Recently I wrote that any day we choose can be Day One of the greatest day/ week/ month/ year/ decade of our creative lives. I have to admit though I’ve been rather slow in getting going with a few projects since December departed. I have been creating plenty, and my [...] Read more »
Layer By Layer
Layer by layer, we add to our experience, our eloquence, and our dexterity as artists. We cannot cram ten thousand hours of creating into ten minutes. It takes time. We keep evolving. Layer by layer, we shed the broken world views, outdated old tapes and corrosive thinking that has held us [...] Read more »
Surf’s Up
My biggest procrastination habit is surfing mindlessly online. It’s good to read other people’s work for inspiration. But when you’re scanning and skimming aimlessly without absorbing the words, you’re not respecting the creator of that work, or valuing your own time. It’s time to notice, then change, the pattern of [...] Read more »
Letting Go Of The Need For Everyone Else To Understand Why You Create
How much of your time and energy do you spend trying to justify to other people the time you spend on your creative projects? Family, friends, colleagues. Pets. The postman. Those people you went to school with decades ago and have absolutely nothing in common with now, but still for [...] Read more »
Finding The River, Becoming The Flow
Just under five years ago, my father died, after a very long and difficult illness. For over fifteen years his body had been gradually giving up organ by organ, until the final surgery was one battle too many for him to survive. He told us, before going in that last [...] Read more »
Past Creative Glories And The Anchors Of Your Yesterself
A while back we talked about creating space in your life to allow new ideas, projects and experiences to enter. The analogy was, if your harbour is full of decaying and half sunken vessels, there’s no clear water for new ships to sail into, ships from exotic lands potentially full of [...] Read more »