Instead of eating, you discover what’s eating you. –Julia Cameron Julia Cameron , author of The Artist’s Way, found herself 50 pounds heavier after being placed on a new medication. What to do? She found the answer in her own work after noticing that students taking her 12-week course in writing often left the class thinner than when they began the course. 

Every writer I know swears that chocolate is one of the best antidotes for deadline stress. Now there may be proof of their assertions from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. To read an overview of the study, click here . ...Tags: Tags: stress management writin

Our bodies consist of billions of molecules. Stories, on the other hand, weave the fabric of our life. Do you know what your story is? What shapes meaning and drive in your life? Many of us do not but we can learn through the use of a personal writing practice, just 15 minutes a day three times a week.

Just 15 minutes a day, 3 times a week We teach what we need to learn, We preach what we need to do, and We write what we need to know. –Ellen Taliaferro, MD Did you know that medical research now validates what many writers have asserted for years: writing heals?

by Maureen Minnehan Jones Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope . ~ Author unknown Is there enough vaccine to prevent and stop the swine flu (H1N1) or an epidemic in the future? Right now the pharmaceutical heaven is wavering! So how

TED has earned a lot of attention over the years for many reasons, including the nature and quality of its short-form conference presentations. All presenters lucky enough to be asked to speak at TED are given 18-minute slots maximum (some are for even less time such as 3- and 6-minute slots). Some who present at TED are not used to speaking on a large stage, or are at least not used to speaking on their topic with strict time restraints.

Exposing ourselves to traditional Japanese aesthetic ideas — notions that may seem quite foreign to most of us — is a good exercise in lateral thinking, a term coined by Edward de Bono in 1967. "Lateral Lateral Thinking is for changing concepts and perception," says de Bono. Beginning to think about design by exploring the tenets of the Zen aesthetic may not be an example of Lateral Thinking

Most people do not really think about design and designers, let alone think of themselves as designers. But what, if anything, can regular people — teachers, students, business people of all types — learn from designers and from thinking like a designer? And what of more specialized professions?

Presenting while people are tweeting is challenging – but also adds a new dimension to the presentation experience for your audience. Gradually tools are being developed to make it easier for you as the presenter to manage the backchannel. I

People often ask if technical or science-related presentations can be as compelling as presentations covering other less technical topics. Now, not every presentation has earth-shattering, Nobel-Prize winning significance, but I assume if you are talking about your research or current issues in your field, etc. that your words have a benefit for someone else.