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...]
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...]
The Power of Calling in the Explorer’s Mind Perspective
July 25, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Intensely rich moments leave very clear memories in their wake. While living through the actual experience, you suddenly feel hyper aware of everything. Exhilarated and slightly afraid at the same time, these pivotal moments are firey, intense and life-changing to the core, as you dive down into new territory with an open “explorer’s mind”. At times, you really have no other choice. Most of the time, however, life is led by a more passive pace, guided by the same perceptions, habitual … [Read more...]
Thoughts or Assumptions: What Rules Your Inner Guidance?
March 7, 2013 By 1 Comment
To assume is to make an ass out of “u” and “me” -- at least that is what my ninth grade math teacher used to say. And to be clear, math was not my favorite subject (except for geometry). I often went into class with assumptions in tow -- “this is going to be hard and confusing, math is boring, I wonder if I will be called out to look like an idiot in class” -- and they morphed into new assumptions when my initial thoughts did or did not come true. Since the teacher made a habit of walking down … [Read more...]
Regret or Learn? It’s Always a Choice
February 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Rolling along in life we actively make choices in every moment, even if it doesn't always feel that way. Many of them seem so simple and inconsequential, easily gliding by us as our auto-pilot does the heavy lifting. So when the sting of a few unexpected “life slaps” sneak up, at first they can feel like little mosquito bites; a pinch with a tinge of redness that’s just plain irritating. Soon you realize you keep going back to it, scratching it, and before long it starts getting crazy itchy and … [Read more...]