But here’s the problem many of us face: How do you keep from over-booking that creative time with too much ambition (the counter-mood to a retreat!) on one hand and a loose free-for-all in which little actually gets done on the other?
How do you talk to your best self to keep it on track without making it think it’s a factory worker just “getting things done”?
Hi, All, I brim with enthusiasm. Two years ago, I trained the first set of Yoga as Muse Facilitators to bring the creativity-yoga goodness to their respective tribes throughout North America. Then, they set off on a publishing adventure. And…
In a world of survival of the fittest, how did the peacock feather endure? Do animals “get” music? How can music save forests from pine beetle invasions? How can mixing up our senses help us feel what other animals feel?…
Creativity can be bad for you. In the preface to the revised edition of The Journey from the Center to the Page, I point out that booze as muse has been a long-time tradition among some of my 20th-century literary…
Last week, I wrote about conquering the bugs of distraction. But here’s one of the wondrous paradoxes and mysteries of the creative mind: The creative mind flourishes with focus, and it flourishes with wandering. I’ve been tracking and testing out…
Most of us creatives struggle with at least three kinds of distracting insects – life’s fleas, society’s gnats, and the mind’s mosquitoes.
My pal Michael Bungay Stanier of Box of Crayons posted this thoughtful piece on Fierce Love about coaching. He writes, This is what rings most true for me at the moment, a mantra of service. Fierce reminds me not to…
I recently posed the question, “What makes for a great facilitator?” I offered my reflection on 3 qualities of great teachers, namely versatility, confidence, and authenticity – and especially a “no guru” status. And then you sent me yours. Here’s a…
“Get back! Get back to where you once belonged.” That’s what Lennon and McCartney told this long-blond-haired boy all those years ago (on my older sister’s old 45s, by the way, just to get the chronology straight!). But now that…
When you invest your heart and ingenuity into developing your brand – even if you come into developing your brand sort of through the creative back door as I have – you feel you have a lot at stake when you hire someone or train someone to carry out that brand. How do you let that brand grow with a little love, trust, and wonder instead of so much fear?
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