Creativity
Empowerment Tips from George Michael – Pop Star
Spending an entire day at an airport dealing with one flight delay after another was once a nightmare for me. I have since learned to look for the gift in every experience. My recent, and much anticipated, trip to Italy began with such an unexpected day. Instead of pouting thinking my entire trip [...]
Is Creative Block Just Part of Your Process?
Blocked! Words are not spilling onto the page; color choices elude you; you can’t embody the character you’ve been chosen to portray. Simply put, you’re stuck! It’s not the first time you’ve been stuck and certainly not the last if you’re a creative being. In your stuck-ness you beat yourself up, and often others, [...]
Blocked Creatively? Here’s A Get Out of Jail Free Card
The most damaging restrictions on a creative person’s freedom are self-imposed. What may have started out as a new idea, a new methodology, becomes routine, a habit, after awhile. Habits are the comfort zone. Once snuggled into a comfort zone there is a tendency to stay. However, this is not what a creator is [...]
How to Tap Into Your Greatest Talent
It’s a funny thing. What you excel at, what is your greatest gift, may not be obvious to you. You may believe that what you do and create so effortlessly is easily achieved by anyone and everyone. It comes so naturally for you that you think it comes just as naturally for [...]
Top 3 Creative Sinkholes
In my conversations with artists, actors, writers, singers and musicians I’ve noticed a pattern of three ’sinkholes’ that suck the creative energy right out of a person. There are various nuances and sub-categories within the top three but for the sake of brevity I’ve sorted the big energy drainers into the following three funnels:
1. Living [...]
How to Live Fully – When Your Life Feels Too Full
“I feel like we’re playing hooky from work!” I turned and looked at my husband’s wider-than-life grin beaming across his face in the afternoon sun. Drawing a deep breath, I took in the incredible beauty around us: snowcapped mountains, blue skies above and fresh snow under our feet. “You know, [...]
Overcoming Self-Sabotage and Fear: A 4 Step Process
“Self-sabotage is when we say we want something and then go about making sure it doesn’t happen.” – Alyce P. Cornyn-Selby
Underneath any unwanted self-sabotaging pattern of behavior is fear. These undesirable experiences can include career self-sabotage, any form of addiction, workaholic or shopaholic lifestyles, a series of bad relationships in your personal and professional life [...]
What it Takes to Actualize Your Creative Talents
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade? – Benjamin Franklin
The most exciting place to discover and actualize your talent is in yourself. What does it mean to realize your talents, and how do you do it? When you actualize your talents you understand them clearly [...]
Show Up Naked – Honor Your Authenticity
“A poem is a naked person… Some people say that I am a poet.” – Bob Dylan
When you show up naked, vulnerable, authentic and open, you allow others to genuinely see who you are. You’ve heard the old adage, “Actions Speak Louder than Words”. It’s true. When you fully realize that what you [...]
How to Slay the Fear Monger Through Creativity
Fear cripples creativity. Nothing new there. We’ve all experienced fear as we reach for inspiration, motivation and satisfaction. Fear dwells at the bottom of the pit of desperation. Fear is the lowest of lows.
I have a client who came to me and said that she felt like she was stuck in a vat [...]
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