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 and Dillard’s sentiments have driven me for 20-plus years. Hence, the images are personal. And…
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?
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.
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.
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 clients, your students, your teams, your tribes. You and I know the challenges of living…
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 the result of their impressive creative momentum and creative collaboration is here – both in…
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 heroes. NYT science editor William Broad’s new book The Science of Yoga – which has…
Most of us creatives struggle with at least three kinds of distracting insects – life’s fleas, society’s gnats, and the mind’s mosquitoes.
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 round up of keen insights from some of you – each of you amazing teachers,…
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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