When you set off on your adventures each day, which is the first port you call at? What’s the first thing you give your time, energy and attention to? Is it your creative work? If it’s not, and creating is only the third or thirty third visit of your day, [...] Read more »
Seeking Space And Stillness
In our busy lives, when we talk about seeking space and stillness as if they are elusive entities somewhere out there we might be lucky enough to stumble upon occasionally, we relinquish our power to choose. The truth is, we have the opportunity to choose to create space and stillness [...] 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 »
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 »
More Or Less
Often, we find ourselves seeking that vital last ingredient that will suddenly, magically set our creativity free. But what if we didn’t actually need more of anything? What if the secret was to have, and do, less? What if we stopped trying to do so much, and allowed enough space [...] 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 »
Making The Attempt
The attempt is everything. Without attempting to do anything, to create anything, we do nothing, create nothing. What happens after we begin is almost secondary to the necessity of beginning itself. When we gather up our forces, our hopes, our gifts, our passions, our focus, and our heart, show up [...] Read more »