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On August 17 & 18, we are hosting the second annual Escape Adulthood Summit in picturesque Madison, Wisconsin. It will be a wild rumpus of epic proportions.

Part conference, part retreat, part mastermind group, it’s a one-of-a-kind event designed for people instilled with the soaring spirit of childhood.

It’s your chance to connect with kindred spirits for a madcap weekend filled with fun and inspiration. We’ll talk about how to stay happy and hopeful in an Adultitis-ridden world that’s increasingly more noisy, cynical, and stressful. We’ll share simple, fun, and practical ideas for creating memorable scenes with the people we love. We’ll brainstorm creative ways to break rules that don’t exist. We’ll explore the elusive concept of life balance and discover ways to make life less stressful and more fun. Oh yeah, and we will eat cheese curds and build something that may or may not involve macaroni. Believe it.

We have over 30 years of combined experience in planning, leading, and facilitating similar events, but last year was our first of this kind and we really weren’t sure what to expect. To our surprise and delight, we sold out in five days. We’ve decided to limit the attendance on this transformative experience in order to keep things intimate. This year, there will only be 40 Golden Tickets available.

Here are some promises we have for you:

• We promise that the weekend will be filled with magic, surprises, and laughter.
• We promise that you will meet new people, learn new things, and be armed with ideas to begin writing exciting new chapters to your life story.
• We promise that you will be inspired, challenged, rejuvenated, and affirmed that no, you’re not weird. You’re awesome.

Let’s face it, we live in a world dominated by Adultitis, and it can feel terribly lonely when you feel like you’re the only one who sees the value in silliness, the importance of laughter, and the power of a chocolate chip cookie. But know this: You are not alone.

The Escape Adulthood Summit is for you if:

• You want to slow down.
• You want to laugh like you did when you were seven.
• You want to spend more time around positive people.
• You want to be a better (and more fun) spouse, parent, grandparent or friend.
• You’ve been through a lot lately and want to lighten up.
• You want to escape “normal.”
• You want to feel more alive.

Give yourself permission to join us for the Escape Adulthood Summit.

Make your life more amazing. Make your escape.

Questions? Learn more here.

Pretend that you are five. And it’s dinner time.

Now, if I were to ask you, “Would you like to have dessert first tonight?”, what would your reaction be?

Kind of a no-brainer, right? You’d probably wonder if it was some sort of trick question because the answer would be so freaking obvious:

YES!

Kids are always looking to score a cookie before dinner or move on to cake before the carrots are consumed. But somewhere along the line, Mom, Dad, Grandma or Grandpa says, “No, you can’t have dessert first. It’ll spoil your dinner.”

Drat.

Disgruntled, you make a little promise to yourself that when you get big, you’ll eat dessert whenever and wherever you want. When you get big, you’ll live by your own rules.

And yet.

The majority of people probably can’t remember the last time they had dessert first.

Can you?

Life is short. Eat dessert first...at least once in a while.

This colorful artwork by Jason Kotecki comes in two sizes. The 8 x 10 print is digitally reproduced on 80# Ultra White Sundance Felt Text paper. It features a slim white border for easy framing and comes packaged in a protective plastic envelope. The 16 x 20 version is a Giclée print on Hahnemuhle Torchon, an acid free cotton rag watercolor paper. It comes in a sturdy cardboard tube. Neither the frame nor the brick wall is included with either size.

"Impossible" is a word people like to toss around willy nilly. Especially cynics and critics.

While there are certainly things that are, in fact, impossible, there aren't nearly as many as we might think. Most of the time, something is only impossible because someone hasn't figured out a way to do it yet.

As this print reminds us, sometimes we just need to be a little creative.

This colorful artwork by Jason Kotecki comes in two sizes. The 8 x 10 print is digitally reproduced on 80# Ultra White Sundance Felt Text paper. It features a slim white border for easy framing and comes packaged in a protective plastic envelope. The 16 x 20 version is a Giclée print on Hahnemuhle Torchon, an acid free cotton rag watercolor paper. It comes in a sturdy cardboard tube. Neither the frame nor the brick wall is included with either size.

No doubt you played with some of these little friends when you were a kid. Maybe you even owned a few of them. And you certainly had a favorite! It's scientifically impossible to have Adultitis while playing with them. The good news is that you can bring that magic back to the here and now with this colorful and upbeat print.

Kind of like a visual love letter to childhood, this art will allow you to recapture some of that joy from days gone by.

This colorful artwork by Jason Kotecki comes in two sizes. The 8 x 10 print is digitally reproduced on 80# Ultra White Sundance Felt Text paper. It features a slim white border for easy framing and comes packaged in a protective plastic envelope. The 16 x 20 version is a Giclée print on Hahnemuhle Torchon, an acid free cotton rag watercolor paper. It comes in a sturdy cardboard tube. Neither the frame nor the brick wall is included with either size.

The dreams we disregard and deem unrealistic today may turn out to be things our great grandkids take for granted.

The problems we face as a global community are large. But the hope for a better future lies in big dreams, not realistic ones. Your story is destined to be great. But the people who collect amazing adventures are the ones with big dreams, not realistic ones.

Now is NOT the time to downgrade your dreams. Now is NOT the time to be realistic.

Now is the time to dream BIGGER.

This colorful artwork by Jason Kotecki comes in two sizes. The 8 x 10 print is digitally reproduced on 80# Ultra White Sundance Felt Text paper. It features a slim white border for easy framing and comes packaged in a protective plastic envelope. The 16 x 20 version is a Giclée print on Hahnemuhle Torchon, an acid free cotton rag watercolor paper. It comes in a sturdy cardboard tube. Neither the frame nor the brick wall is included with either size.

Confidence is not feeling like you’re better than everyone else. That’s cockiness. I believe that real confidence is the deep-seated belief that no one is better than you.

In the pantheon of crayon colors, brown rarely gets much love. It seems as though red and blue have the best publicists, for they are the colors most widely named as people’s favorites. But brown is a very useful hue, coming in quite handy when drawing trees, hair, skin, and many different kinds of animals. (And let’s not forget things made of chocolate!) Although we may have our favorites, no one color is better or more useful than any of the others. Each one is uniquely different and equally great.

Although we as people come from different backgrounds, have different viewpoints, and possess different strengths and talents, we each have a distinct brand of magic we are called to unleash on the world.

We need your magic.

Because if you remove one crayon from the box, our world becomes a little less beautiful.

This colorful artwork by Jason Kotecki comes in two sizes. The 8 x 10 print is digitally reproduced on 80# Ultra White Sundance Felt Text paper. It features a slim white border for easy framing and comes packaged in a protective plastic envelope. The 16 x 20 version is a Giclée print on Hahnemuhle Torchon, an acid free cotton rag watercolor paper. It comes in a sturdy cardboard tube. Neither the frame nor the brick wall is included with either size.

For years, the world-famous Adultitis First Aid Kit has been used to treat countless cases of the dreaded disease, from low-level Stage 1 to Full-Blown Adultitis. And now, after years of research, our crack team of scientists, doctors, and circus clowns have developed and approved this unique and customizable version. You can pick the elements that best fit your individual circumstance, with the peace of mind that you can't choose wrong. Everything comes lovingly packaged in the world-famous red box, emblazoned with the original Adultitis First Aid Kit logo. Extensive tests have proven that every possible configuration is guaranteed to have an immediate and long-lasting effect on Adultitis levels of all degrees. Plus, each Kit can be trusted to treat individuals, families, and teams of varying size. The best news is that the only side effect is fun!

Here's an overview of the medicine and vitamins you can choose from:

Medicine These powerful elements are the cornerstone of any effective, long-lasting Adultitis treatment plan. We recommend choosing at least two for best results.
	Cheap Family Fun A 2-DVD set featuring 52 short, entertaining videos of Kim & Jason sharing some easy and inexpensive ideas for having big fun. Includes Pajama Run, Hide Pokey, Sticky Cup, and Silly Soap Opera!
	Escape Plan Jammed with 40 challenges and hundreds of ideas, this fun, activity-oriented book is designed to get you thinking and acting in more childlike ways while annihilating Adultitis.
	Escape Adulthood This entertaining and insightful book reveals the 8 secrets from childhood, and more importantly, how we can bring them back into our lives today to make life less stressful and more fun.
	Just You Wait A collection of raw, insightful, and humorous journal entries detailing the adventures in fighting Adultitis as first-time parents.
	Once Upon a Time DVD Your funny bone will be tickled and your heart touched by Jason's powerful 70-minute program about putting first things first in order to live a remarkable story.
	There's An Adult In My Soup A warm and witty look at life featuring short, bite-sized anecdotes from both Kim and Jason. It will lift your spirit and keep the adult out of your soup.
Vitamins These little extras pack a mighty punch and help keep Adultitis at bay. Two or three is a good dosage, but feel free to add as many as you'd like!
	Berry Happy Birthday Greeting Card Set This nostalgic, colorful set of 16 Kim & Jason birthday cards comes with its own bag of gourmet Jelly Belly jelly beans.
	Mixed Fruit Greeting Card Set This nostalgic, colorful set of 16 assorted Kim & Jason greeting cards comes with its own bag of gourmet Jelly Belly jelly beans.
	ABC Cookie Cutters These hilariously adorable gingerbread men come with bite marks built right in! The "ABC" stands for Already Been Chewed!
	Bean Boozled Jelly Beans A box of tasty beans (like peach and popcorn) mixed in with awful beans (like moldy cheese and vomit), yet they all look identical. The only way to find out what flavor you picked is to eat them!
	Bean Boozled Gift Box with Spinner Same jelly beans as above, but packaged in a neat gift box that contains its own flavor spinner for even more fun!
	Chat Pack A compact case of 156 fun questions to spark conversations. Great for car trips, family gatherings, and meetings!
	Chocolate Calculator It's a calculator that looks like a chocolate bar. It even comes wrapped in a foil wrapper!
	Crayola Crayons A proven Adultitis-repellant, it's awfully hard to maintain a stressed-out demeanor with a crayon in your hand. The go-to tool for drawings, doodles, and to-do lists!
	Food Coloring A must-have staple for making your day more colorful. Great for green eggs and ham as well as ugly cookies!
	Googly Eyes Stickers Add character to the inanimate objects in your life. Perfect for serving as a regular reminder to not take yourself so seriously.
	Play-Doh The smell alone brings back childhood memories. Still the gold standard for wanna be scupltors, and it keeps you busy during boring meetings!
	Pokey The ideal object to use when playing "Hide Pokey," a game Kim & Jason have been playing for years and often share with their audiences.
	Silly Putty In 1968, Silly Putty was taken into lunar orbit by the Apollo 8 astronauts. It also makes a nice addition to any Adultitis First Aid Kit.
	Slinky Filled with boundless personality, the classic Slinky can always be counted on to help you keep a bounce in your step.

This work was created in the midst of -- and in response to -- the global economic crisis. I don't know about you, but to me it's been downright exhausting to hear the constant stream of negativity on the news and in daily conversation. No doubt, we are living in trying times, but no matter who dire the circumstance, there are always hidden opportunities waiting to be found. Some of the largest and most important companies and technological advances were born in the most challenging periods of history.

Some may discount the power of positive thinking, but the truth is this: You can't spot a good opportunity when you're looking at life with a bad attitude.

I used the weather section of a national newspaper as the foundation of this piece to serve as a reminder that it's up to us whether our future forecast is sunny or gloomy.

10x14 Original Painting

Acrylic and Sharpie on newsprint mounted on watercolor paper.

This is an original, one-of-a-kind work of art, signed by the artist. It is unframed.

The artwork will be carefully packaged in a clear plastic envelope and shipped flat in a sturdy cardboard mailer.