I have now given up everything in my real life for this screenplay and it’s been a blast. Now I am feeling the pinch of the isolation I’ve created. My friends love the story but can’t really give me any critical feedback on structure, etc.My son, home for the summer from college, is sick of [...]
If you are used to writing books trying to write a screenplay is a mind expander. You must consider all kinds of things you never thought of and get rid of ideas that you always think. Does that make any sense? It is a dance. Get rid of the old thinking to make room for [...]
Playing It Too Safe Some of you during the jump exercise might have been thinking, “Hey, wait a minute, you changed the whole deal.” Yes, I did. Chances are that initially you were thinking about what might happen to you ‘if you took the risk’. When I changed the scenario to include a loved one [...]
Most of us don’t take enough risks. Why? It is human nature to want to feel comfortable, safe and in control. Risk, by its very definition, makes us feel uncomfortable, insecure and out of control. The difficulty in taking a significant risk is that it creates a direct and unavoidable internal conflict. This conflict is [...]
“It is easy to risk. Yet, to take the right risk, in the right way, for the right reason at the right time is very difficult.” IntelligentRisking, Inc. specializes in helping individuals, teams and organizations learn how to reduce their risk through Emotional Intelligence. This process begins with an IntelliegentRisking Inventory which allows us to [...]
Writing my book, IntelligentRisking for Women, has been an interesting journey. I have had the privilege of meeting tons of fabulous women and surprisingly enough men. As it turns out intelligent risk taking is not exclusive to women. Both men and women have the same basic challenges with taking risks. What is different between the [...]