What makes you feel like you can’t go all in? What holds you back? “What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” ~ Vincent Van Gogh After nearly fifteen months on the mountaintop, cut off from traveling and experiencing the world of art, I broke free yesterday and drove to Atlanta to the Van…
courage for your creativity
Make A Wish
It can feel vulnerable, scary even, to make a wish. “We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.” ~ Louisa May Alcott This past Wednesday, May 12, at 2:18 pm, I…
The Key to Transformation
The key to transformation might be surprising, and might require us to look within. “We make self-doubt mean something negative about our talent, our ideas,our creativity. What we’re capable of. Not true. In order for us to achieve our goals,we have to peel off all the stuff that is not us first. The discord of the…
Say Who You Are
“Say who you are, really say it in your life and in your work.” ~ Charlie Kaufman What is the single biggest obstacle in the way of your success and/or personal happiness? I asked my audience and the prevailing themes were vulnerability, having the courage to be our true selves, and prying off the sticky expectations of…
How to Get What We Crave
How to get what we crave involves paring down, getting clear, and letting ourselves see what is true for us. “This was the practice: I was starting to get rid of my possessions, at least the useless ones, because possessions stood between me and death. They didn’t protect me from death, but they created a…
How We Do Our Best Work
We do our best work when we let ourselves stay in the zone of not knowing and let our intuition guide us. “The road seen, then not seen, the hillside hidingthen revealing the way you should take, the roaddropping away from you as if leaving you to walkon thin air, then catching you, holding you…
