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 »
A Park To Play In
Children don’t spend hours planning in fine detail which park they’d like to go to play in. If they did, they’d never have any time left for the important part – playing. Whichever park they’re taken to, they happily make use of whatever is there, and enjoy themselves. With our [...] Read more »
Finding The True Value Of Your Creativity
What’s the true value of your creativity? If someone else was in control of your creativity, and you had to pay a subscription fee every month to be able to have full access to all your creative potential, ideas and talents, how much would it be worth to you? Twenty [...] Read more »
Creative Habits, Stacks, The Substance And The Switch
Recently we spoke about the power of using habits and stacks of habits each day to build yourself a beautiful creative life. A vital factor in how effective these creative stacks are, is what we can call the substance and the switch, and the connection between them. So let’s look [...] Read more »