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…
Tracking Wonder with Tara Mohr: Your Other Names as a Creative
Tracking Wonder Conversations (TWC) talks about creative momentum in work and life As someone who thrives on creating day-in, day-out, you know that creative momentum requires more than “getting things done.” Along the way, you must make space for wonder…
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…
Don’t Go It Alone ~ Gather Your 3 Creative Packs This Year
Most creatives I know and work with have some variation of this conundrum: how to get optimal doses of solitude and of social interaction. Today’s writing invitation – the final one of the Be Possible Writing Project – takes us into this conundrum.
How Yoga Screwed Up My Creative Life
Note: My mode for this blog is about your optimal creative workflow – not my humdrum life (You can glimpse doses of my mostly undramatic life in my personal essays). But many queries lately about yoga and Yoga As Muse…
Every Day is a Poem: The Three Highlights Game
How are you experiencing your days this year? The most innovative, creative people I know and interview regard each day a certain way. An opportunity. A window. A portal. They also have learned to watch how their minds sabotage or…
Gratitude, Creativity, & The 30 Days/300 Things Gratitude Challenge
Does receiving gratitude inspire you to more creative action? Is it easy for you to express it? Is it easy for you to receive it? Dare I ask, are there ‘advantages’ for creative practitioners and entrepreneurs to practicing gratitude? Those…
Welcome to the Hut.
“When we are lost in darkness and see a distant glimmer of light, who does not dream of a thatched cottage or, to go more deeply still into legend, of a hermit’s hut?” – Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space…
