Life Nuggets

Today is the last day of the first mini-challenge – writing Brilliance Nuggets for 7 days, we began on Monday (don’t worry – there will be more!) And yes: It is not too late to write yours for today. I will announce the winner of the first-ever Brilliance Mining T-shirt tomorrow. If you didn’t send […]

The mini-Brilliance Nugget challenge has already been a blessing. (You can still participate…) Why? Because I receive such awesome Brilliance Nuggets from y’all. Thank You! Today, the ultimate nugget is about how to turn defeat into big wins! Here is one I asked from my dear friend Lori Fickling. I asked her for permission to

“I know, I know!” – How many times have you heard that? How many times have you said that, or at least thought it? Are you really listening to each other? I think we all have. For sure, I have. Yet, there are at least three compelling reasons why saying that (or even thinking it)

First off, your mini-Brilliance Nuggets touch me! In the 7-day challenge, we began yesterday (you can still join in!), you have the choice to send your nugget to me – or choose not to. What you write might be private. We are playing this challenge via your word of honor. When you say you wrote

Today I’m kicking off a simple challenge: Write down one or two sentences (or bullets) of something that comes to your mind. It can be anything. Do that for seven days, starting today.  Please let me know if you are in (if you haven’t done that already). Just for fun, I will raffle off a one-of-a-kind

It is time for a simple 7-Day challenge. It starts on Monday. It is simple: Write one to two sentences, or even one to two bullets each day for seven days. We could call it a mini-nugget. Or perhaps it is a micro-nugget. Either way is great! There are a lot of “rules” (not really): 

Recently, I told you about “Planet Brillonia.” Here is how the next bit of that story. What’s happened in the story so far: In the year 2500 A.D. a new human civilization was formed on a planet named “Brillonia.” Advanced spaceships brought humans to this earth-like planet which supports the life of humans, animals, and

Over the past 125 days, my daily writing has brought me back to my writing days in high school. I was a prolific writer, producing articles about all kinds of topics. I also wrote some short stories like “How Planet “Brillonia” Got Started”. I got to thinking that some of the things I’d like to