Shape Your Dreams
You’ve done it! You’ve had a brilliant idea. It is literally going to change the world for.ever. With a few nifty ideas in your head, you buckle up your tool belt, roll up your sleeves and start building! This dream stuff is easy, right?! Not so fast nacho. Remember that we are on a creative journey here, if you start off without a plan chances… →
What is creativity? Where do our stories come from? It is something that I will be unable to answer here with these few short paragraphs. Creativity has been the focus of several major neurological studies and a topic that has been written about in countless books. Some will have you believe creativity is an act of divine inspiration, others that it is a harmonious dance… →
Hi there, this is Teller. We have a yearly topic here at the DreamAnvil and September is the best time to sit down and have a chat about how we create. You may have wondered why The Dream Anvil’s logo is a steaming, glowing, rainbow ring of greatness. Why not something, you know, like an anvil? Well it’s time your questions were answered! What? You… →
We all dream, yet at the same time we wish it could be easy. Every one of us wishes that our dreams would come about as easily as breathing. We watch the Olympians compete for their medals and a small part of us all think that we could do that. Sometimes it’s the opposite reaction, we see the finished masterpiece and think that we could… →
This Sunday the Olympics will come to a close in Rio and with it the countdown begins for the 2020 summer games in Tokyo. Last week I wrote that the Olympics were humanity’s greatest stage and one of our greatest dramas. IOC estimates half the world’s population will have watched the games in Rio and this year’s games did not disappoint. Michael Phelps walked away… →
Every four years, for 16 days, the world comes together as one in the spirit of competition. Nation after nation arrive in one location to claim their place at the top of the winners podium. Upon humanity’s largest stage step the dreamers, the brave, the ones who have dared to believe in the impossible. It’s time for the summer Olympics! As most of you… →
The other day I was crawling through traffic listening to the radio when a singer came on to talk about her latest hit single. In the interview, she spoke of how she was on her tour bus after a show and the song just kind of popped out of her. I was tempted to think about how great that must have been; to have a… →
Last week we talked a lot about slowing down, taking the time to do things right the first time. I often have a fascination with getting things right. After all I was trained at an early age to engage the world and its problems in this way. All throughout our education we are taught that there is always a right answer. There is always a… →
The days grow longer this time of year and yet my ability to get anything done seems to remain about the same. I rush off to work, I rush through lunch, I rush home, I rush my devotions, I rush my writing time. It seems like our lives are about one thing, getting somewhere. We are constantly trying to get to that next phase, to… →
Sometimes it seems as if our lives are stuck in a never ending series of to do lists. They only seem to grow longer with each year as our priorities get shifted around. With all of the day to day items we have to keep track of it is easy to take our dreams, put them on a shelf and say to ourselves, “Tomorrow.” Today… →