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Your Big, Bold Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie: Tracking Wonder Conversation
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Your Big, Bold Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie: Tracking Wonder Conversation

We often hear about the importance of play when it comes to creating new things and ideas. John Cleese says, “If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.” But what about creating a new life? A whole new way of viewing yourself and of acting in the world? Where does play come…

Artists Make What Businesses Want
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Artists Make What Businesses Want

1. Artists Do Not Make Art Here’s a paradox I witness every week: On one hand, artists and authors feel that business is alien to them, and on the other hand, business people feel that making meaningful art is alien to them. I meet, talk, and work with such creative people and business people every…

The Myth of Self-Esteem & Creating Work That Matters
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The Myth of Self-Esteem & Creating Work That Matters

I want to talk about self-esteem and creating. About creating the work not only that we want to create but creating the work that your patch of the planet needs. I want to hear from you because I never have the complete picture, and hearing from you expands my – our – perspective. Here’s what…

The Courage to Create – a Joy Deeper Than Happiness
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The Courage to Create – a Joy Deeper Than Happiness

The Courage to Create When Rollo May was a boy, his mother often left him alone with his schizophrenic sister.  He learned early to empathize with those who view reality differently, and he learned early how to fend for himself. He went on to pursue studies in English, psychotherapy, and even ministry. In the post-World…

Be Brave: A Poem-Film for Anyone Asking for Courage to Create
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Be Brave: A Poem-Film for Anyone Asking for Courage to Create

http://youtu.be/Ozc4nBvprFY For anyone yearning to be heard. For anyone whose voice feels caged in a cubicle or sliced on a chopping board. For anyone whose Muse still battles Time and Mind and Circumstance. For anyone ready to shape a glorious creative mess or message into a Story. For anyone supplicating for courage to make choices…

To Be Brave, Create in the Paradox
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To Be Brave, Create in the Paradox

Where Your Wilds Things Are   You know the feeling. Something almost wild resides inside you. A bold idea. A bold story. A bold way of doing or viewing something. Let’s call it a Wild Idea. Let’s say a Wild Idea is, to you, a radically new way of viewing something or it’s a possible…

How Can Anxiety Catalyze More than Paralyze Creative Courage?
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How Can Anxiety Catalyze More than Paralyze Creative Courage?

I was an anxious boy, quiet, often distracted to daydream and doodle. The lovely Ms. Goodman scolded me at six years old for connecting the dots. My pencil was linking the bubbles in my science textbook illustration while my eyes watched the birds outside my classroom window. The entertaining Ms. Leach reprimanded me at twelve…

For Mothers Who Educate Imaginations
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For Mothers Who Educate Imaginations

Note: I’m taking a decidedly personal detour today in honor of mothers nurturing imaginations everywhere. My mother made the most of her means and time to give my imagination and spirit an education beyond school. A smile and an easy laugh forever cast to the world, she would never let on to her tow-headed boy…