This is the third in a series of stories about the power of creative inspiration. You can read story one about David and Elisabeth here. and the second, about Grady and Miss Hampton here. When you’re in demand from everyone around you, setting aside specific time just for you to [...] Read more »
Creativity At The Beautiful Frayed Imperfect Edges
There are an infinite number of ways you can be creative and inspiration is all around you wherever you go. So why does it sometimes feel like you have no decent ideas, no starting point, and absolutely nothing to work with for a new project? It’s because you’re not looking [...] Read more »
Why Everything You Create Doesn’t Have To Be Stunningly Original, Shiny And New
For anyone who creates, there’s a pressure – usually that originates from within ourselves – to make sure that every new project is incredibly original and new. We feel that unless what we create is different and better than everything we’ve ever created before (or, even, better than anything anyone [...] Read more »
Procrastination: Surface Seduction And Getting Lost In The Glow
Procrastination has many devious ways of tricking us into doing its will. Which is, er, not doing anything very useful at all. One that we can easily overlook is getting lost in the glow after being involved in a lot of activity. Because we’ve just been so busy, we relax [...] Read more »
How To Not Worry About What Others Think Of You And Do What Matters
Imagine you were confident in yourself enough to do whatever you wanted. To have that inner belief to follow your instinct and passions, and do what you know you need to do, without worrying about what other might think of you. It’s a very liberating thought. Personally this is something [...] Read more »
The Cleverness Of Being Unclever
Who do you think of as very clever? What sort of people come to mind when you hear that word? It often surprises me when I show someone, how to do something on a computer for example, that’s very simple to me (like highlighting some text, copying and pasting) and [...] Read more »
5 Ways To Be Creative When You Think You Can’t Be Creative
We’ve all experienced times when we feel we’re all washed up and dried out of new ideas and pushed face first against an impenetrable wall, whether this lasts for a few moments, or a few weeks, or even longer. There are many practices we can put in place to ensure [...] Read more »