Have you thought about the power of our focus recently? “Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everythingyou see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miraclesaround you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitudewill help you to focus your life in awe.” ~ Wayne Dyer I…
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Finding Your One Thing
What’s your one thing? The thing that would make all the difference for you? I had an idea for an article and wanted to get an early start the next day with a clear head. I told myself that I would eat a healthy, light dinner, drink lots of water, abstain from wine, and get…
Remembering Our Future
By remembering our future, the goals we have, we can better stay the course when things get hard. “You can’t believe in yourselfwithout believing in possibility,and you can’t believe in possibilitywithout believing in yourself.”~ Dr. Joe Dispenza I walked across the wood floor in the well-lit studio and stood in front of the photographer and videographer….
Creative Promiscuity
Could creative promiscuity be the key to combating stuckness? “It’s critical for me to have at least two projects going on at once so I can flip between them when I get bored or need a break. Inevitably, the one that I’m not supposed to be working on will be more appealing to me. For…
How to Get on a Creative Hot Streak
Sometimes it can feel impossible to get on a creative hot streak. If only there was a way to trick ourselves into one! “…these results suggest that neither exploration nor exploitation alone is associatedwith the hot streak dynamics; rather, it is the shift from exploration to exploitation thatclosely traces the onset of a hot streak….[E]xploration…increases…
What to Do When We Are Stuck
When we are stuck, it’s easy to become consumed with getting unstuck. But maybe that’s not the right way to go about getting unstuck. “If we stay where we are, where we’re stuck, where we’re comfortable and safe, we die there….When nothing new can get in, that’s death. When oxygen can’t find a way in,you…
