We are all creative by nature. How well you express your creativity, whether it be in your art or your "life as a work of art" depends on a variety of factors. But one stands out above and beyond all others...
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Key to Creative Expression
We Are More Capable Than We Realize
I came up with my business name, Untapped Genius, one day while I was thinking about some of the people who have crossed my path. I thought of how brilliant people are, in their own unique way. And I’ll tell you, I’ve met some interesting ones ...
Yellow Monarch Butterfly
My First Intentional Synchronicity
Back in 1997, my friend, Donna, and I were hanging out in my car talking when she reached down into her bag and pulled out a tape.
"Here, listen to this. It's about this thing called Law of Attraction. It
basically describes how the universe will reflect back to you what you think
most about. Now, keep an open mind, Carl. You never know what could happen."
You have to know that I was in a deeply cynical phase in my life, and I really didn't want to have anything to do with anything new-agey or spiritual...
Bury the Beat
How the Drummer For Billy Idol Gave Me the Key to My Music & Life
Day one of “rock drumming” class at Los Angeles Music Academy, where I was studying percussion. I’m sitting in the first row of about 80 drummers feeling a bit out of place - being a hand percussionist, I knew the conga, the djembe, pandero, but not the drumset. So I figured what better way to get into it than by putting myself front and center. Little did I know that this would be the day that lead to the single most important discovery of my life ...
Day one of “rock drumming” class at Los Angeles Music Academy, where I was studying percussion. I’m sitting in the first row of about 80 drummers feeling a bit out of place - being a hand percussionist, I knew the conga, the djembe, pandero, but not the drumset. So I figured what better way to get into it than by putting myself front and center. Little did I know that this would be the day that lead to the single most important discovery of my life ...
Uplifting One and All
The Mamemba Tribe in South Africa
Allowing versus disallowing, a yes vs no, impacts us on a personal as well as a larger community. Here’s an excerpt from a journal by The Peace Pilgrim (read by Wayne Dyer):
When a person acts irresponsibly or unjustly, he or she is placed in the center of the village ...
Ezmeralda
My Favorite Synchronicity Story
We had 12 hours until we had to find a new home for our girl, Ezmeralda. Being a red-nosed Pit Bull puppy dog, she was the target of my friend Clayton's landlord. Hysteria had set in after a Pit Bull recently attacked a young girl in Los Angeles, and in response, people had already killed over 200 Pit Bulls in just a week.
Twelve hours to find a new home for the pup or else...
We had 12 hours until we had to find a new home for our girl, Ezmeralda. Being a red-nosed Pit Bull puppy dog, she was the target of my friend Clayton's landlord. Hysteria had set in after a Pit Bull recently attacked a young girl in Los Angeles, and in response, people had already killed over 200 Pit Bulls in just a week. Twelve hours to find a new home for the pup or else...
