Embrace Joy in Your Creative Process
My life is filled with “shoulds,” laundry that I should fold and put away, work that I should be doing when I really just want to curl up with a book, and any number of ways that Instagram makes me feel like I should be living. (Did you know that …
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Act – Begin Your Practice
Exercise #4 in Stage Nine of the Creativity Journey – Feed Your Light There’s nothing holding you back now. You understand your unique form of expression, the art that only you can make. You have designed a creative practice and learned the value of creating simply for creativity’s sake. So …
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Explore Your Practice
Exercise #2 in Stage Nine of the Creativity Journey – Feed Your Light By now you may have a pretty good idea of what your creative practice looks like. You’ve defined the principles that will guide your creative life and decided what is and what is not important to you. …
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Feeding Your Creativity with a Creative Practice
One of the most exciting stages of the creative journey is when you find your light, when you discover the creative expression that is uniquely yours. However, once you find that light, you need to keep feeding it with a regular creative practice. The fear you may face at this …
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Creative Play Newsletter – Let’s Make a Plan!
I have been thinking a lot about vision and strategy over the last few months. One reason for that is that I’m reflecting about what’s really important during this great pause in life brought on by a global pandemic. I think that the other reason is that I’m not making …
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Creative Play Newsletter – Crafting Strategy
Last month I wrote about how to define a vision for your creative practice. Visions are important because they define the end goal; they help you to understand where you are going. What they don’t do for you, however, is to tell you how to get there. That’s where a …
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