The seventh and last of Todd Henry’s Everyday Acts of Bravery: Stay Connected. It’s the simplest and the hardest of the seven everyday acts of bravery. The web today gives us a zillion options to keep in touch with life beyond our four walls: Facebook. Twitter. LinkedIn. Google +. Quora. And those are just the […]
The sixth of Todd Henry’s Everyday Acts of Bravery: Find Your Voice. Like most of these everyday acts, it takes a moment of thought to understand what finding your voice has to do with bravery. Then again, anyone who’s ever stood mute and allowed someone to verbally abuse them understands this concept intuitively. Anyone who’s […]
The fifth of Todd Henry’s Everyday Acts of Bravery: Be Confidently Adaptable. In the Army, we used to say Maintain a rigid state of flexibility. It was a cynical phrase for us, an acknowledgement that things are going to change, the changes probably won’t be for the better, and the CO is going to want […]
The fourth of Todd Henry’s Everyday Acts of Bravery: Know Yourself. I know what you’re asking. It’s the same question that occurred to me when I first heard this one: Sorry–what? How is that an act of bravery? But spend a little time reflecting on it, and it starts to make sense. How many of […]
The third of Todd Henry’s Everyday Acts of Bravery: Step Away From Comfort. I told Todd I’d have this series posted in February. A normal excuse might sound like “life got in the way.” I’m not in control of my life, that line of thinking goes. It’s not my fault. Except it is my fault. […]
The second of Todd Henry’s Everyday Acts of Bravery: Be Fiercely Curious. Curiosity is an aspect of courage I haven’t addressed here before, but it’s critical. Especially if we aspire to create art, seek truth, get people talking. It’s the antithesis of dogma: rather than rejecting anything that doesn’t line up with our preconceived notions […]
The first of Todd Henry’s everyday acts of bravery: Define your battles. When we say choose your battles in the context of life or parenting, we mean we can’t win every time, and trying to is a sure way to accomplish nothing. So we choose which battles to spend our energy on, in the hopes […]
Todd Henry is a self-professed “arms dealer for the creative revolution.” The author of two books and a nationally-known speaker and consultant, Todd is enabling thousands of people to claim the lives they want by embracing their creative efforts. In the information age, creativity, whether it’s art or young minds or computer code or delicious […]