Innovation and Creativity Institute
Where Joy + Creativity Meet Business Growth.
"Scratching is real and tangible. It bloodies your fingernails. The key is not to block yourself; you have to leave yourself open to everything." ~ Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It For Life I printed out the pages of my book manuscript recently—something I had not done since I began writing. I watched, amazed, as the pages ...
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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, sketches of ideas, and a summary of the book I was desperate to write ...
I suddenly realized that one of the core competencies of being human was that we were the only corner of creation that could refuse to be ourselves. The Kingfisher doesn’t get to choose to be a crow. And the mountain is just a mountain, and the cloud is just a cloud. The tree is just a tree. That’s why the natural world seems to be so nourishing to ...
About ten days of mail arrived yesterday via UPS, sent by my brother-in-law who is kindly checking my mail this month. I opened the large envelope this morning and began going through the contents one by one. In about five minutes, I had opened and reviewed everything. I wadded up the junk and empty envelopes and threw them away. I put the ...
