Innovation and Creativity Institute
Entrepreneurial coaching and programs designed to transform you from being invisible to your market to in-demand through inspired creativity.
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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Falling into comparison traps will blind you to your truth. If you begin to think the grass is greener on the other side, begin ignoring everybody. “Anything real begins with the fiction of what could be.Imagination is therefore the most potent force in the universe,and a skill you can get better at. It’s the one…
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If you’re feeling down, you won’t find the answers there. Look up and all around you. A Walk My eyes already touch the sunny hill.going far beyond the road I have begun,So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp;it has an inner light, even from a distance- and changes us, even if we do…
If you want to know how to develop your intuition and find more clarity in uncertain times, the trick is to get into a state of flow. Drawing is one way to do that. “Inside you there is an artist you don’t know about … Say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it…
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Sometimes it takes looking back to move forward. What has happened to it all?Crazy, some’d sayWhere is the life that I recognize?Gone away But I won’t cry for yesterdayThere’s an ordinary worldSomehow I have to findAnd as I try to make my wayTo the ordinary worldI will learn to survive” ~ Excerpt from “Ordinary World”…
The Stockdale Paradox teaches us how to take the next step forward—just the next one, starting from where you are right now. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose —with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they…
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