inspiration Archives - Bill LaBrie

The Zen Salesman

by Bill LaBrie | Apr 20, 2015 | Essays

I get a lot of inspirational messages in my social media life. Most are from people fixated on success. Success in what? Oh, stuff. I guess. Just success. There’s this thing called “success” that everyone seems to want. We want to be...

You Study Medicine with your Butt

by Bill LaBrie | Mar 13, 2015 | Essays

They have a saying in Bolivian medical schools. It’s meant to encourage/discourage those who study medicine: Estúdiase medicina con tu poto. What they mean is this: If you’re going to study medicine, get used to sitting. In medical schools anywhere in the...

Inspiration: “Sid, You’re Perfect Just as You Are”

by Bill LaBrie | Dec 18, 2014 | Writing

I like having fun. Things I think are fun are many and varied. To me, almost anything can be fun. This — more than anything else — is the key to my own particular brand of success, such as it is. When I decided to write my novel I set my computer up...

Charles Bukowski’s Plan to Destroy Your Life

by Bill LaBrie | Sep 30, 2014 | Writing-Publishing

Well, Uncle Charles Bukowski — I’ve done my best. Nothing else I do seems to work out, either. Might as well write about it. so you want to be a writer? if it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it. unless it comes unasked out...

Creative Inaction: What To Do When You’re Lost in the Desert

by Bill LaBrie | Jun 24, 2014 | Careers, Cars, Education, Essays, Faith, Parenting

I think of the many articles I half-remember after half-reading once many years ago, there is one that stands out in my mind right now. It was in an Atlantic article about the lure of the Sahara. Europeans loved the Sahara back then. They likely still do. There was...