What Are Your Small Life Goals?
We parents learn so much from our children. This week, I’m feeling inspired by my daughter who, when she was in college, created a list she called her “Small Life Goals.” Oh, she had her big life goals that had to do with career and family and lifestyle, etc., but her small life goals were...
In the Now There is No Worry
I’ve been reading The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle. I’m only about halfway through the book, but so far, his main point seems to be, stay in the moment. Stress comes from projecting our fears and worries into the future or revisiting our regrets about the past. If you...
What’s a Gift Between Friends?
A friend of mine gifted me a pair of earrings the other day. But there’s so much more to the story than that. See, S started out as an acquaintance, someone I’d chat with now and then at a gathering we both attend, but not someone I had ever spent time with outside of that...
Exciting Changes to the Bursts of Brilliance Blog
This week, I’m letting followers of this blog know that the blog, “Bursts of Brilliance for a Creative Life” is moving from my Teresa Funke & Company website to my new Bursts of Brilliance ™ website as of this week! Subscribers to this blog will continue to receive an e-mail linking them to new content...
Don’t Abandon the Work
This week I heard a quote which ended with this line, “You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.” The quote is mostly attributed to the Pirkei Avot, a section of the Mishnah that is mainly a compilation of ethical sayings by rabbis mentioned in the Talmud....
What Comes First, Money or Passion?
I’m still ruminating over something my loving husband said the other day: “You’re the most underpaid workaholic I’ve ever seen.” He was teasing me, of course, but my mother always said, “Behind every joke is a bit of truth.” See, I just launched my new book Bursts of Brilliance for a Creative Life, which is...
Can You Ever Outgrow Art?
I went with some friends to an outdoor singalong showing of the movie Grease. I turned twelve the summer that movie came out, and my best friend was obsessed with the show, so it holds a special place in my heart. I do recall as I got older, I started to question the suggestion that...
Speaking of Success
Over the past few years, I’ve gotten suckered into watching, listening to, or reading several videos, podcasts, and articles in which the presenter or author promises to dispel common myths about success and tell us how he/she did it differently. And many of them do start to deliver that message. They tell stories about how...