From the Living Library
Play.Create.Succeed.
How to Engage Open Source Connection to Create Magic and Find Treasure Within YOU
Radical Thinking for a New Age
A book about reclaiming play, creative possibility, and a more intentional relationship with the life you are making.
There comes a point when being sensible, careful, and endlessly serious stops being particularly useful. Play.Create.Succeed. began with a different proposition: what might become possible when we loosen our grip, become curious again, and give ourselves room to play?
Part book, part workbook, and part invitation, these pages explore creativity, choice, possibility, and the self.
The journey through the book
Play.Create.Succeed.
The book moves through three connected territories, each inviting a little more awareness, experimentation, and participation.
Play
Begin with possibility.
PLAY returns to imagination, curiosity, discovery, and the freedom to encounter something without already deciding where it must lead.
Within the book, PLAY unfolds through Permission, Let Go, Allow, and Yield.
Create
Participate in what is taking shape.
Creativity here reaches beyond art. It becomes part of the ongoing act of shaping a life.
CREATE moves through intention, attitudes, thoughts, experience, and the patterns that can become automatic over time.
Succeed
Bring success back into ordinary life.
Rather than treating success as a distant prize, the book explores it as something lived through presence, learning, caring, choosing, and beginning again.
The final section moves through discovery, understanding, compassion, care, ego, empowerment, and destiny.
“On one side of accountability is courage, on the other is freedom.”
Looking back from here
A book from an earlier season of my work.
I wrote Play.Create.Succeed. more than a decade ago.
I would not write every sentence in quite the same language today. My work has continued to deepen, change, and gather new understanding, as I would hope it would.
And yet, when I return to these pages, I recognize something important.
The curiosity was already there. The interest in what sits beneath habitual thinking was there. So were play, creativity, human possibility, care, connection, and the sense that we are participants in our lives rather than passive observers of them. It is part of the lineage.
Perhaps this book will meet you here
When life has become a little too serious
If your creative self has become quiet, if you are standing at the edge of something that has not yet taken shape, or if you simply want some room to explore possibility again, this may be an interesting place to begin.
Read it slowly. Write in the margins. Leave what does not speak to you. Stay with what does.
Play was never merely something you did before adulthood arrived. It remains one of the places possibility begins.