One Way to Build an Igloo

I like to read lists. Ten ways to be more creative. Twenty seven tips for mastering anything. Twelve million ways to skin an indigo-tongued alligator. But the thing about tips is..... they're just tips. They're not the foundation. You can read and read and read the lists. What's more important than the list? The first action step. Step one. Write plan. Step two. Follow plan. It's way easier said than done sometimes, but if you can take the first smallest action....then...that's more powerful than The List.  

The List is fun to read and all, but go out and try it. 

Build something. 

Growth.

Bye :)

Dedicated to

Hoover the Seal

Hound Dog Press

Saturday. November 3, 2012.

Fridays

Hello. I hope you're doing well.
It's Friday. Friday is a good day to be alive. Friday usually means freedom for most. wahoo! weekend.

So...today was a good day; hopefully tomorrow will be, too. I've been reading a little book called The Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff. He's the guy who also wrote The Tao of Pooh. Anyway, the book talks about the strength in being weak. Hoff points out how Piglet uses his small size to his advantage.

The part of the book I'm on right now is talking about the part of yourself that wants to be unhappy. It wants to make up some problems that might not necessarily exist. Limiting beliefs, so to speak. Hopefully we can minimize these beliefs... or atleast have the courage to press on in spite of them.

Can you relate to the idea of limiting beliefs? Have you ever had to press on in spite of them? Feel free to comment.


October 26, 2012

Dedicated to:
Spaulding Youth Center



                              



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Today's experiment.

This is an experiment. Simply a continuation of what I do offline. Hopefully this little thing will work; we'll see how it goes. Here's the deal: I make zines. daily. or atleast.... I used to. Just a little booklet once a day to review how the day went. Like a journal. Later I'll post some tutorials for you so you can make your own little daily zine. It's pretty easy. And fun. And good for the soul.

But let's start with today.

Today Hound Dog Press is being expanded.

There's so much to say. Where to even start? Just today. We'll stick to today.

Today I learned about screen printing factories. They smell....bad. Not in the front, and not where the designers work. In the back. Where people pack up boxes to be shipped. Some people have low skilled jobs. Put three pages between two slabs of cardboard. Tape Together. Put a sticker on it. Put three pages between two slabs of cardboard. Tape together. Put a sticker on it.

Put three pages between two slabs of cardboard. Tape together. Put a sticker on it.

Do this for eight hours straight in a room where you don't know if it's night or day outside. With fumes that make you dizzy. And then come back tomorrow.

Some of us are lucky. We don't work in factories. Today I realized how truly blessed I am. Today I learned something.



Did

you

learn

something...

                                         ...today?




I'd love to hear about what you learned. Feel free to comment.

Dedicated to:
Aunt Nancy
         You were
          Beautiful.

September 25, 2012

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