It is still scary to stand up in front of a roomful of people and speak my story out loud. I am going to have to get used to this since my dream is to complete my memoir. The trauma that was my little secret, the dark parts of my past, everything I kept hidden [...]
About Lisa Powell, Author & Serial Traveler
Lisa is a freelance writer, consultant and life coach. She has her BA in English and Creative Writing from Princeton and her MPA from Harvard. Lisa recently finished the first draft of her book manuscript, Burning Down the House. Her dream is to publish this first book and teach the world how to successfully go after their dreams. She is also a lindy hopper, belly dancer and globe-trotter. Her post day is Tuesday. +Lisa Powell Graham lisa.powell.graham@gmail.com Lisa Powell Graham
Celebrating The Women In My Life As I Live My Dreams
Frankly, I’ve always been boy-crazy, crushing on boys for as long as I can remember, chasing freckle-faced boys around the kindergarten playground as a pigtailed five-year-old to steal smooches. There are still few things in this world that thrill me more than a sweet kiss from a man I’m crushing on. Thump-thump, thump-thump, thump-thump, goes [...]
Taking Time Off Helps Us Live Our Dreams
This week will mark another big milestone for me in the process of writing my book – 150 pages due. I’m 135 pages into it. I likely should have spent part of last weekend writing. And I didn’t. I didn’t write. I didn’t answer emails. I didn’t do any work. . . I played. All [...]
Feeling The Need for Speed As I Live My Dreams
Just call me “Miss Troy.” Tonight I’ll put on a slinky red dress, white knee-high gogo boots, bright red lipstick, and an Uncle Sam top hat to MC an event in downtown Troy, New York. The event is called “The Need for Speed,” and while the purpose is to help convince Google to bring ultra-high-speed [...]
Dreams Come True When We Free Ourselves from the Tyranny of Expectations
I’ve been falling prey to the tyranny of my own expectations in writing my book – which I want to be inspiring, touching, moving, canonized as great literature, funny, witty, ground-breaking, etc… Yet it can be difficult if not impossible to sit down to write a page if you hold the expectation that this book [...]
To Make Your Dreams Come True, Try Resting
Last week was a happy blur. It was a whirlwind week, full of meetings, client deadlines, writing, workouts, dancing, time with friends. It would have been easy, with all the looming deadlines, to just work, work, work. To forget to play. Or to rest. Now, let me clarify that I did not actually manage to get [...]
Try This Dream Shortcut to Getting Unstuck: Dancing
If you ask me if heaven is where we go after we die, I will say no, heaven is now, it is where I have been this past weekend, gliding across an open expanse of hardwood floor, blues music reverberating throughout the room, lights turned down low, feeling the soul groove, dancing in the arms [...]
To Make Your Dream Come True: Practice Starting Over
Ízletes! That’s Hungarian for delicious, and that was my Saturday night – enjoying Hungarian pastries including Dobos Torta, a nine-layer confection made with alternating layers of sponge cake and chocolate buttercream and topped with hard caramel, and Rétes, a nut pastry made with layers of super-fine dough and filled with poppy seeds (makos). I was at the Hungarian Pastry [...]
Words of Wisdom from Bestselling Author Jodi Picoult
“I want to be able to keep making people open their eyes. I think we all want to change the world, and I can’t do it with a magic spell but I do think I can do it one line at a time.” That’s bestselling author Jodi Picoult on writing. She’s a master storyteller, and [...]
How to Realize Any Dream, One Step At A Time
I have spent the past three gorgeous days in the city of my heart, San Francisco. I flew here last Friday so I could attend a workshop with my writing coach on Saturday morning. I’d completed the next milestone for my book - 100 pages! 100 pages feels significant. I’d never written anything longer than 40 pages before. [...]
How Following Inspiration Where It Leads You Can Create Magic
When I first moved to San Francisco in July 2005, I was drawn like a moth to the lights, people, energy and Bohemian roots of North Beach. This is San Francisco’s Little Italy, and it is where the Beat poets had lived and spouted out their poems, words tumbling out hot and urgent, creating shocking and [...]
How to Have The Most Fun Possible While Living Our Dreams
Today I have been dancing around my kitchen while singing along to La Camisa Negra by Juanes, one of my favorite songs. Because I was working from home, and didn’t feel like leaving the house on this very rainy, gray upstate New York day, I did this wearing plaid pajama bottoms, fuzzy purple socks, and [...]
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