Outside the Lines #230
When we have hope, we are imagining the possibility of change with our feelings and when we turn our hope into goals, we are visualizing what that transformation should be in order to turn our reality into what we believe will be just right. The same can be also said...
Leave Room #229
The experience of suffering is the most common theme in epic tales as well as music because whether a story is fictional or not or has mystical creatures or involves details that we have never encountered, it is still an authentic and painful emotion that we all feel...
It’s Not Just About the Flowers #228
One of the best feelings that epic tales, music and our lives invoke in us is the happiness that we experience when we achieve a goal and then celebrate that success. Having moments like that helps to strengthen our beliefs in ourselves while also providing the...
Pardon the Weeds #227
If we value and love controversary as well as the messes in any kind of epic story, why don't we feel the same way about them in our own narratives? Is it because it's others who are traversing in the weeds rather than us or is it that they hold the belief of finding...
Person, Place or Thing? #226
Our words may hold the shading effect of our experiences, but we are not limited to what has been living there nor how it has felt. A part of changing ourselves is found in transforming how we have viewed our terms as they relate to and reflect what we believe about...
A Better Story #225
In every engaging narrative there are backstories, conflicts, obstacles and goals that provide the ability for us to perceive of the characters that live there and an understanding of what they have to overcome. Those journeys involve other locations, goals that we...