Tag: writing prompt

  • Using mangoes + Oprah’s money as opportunities for self-inquiry

    I have this thing that I call “spending Oprah’s money.” It stemmed from a conversation I was having a while back about Oprah clapping back on Twitter one day. Someone asked when she was going to start giving back to America’s ghettos. “When are u?” she asked.   In my…

  • How to de-vilify your flaws and weaknesses

    This past Saturday I facilitated a writing workshop with a group of businesswomen. It was an awesome event from beginning to end, but there were two instances that stuck out in my mind and have since come up again. I took that to mean that I gotta talk about it.…

  • How to deliberately make more space to design the next level

    My car was stolen last Friday and I was in between vending spaces, so I had all kinds of goods in the trunk: all of my books, a few paintings, crystals, collected rocks and seashells, and more. Every time I’d remind myself that Universe makes no mistakes, something else would…

  • New moon ritual: how to release baggage that crept into the new year

    Anais Nin once said, “To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally, one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one’s mind and the psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living…

  • Write your novel 10x better with Myers Briggs

    If you haven’t already, take the Myers Briggs personality test and discover your own MBTI personality type. Of all tests I’ve done, this one is, by far, the most accurate. I’m an INFP, and if you’re familiar then that gives you a great sense of who I am. Then I…