When & How Do You Stop Business as Usual?
You’ve finessed time-shaping, optimized your physical space. You’re set, rolling, and flowing.
Then, boom. Life happens. How do you respond?
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Creative Mindfulness: Super Power for Productivity & Creativity
Since I was an anxious 16-year-old, I’ve been trying to partner with my mind. Back then, I noticed one of my first mental patterns: When my mind grew quiet and still, I’d ask myself, “Wait a minute. Did you forget to do something? Shouldn’t you be worrying about something?” Sad to say, that pattern still…
Mastering Your Creative Work Flow from the Inside-Out
A Webinar Series for Creatives, Creative Professionals, & Entrepreneurs I’m offering a mini-course in direct response to what some of you have told me you need. Many of you have more ideas than you’ll ever execute in this one wild lifetime. How do you capture and do something with the ideas that matter most? And…
No Place Like Home – The Power of a Creative Neighborhood
In our World Wide Web culture, it’s easy to disconnect from the captivating people right around us who thrive with great ideas.
Creating Time by Marney Makridakis Book Review
Do you not have enough time to execute all of the brilliant projects you’re dreaming up? Then, create time. That’s the artful response that artist and coach Marney Makridakis offers in her tip-laden, picture-rich book Creating Time: Using Creativity to Reinvent the Clock and Reclaim Your Life. Check out my time-sensitive video review (2.5 minutes!)…
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 day a quest, now that is an art I’m trying to finesse, and I’m refining…
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. It’s a stance to take these digit-dazed days, to stand and stare. This is a…
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 and Dillard’s sentiments have driven me for 20-plus years. Hence, the images are personal. And…
