Innovation and Creativity Institute
Entrepreneurial coaching and programs designed to transform you from being invisible to your market to in-demand through inspired creativity.
To be true to yourself requires solitude and courage first. “I am not who I think I am; I am not who you think I am;I am who I think you think I am.”~ Charles Cooley I looked at him across the patio table and marveled at how grown up he was. How tall he…
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If you want to know how to simplify your life and business, accept that you can make hard things easy. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” ~ Confucius “It’s all swirling around in my head,” said my client. “What’s that? How so?” I asked. “Um, well, everything I want to…
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Your pure imagination is the great escape. “You’ll definitely have to commit suicide to be free,” I told him.“In fact, ideally, you’ll do it all the time. Not physically. Mentally.”“You want me to kill my mind?”“Not all of it. Just the dungeon.”~ Excerpt from Martha Beck’sSteering By Starlight: The Science and Magic of Finding Your…
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A pause can be the perfect moment to do a gap analysis of your journey. “What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist.It’s not what you see that is art; art is the gap.” ~ Marcel Duchamp I stood on the platform at the Hendon tube station, reading the…
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A grief journey will take you to dark places you never imagined. Creativity will light your path home. “But when he went, it was like the other half of me disappeared. And we have this physical experience in loss of falling toward something. It’s like falling in love except it’s falling into grief. You’re falling…
Your creativity plays a part in shaping customer perception, but it’s not the whole story. “The customer’s perception is your reality.” ~ Kate Zabriskie When I began writing my book, a savvy and experienced writer gave me this advice: select one person to write to and keep her or him in the forefront of your…
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