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Do You Have Dysfunctional Or Healthy Energy In Your Relationships?

Posted by Jason Fonceca on Dec 4, 2011 in Artists, Community, Relationships, Relationships, Sex As Art | 0 comments

Do you like feeling energized? Do you like passionately giving energy to stuff you believe in? Do you have any idea about the energy going back and forth in your relationship?

I certainly didn’t, especially 1-to-1 partnerships.

I’ve always felt powerful, capable, a genius. I was raised that way, and I like it. I have a history of over-achieving and loving success, and even if people don’t see it, I know I excel. I’m very sensitive to getting the details right and improving whenever I learn something.

I kept failing at my dream relationships though.

Hey! Occupy Wall Street! Change Yourselves!

Posted by Jason Fonceca on Nov 3, 2011 in Abundance, Community, Life Coaching, Success, Value | 3 comments

Article first published as To Occupy Wallstreet: “Change Yourselves!” on Technorati.

Well, their heart is in the right place.

Jon Cavanagh wrote an article for YES! Magazine, telling his personal involvement in 1979's version of Occupy Wall Street. He also explains a long history of 'good people', 'coming together', and 'fighting back'. He applauds these protests and demonstrations, and he does this because he can feel what many of us can feel about these movements:

Their hearts are in the right place.

The Magic Decision You’ll Make About Friends And Success

Posted by Jason Fonceca on Oct 25, 2011 in Artists, Community, Fans & Tribes, Influence, Life Coaching, Personal Growth, Plan For Success, Relationships, Success | 7 comments

Note: This post is longer, more detailed, more honest, more raw, more powerful, and more necessary than anything I`ve ever posted. It is me baring my soul, and it may not be your thing. If you prefer your communication to be stale and professional, skip this. If emotional, emphasized, bolded, honest expression is not for you, skip it. If you want to know the real me, read on.

There’s a lot of buzz going around about ’being authentic’, ’being vulnerable’, and ’putting personality into your writing’.

Consider this post me throwing my hat into the ring, buckle your seat-belts,’cause I expect this to cause a few ripples.

Why?

Because I’m telling you to draw a line in the sand with your family, friends, and clients.

8 Tips On Successfully Approaching Other Artists

Posted by Jason Fonceca on Oct 7, 2011 in Abundance, Art Makes Money, Artists, Community, Confidence, Fans & Tribes, Life Coaching, Success | 3 comments

Collaboration is a monumentally powerful thing to do. How many artists and creatives do you know who actively collaborate? Do you seek out and find other artists, even in other genres, who you can create something beautiful with? Do you have exhibitions or perform together? Do you create blended art and cross-boundaries? Do you want to?

If you want to work with awesome people on awesome projects, you probably want some confidence on how to approach them. Well, good thing it’s pretty easy, and the following tips will give you a solid foundation.

Transforming Destructive Relationships – It’s Improv

Posted by Jason Fonceca on Oct 6, 2011 in Abundance, Artists, Community, Fans & Tribes, Influence, Life Coaching, Personal Growth, Relationships, Self-Improvement, Success, Value | 3 comments

So, I can change people by believing in them, right?

We-ell, yes and no.

This is one of life’s most misunderstood behaviours. There’s one view which says ‘people don’t change’, and there’s another view that says anyone can change, at any moment. So how do we sort out all these conflicting views?

Changing With Others

The way it works is that you change yourself, whenever you’re ready, and then all the people swirling around you have an opportunity to roll with that change, or hate on it. It’s kind of like improv.

In improv, the rule is "yes-and" (and not "no-but"), you affirm and add to whatever the other person is offering. So if we take two people building an improv sketch about meeting at a bus stop, it might look something like this:

How To Lift Off From Friends – It’s Not That Scary

Posted by Jason Fonceca on Oct 4, 2011 in Abundance, Artists, Community, Fans & Tribes, Influence, Life Coaching, Relationships, Self-Improvement, Success | 0 comments

Letting people go. Cutting ties. Moving on. Abandoning them. Oh… it all sounds so horrible, doesn’t it? It’s not. It’s really not. It’s more like ‘blasting off’ and making sure you don’t force a car off the road while you do it.