Traditionally, cheerleaders travel far and wide in their short pleated skirts and winning smiles, following their team’s every game with their encouraging chanting, energetic high kicking, and flamboyant yet perfectly synchronised pom pom waving. If your cheerleaders are working their magic at the edge of the court, their bouncing optimism [...] Read more »
How To Prove You Actually Exist As An Artist
Do you ever find there are times when you wonder whether your creativity has dried up like a riverbed in the longest hottest summer ever known, never to be revived, and you’ll never again taste even a single drop of that creative flow you so long for? Sometimes too, do [...] Read more »
Why You’ll Never Create Anything Worthwhile Unless You Become Completely Obsessed
What do you think of when you heard the word obsession? When we talk of someone being obsessed, what comes to mind? Most of the time, obsessiveness has negative connotations, and we associate it with someone who is not balanced, or not “normal”, and look down upon it as an [...] Read more »
How To Get Focused: Accept, Trust, Let Go
Would you use a single tea bag to try to flavour the entire Atlantic Ocean? Of course not, the tea would become so diluted it would be virtually non-existent. You wouldn’t see it, you wouldn’t taste it. And yet this is exactly what happens with our ability to create and [...] Read more »
The Top 3 Reasons Why You’re A Secret Superhero (And Don’t Even Know It)
While there are some of us who need no encouragement to tell the world how great we are, most of us tend to fall on the other side of the scale. Instead of acknowledging all the talents and skills we have, and all the amazing stuff we do, we go [...] Read more »
Are Your Surroundings Slowly Suffocating Your Soul?
Have you heard the expression – We become a product of our environment? How relevant is it when it comes to leading a creative life? However single minded, determined and strong we feel we are, we’re all susceptible to the influences of other people. Obviously, the people who are closest [...] Read more »
How To Find Where Hope Is Hiding
How hopeful are you? Our general attitudes from day to day are influenced by our deeper beliefs about the world, and what we focus on over months and years. We develop our own level of positivity (or negativity) based on our past experiences, as well as our future aspirations. What [...] Read more »