Creative blocks are often rooted in shame. “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” ~ Albert Einstein I was 6 years old and was happily lostโbuoyantโin creative flow. It was a rainy, summer day, and I sat at a long table…
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Creative Anxiety: The Art (& Hell) of Change
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” ~ Rumi I sat on the sofa, with my MacBook Air propped on my lap and a collapsed tower of notebooks, scraps of paper, research articles, and sticky notes to my right. I kept jumping…
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Get Out of Your Head: The Power of the Unscripted Self
Your stories may help you get our of your head. “If you want to change the world, tell a better story.” ~ Gail Larsen, author of Transformational Speaking I stood in front of my fellow Transformational Speaking Immersion students in a suite in Santa Fe’s Las Palomas hotel and began to tell my story. When…
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How to be More Creative as an Entrepreneur
If you want to know how to be more creative, you have to learn how to surrender to your creativity. “One of the things youโll hear people say, when they tell me they wish they could draw, is, โI see it in my head, but I canโt get it onto the page.โ And then I…
Quantum Entanglement and Creativity
“Even when the two entangled particlesโor peopleโare separated by a great distance (and I mean emotional or physical distance…or like being at opposite ends of the universe), their movements or actions affect each other.” ~ Sally Ember on quantum entanglement I am writing to you from the edge of the Caribbean Sea and Yucatan jungle…
Creativity Takes Courage
Creativity takes courage and it needs oxygen. “Freedom comes when you learn to let go, creation comes when you learn to say no.” ~ Madonna Ciccone I was halfway across the moonlit pool on a predawn morning in July of 2015 when the knowing landed fully intact, with a nuclear aftershock: In order for me…