Recently, we talked about how powerful a daily stack of habits can be. My own morning stack – yoga, daily gratitudes, meditation and writing – is at the very core of my creative life. Those first two hours of the day are often the most effective and enjoyable of the [...] Read more »
How To Guide Your Creative Life With A Simple “More Or Less” List
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 »
Choosing Words To Guide Your Life With Meaning
At the beginning of last year, I decided to choose three words that I wanted to define and guide my life for the coming 12 months. After a turbulent previous couple of years, I knew it going to continue to be a time of significant change. Settling on a single [...] 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 »