the struggle of Omimu. While the opening line grabbed me – “Most successful people are self-motivated.” – I was touched most deeply by the closing line – “Only in so long as I am fueled by the love for others will I survive.” Omimu | Success and Self-Motivation

  • Commitment, Back In The Game, One Giant Leap At A Time

    It’s been a while since I’ve written. I find myself toeing the line, anxiously awaiting the sparkless gun of my own inspired commitment. I’ve no idea where this line will take me, what will come of this article, but I know one thing for sure. I would not have known its full potential had I…

  • Wisely Waiter on Toady Frogman and the Soup Fly

    Toady Frogman was a notorious lickspittle. Feety Footman’s boots were no match for Toady’s tenacious tongue. Footman promptly promoted Toady to Private Prince and treated him to an amphibious feast. As the wisely waiter set the salty soup upon the table he remarked, there’s a fly in your soup. To which Toady replied, an apple…

  • Shrinking Perspective and One Step At A Time

    When the going gets tough the tough gets going. When life gets rough we’re often told to take it one step at a time. Perhaps most valuable is the shrinking perspective. As the weight of the world is set upon our shoulders, perceptively speaking, it is a relief to focus on just a small part…