Stillman Says
  • Home
  • Know Matt
  • Praise
  • Books
  • Blog
Select Page

Snail Surplus? Might be Duck Deficiency: On being present to difficulties. Sometimes I just listen.

by Matt | Not Easy To Categorize, Personal Development & Spiritual Work, The Experiment

There are inscrutable positions that we find ourselves in. Rocks. Hard places. Swords of Damocles hanging over us…and then it falls. There is this Shangri-La we hope to live in sans difficulties, sans sorrow with abundant happiness. While I certainly agree with...

I don’t think we need to go all the way to 20

by Matt | Conflict Resolutions & Interesting Impediments, Personal Development & Spiritual Work, The Experiment

In the late afternoon a tall blonde woman came up to the table. She was perhaps in her early 60’s. Quite striking looking and, if I had to guess, had Parkinson’s Disease. Perhaps it was something else but she tremored and had that somewhat palsied face. If...

Lean into and heighten your obstacle

by Matt | Conflict Resolutions & Interesting Impediments, The Experiment

Nobody likes obstacles. And things we don’t like we usually try to avoid. On one level this makes sense. If you don’t like spinach, you avoid it. If you don’t like your crazy racist aunt, you avoid her. You don’t like the idea of dying so we do...

Chase Tragedy: Do the opposite of your goals

by Matt | Career & Business, Conflict Resolutions & Interesting Impediments, The Experiment

“This is something else I can blame my mother for – her cancer is ruining my comedy career.” ********** I have been very fortunate to have been involved with the Upright Citizens Brigade since they first arrived in New York City from Chicago in 1996....

Like it or not, you are a Somali pirate

by Matt | Conflict Resolutions & Interesting Impediments, Personal Development & Spiritual Work, The Experiment

What would you do about the pirate situation off the coast of Somalia? ********** There is nothing simple about the country of Somalia on the eastern Horn of Africa. It achieved  independence from Britain and Italy in 1960 and because of its important strategic...
« Older Entries

Recent Posts

  • Snail Surplus? Might be Duck Deficiency: On being present to difficulties. Sometimes I just listen.
  • I don’t think we need to go all the way to 20
  • Lean into and heighten your obstacle
  • Chase Tragedy: Do the opposite of your goals
  • Like it or not, you are a Somali pirate

Recent Comments

  • chrisXwolfe1 on Chase Tragedy: Do the opposite of your goals
  • Sonya76 on Like it or not, you are a Somali pirate
  • mstillman on Chase Tragedy: Do the opposite of your goals
  • chrisxwolfe on Chase Tragedy: Do the opposite of your goals
  • mstillman on Lean into and heighten your obstacle

Archives

  • December 2017
  • September 2014
  • October 2013
  • September 2013
  • July 2013
  • April 2013
  • May 2011

Categories

  • Career & Business
  • Conflict Resolutions & Interesting Impediments
  • Not Easy To Categorize
  • Personal Development & Spiritual Work
  • The Experiment

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org
  • Facebook
SUBSCRIBE HERE TO RECEIVE CREATIVE APPROACHES IN YOUR INBOX© Matthew Stillman 2023 | Brand Design by Your Life's Workshop