What’s your experience with the concept of goals? I believe goal setting can have a great value in our lives, and help us map out the landmarks along the way that we want to achieve and pass through. They can highly motivate us into action and towards a specific destination. [...] Read more »
Set Light To Your Calendars – Today Is The Most Important Day Of Your Creative Life
With the coming of a new year, many of us make hope filled resolutions and declare boldly that this is the year when we finally achieve all those things we’ve wanted to do for the past two, three, five, 10 or more years. Then, a week or two in, or [...] Read more »
Creativity And The Heart Of Your Universe
Imagine if you kept your heart up on a shelf. Imagine you’d forced your bare fingers right into your chest, ripped out it, and placed it high out of reach. There it sat, dripping, bloodied and barely fluttering. In this scenario, that old heart of yours isn’t going to be [...] Read more »
Just Three
Most of us have too much. Which drowns out, confuses, and distorts what’s actually most important to us. So what if, instead, you had just three in your life? Just three pairs of shoes? Three T-shirts? Three books? Just three colours of paint? Three notes on a piano? Three pages [...] Read more »
Why There’s No Hiding From The Work You Need To Create
Although we don’t necessarily have a detailed plan of the next dozen creative projects we’ll embark on (let alone how they’ll turn out), we can develop a pretty reliable compass to guide us in how important any one project is. Or, to put it another way, when we let ourselves [...] 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 Layer by layer, we shed the broken world views, outdated old tapes and corrosive thinking that has held us [...]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 »