How is this Day Part of a Creative Quest?
Days spellbound me. Most of them, at least. Like a boy with an unshaped summer day ahead, I still take it upon myself to “shape” a day, to give non-rigid intention and meaning to its flow. But to make a…
When Marketing Kills Creativity
But in the wrong doses and with the wrong timing, marketing can kill creativity, thwart innovation, and stall personal and professional growth.
To treat website development as catalyst for creativity is legit, but doing so requires authentic strategy, and it demands putting marketing in its proper place.
Why Morning Routines Fail & What to Do
You yearn to rise each morning brimming with purpose of your own making. For 45 minutes or three hours, you desire to hold yourself captive in that creative space defined only by you. But what happens?
The Secret Stance to Create What Matters
1. To Stand & Stare What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare? – W. H. Davies (from Good Poems, Selected by Garrison Keillor) That’s one question I’m living in these days. …
Tracking Wonder Updates (May ’12) – Rest for Optimal Creativity
REST MATTERS. Creative work consumes a lot of energy. Blood sugar burns as you take problem-solving risks and inhibit distracting impulses.
12 Ways to Shape the Day for Delight & Wonder
Note: Jen Louden, Susannah Conway, and Marianne Elliott requested I and others riff on what brings us each creative joy. This guide is my reply. It started as a personal riff to my self about what’s important and how Thoreau’s…
Financial Planning for Creatives
How do you as a creative know that you need financial advisement? And if so, how do you find and receive financial advice that helps you develop competence and use creativity to build healthy strategies and investment savvy?
Beyond Creativity Hubbub: Inspiration from Poetry Chapbook Publishers
Poetic language startles us out of our workaday stupor. Like a strange magnet, it attracts heart particles into new combinations. And small poetry publishers? Well, they’re strange magnets themselves. After all, three days to celebrate what is arguably the most populist literary form that is, I think, the early prototype of blogging, self-publishing, and all forms of alternative publishing. That’s remarkable by itself. TED Talks this is not.
Fling the Beast: Yoga and Creativity Training
To sit in the mystery of your best self’s offering is delicious and unnerving. You see the vision of who you are becoming and of what you can give. But when the mouth of possibility awes open, you also feel, well, terror creep its little hairy fingers right up the back of your neck.
One way to fling that hairy beast off your back altogether is to lift off. Take gut action toward what you know rings right for your best self. Trust. Let uncertainty exhilarate you toward the great blue yonder of your heart’s desire.
A Training To Train Your Best Self to Show Up for Your Muse & Your Tribes
I want to tell you about a training. It’s a training to train your best self to do your greatest creative work in the world. And it’s a training that opens the way for you to do likewise for your…
