Improve Your Creativity With Baroque Music!
Baroque Music and Creativity Did you know that listening to Baroque Music relaxes you and increases your creativity? Why? The music is usually 60 beats per minute and mimics a healthy heart rate. That is why I listen to Baroque music while I am writing. Purchase your copy of my book and sign up for my blog…
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Clues About Remote Workers’ Personalities and Mindsets
Research about Remote Workers I have added Remote Workers and Remote Learners to the 2nd Edition of What Color Is Your Brain?®. Since the pandemic, we have seen or experienced new and accepted practices of remote working, which have become a commonplace in people’s lives. Telecommuting and/or working from home, or from outside of a…
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“Be the Best of Whatever You Are”
Inspiration for Epilogue I was completing my 4th round of revisions for my 2nd Edition of What Color Is Your Brain?® book and wanted to add a new Epilogue. My Blue Brain always likes to include an inspirational poem at the end my What Color Is Your Brain?® workshops/program workbooks, to encourage the attendees, no…
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Writing with AI
Article about AI I recently read an article in Education Week newsletter. The article was entitled: Brain Activity Is Lower for Writers Who Use AI. What That Means for Students and written by Sarah Schwartz who is a staff writer at Education Week. Studies Researchers created a study by asking 54 student in different groups…
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Not Gone Fishing, Gone Revising!
Not Fishing, I’m Revising I have not gone fishing, since May 21, 2025. I have been revising my orginal What Color Is Your Brain?® book, that was completed in 2007 and had a 2008 publication date. Timeline for Publication I do have a time line for publication of my new book with my publisher Maven…
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Are You Working In An Ideal Environment for Your “Brain Color” Personality?
What Is An Ideal Environement I believe that an ideal environment provides an opportunity for each individula to thrive. Providing a climate where individuals feel safe and free to explore their own ideas and feelings develops their creative problem-solving techniques, enhances their self-esteem and improves their decision-making skills. My Idea Environment Now, that it is…
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How Do You Feel About Uprooting and Transplanting Plants and People?
Your Soul and Brain A gardener will tell you that working in the dirt is soothing to your soul and your brain. Yellow Brain To Do List Today, I finally completed my Yellow Brain Garden To Do List, which included feeding all the plantes in my gardens. I also transplanted the several hostas. I carefully…
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Planning A Family Vacation?
Rivisions Spark Ideas Today, I was working on revisions for the 2nd Edition of my original What Color Is Your Brain?® book. I was revising the chapter about the Relationship with Family Members and Friends. In that chapter, I include Brain Color tips about family vacations. It is that time of year when people are…
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For Arbor Day: If A Tree Falls in A Forest, Do You Hear It?
Our Beloved Elm Tree We have beutiful and beloved Elm tree on our property. She as a double truck, 80 feet tall, and probably 75-100 years of age. Every year we have the aroborist feed her so she does not get Dutch Elm disease. I always complimnet her when I am in the backyard. Because…
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Do You Know How Stop Bully Behavior and Treat Others?
Bully Behavior With all the Bully Behavior in the news, I was reminded of the changes /revisions I asked my publisher to make, in 2012, to my family fairy tale, which is entitled, Princess Shayna’s Invisible Visible Gift. Revisions for Each Village Because of all the terrible incidents of Bully Behavior in the news, schools,…
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“It is Difficlt to Kill Your Darlings!”
Revisions I am in the mist revision of my original What Color Is Your Brain?® book, which made me think about my “Darlings”. In one of my earliest writing classes at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, I learned a critical writing rule, which often is difficult to practice. That rule was Willam Faulkner’s quote: “In…
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10 CANNOTments to Build Thriving Businesses and Relationships!
Build a Thriving Business In my family memoir, No Bunk, Just BS (Business Sense) 50 Timely and Timeless Truth Business School Cannot Teach You, and in the the chapter entitled: Building a Thriving Business and it is Truth #9. That Truth is: CANNOT Can Be More Instructive Than a CAN! 109 Year Old Advise The…
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