Creative inspiration is catchy - plain and simple. When you connect with or do things that inspire you that energy and effort lights you up, helping you resonate with your passion and purpose with ease. How connected you are with what inspires you goes in cycles. At times it’s easy to be in tune with your natural creative spark. You have time and space in your day to do little things that keep you grounded and connected with your natural way of being. Yet, as often as life … [Read more...]
Creativity Kick-Start: Build a Creative Inspiration List and Share It
November 17, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Carving a Path for Successful Creative Collaboration as an Empath
November 13, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Creative collaboration is always fun at the start of a project. Ideas are sparking. The energy feels light and fizzy. Connections between the “big picture” and personal intentions are shifting into alignment and it all feels right. Then come the dirty details of creative collaboration. Finding time. Assigning responsibilities, tasks and schedules. Showing up and completing things on a timeline. This point in the process is where something really important … [Read more...]
Creativity Kick-Start: Stop Questioning Creative Timing and Listen
November 10, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Creative timing is one of the biggest influences on your creative path. Creative timing impacts when and if you do something, why, how easy or hard it can be and if your heart is in it or not. With all these little bits of information influencing your effort and direction, it’s important to be clear on how to listen into what the timing is really telling you in the moment - not what you WISH it was telling you. These are very different things. If … [Read more...]
Creative Mojo: Balancing What is With What’s Next
November 6, 2014 By Leave a Comment
When ideas are flowing and your creative mojo feels in alignment it’s quite intoxicating. The energy you feel is contagious, opening your mind and heart to receive as you sit in the beauty of the flow. It’s not just a mind thing, it’s an all over body buzz, like extra cups of coffee or a deep meditation session. This is what so many of us are shooting for, that perfect place of connection and creative flow - but it’s also a paradox. How do you balance being in … [Read more...]
Creativity Kick-Start: Be More Spontaneous to Open Creative Flow
November 3, 2014 By Leave a Comment
How often do you toss well-crafted plans out the window to try something new or accept an unexpected invitation - letting the spark of spontaneity guide your creative flow guide towards more fun? The connection you feel in the moment to a potential creative seed or the tug you sense in your gut feels intoxicating and inspiring, but this happens less and less if you consistently keep a practiced life that never changes. When you leave a little space for the “what-if” you … [Read more...]
The Advantage of Creative Sampling vs Mastery
October 30, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Creative sampling isn’t often seen as a powerful strategy, but at times it can be even more powerful than mastery. When you are hyper-focused on developing a core area of expertise it’s easy to tune out distractions or pieces of information that aren’t in alignment, but you might also miss important signs or insights about your chosen direction. On the other hand, if you are interested in learning more broad-based skills the discernment process is more complex. You play … [Read more...]
Creativity Kick-Start: Identify your Creative Crutch
October 20, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Sometimes a creative block isn’t really a block as much as a worn out creative crutch. It may seem harmless, just part of your routine, but it can also be the reason you feel too comfortable, unwilling to stretch beyond your comfort zone. A creative crutch serves as a very effective distraction that straddles the line between contentment and limitation. It keeps things moving along in ways you know, in the familiar grooves and patterns. The tricky part is that just beyond … [Read more...]
Share an Insight from your Creative Path to Inspire Someone Else
October 16, 2014 By Leave a Comment
The creative path you walk is part of your unique, natural self-expression and a very powerful ally in the self-discovery process. To create is to grow as a person, and to grow as a person you need to be willing to really explore if what you create feels natural and true. This is how your creativity and inner self continue to evolve, hand-in-hand through self discovery. As you move along in life, dancing the line between deeper creative expression and self-discovery, there … [Read more...]
Creativity Kick-Start: Release Romanticized Versions of your Creative Self
October 13, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Part of growing into a more evolved expression of your creative self is knowing when to release what’s no longer needed from the versions that have come before. While bits and pieces of your creative identity always build on each other to shape who you are now, it’s easy to have a bit of “selective memory” and romanticize what could have been - had you stuck to old dreams and plans. This can keep you stuck in an energetic loop of riding the waves of the past, holding onto … [Read more...]
Creativity, Intuition and What Following your Heart Really Means
October 9, 2014 By 1 Comment
Follow your heart - it’s a common phrase that’s true yet over-used, insightful but also a bit nebulous, until you realize the power of it's simplicity as a reminder to practice listening to your intuition. If you make a regular effort to get quiet and turn inward, even in the smallest of ways, your inner voice starts to slowly emerge from the background with more clarity and vitality. What seemed like a bunch of unclear, out-of-focus background noise begins to shape into a … [Read more...]