Lynn Carnes

Peace of Mind or Pace of Mind?

This past weekend, I was in California for the Equus Film and Arts Festival. (And my book Dancing the Tightrope and podcast Creative Spirits Unleashed each won Winnie Awards!) On the last morning, Bruce Anderson and I were scheduled to do a presentation in the hotel, after doing daily demonstrations in the round pen the

The Personal Power of Gratefulness

We have more to be grateful for than we can imagine. Let’s start with running water. Watch a movie set 200 years ago and you will be reminded that every bedroom was equipped with a bowl and a pitcher. Why? Because that’s how one took care of water needs in the old days. I’m a

Choosing to Spend Time Well

I know how much money I have. (Well, sort of, given market swings!) I don’t know how much time I have. Looking at time as my most valuable resource is not a new idea to me. However, it popped up somewhere in my social media feed in the last week, just as I was having

Discipline vs. Creativity

Learning to fly has brought me a new appreciation of the role of discipline as a critical mental (or invisible) tool. For the last twenty years, I’ve been working to unleash my creativity. Frankly, I have enjoyed leaving behind the rules and parameters of the accounting and banking worlds that formed my early career. Suddenly