What is the opposite of creativity? You are innately designed to use your personal power. When you don’t, you experience a sense of helplessness, paralysis, and depressionโwhich is your clue that something is not working as it could. You, like all of us, deserve everything that is wonderful and exciting in life. And those feelings…
The Creativity Formula
Have you found the creativity formula? Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talentto the dark place where it leads.” ~ Erica Jong During the years I was asleep at the helm of my life, I felt as if I were being dragged behind an out-of-control speedboat from sunrise to…
The Crazy Maker in the Mirror
Did she run away? Did she run away? I don’t knowIf she ran away, If she ran away, come back home Just come home”~ Excerpt from “Where’s My Love?” by SYML I sat down at the dining room table in my business coach’s stately home and took a deep breath. I had journals, note pads,…
Claim Your Creative Process
I think there are two types of writers, the architects, and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a houseโฆ. They have the whole thing designed and blueprinted out before they even nail the first board up. The gardeners dig a hole, drop in a seed and water it….
Exchanging Duty for Playfulness
En mai, fais ce qu’il te plait.” ~ French expression (“In May, do what makes you happy.”) I spent the majority of my childhood engaged in imaginative play. My sister, our friends, and I created elaborate scenarios for whatever we decided to play. We might spend several days building a tree fort out of scraps…
The Wild Spring of Your Creativity
Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.” ~ John Muir I was born in the spring just as the dogwood trees began blooming in the mountains. Lacing the green hillsides with lobed, white flowers, stretched out from terraced limbs, the arrival of flowering dogwoods prompts a renewal of a childlike knowing that I am…