Dear Creativity, Oh how much I do love you, dearest. You’ve always been there for me, after all these years. Even if you might have been hidden in the beginning – or maybe it was me, not paying enough attention to you? On a bad day you manage to help me make it a good [...]
What?! The cold hard truth sounds pretty harsh, right? I know that your first reaction might be to disagree with me. Of course talent and merit matters, doesn’t it? Well, it might matter but it is NOT the secret to success. I’m positive you know people who are wonderfully talented, yet still far from success [...]
I don’t think we can ever be completely ready for anything in life. My pregnancy and now motherhood experience has really tested me on that point. I think it’s the same when it comes to the roller coaster ride of entrepreneurship. You can never be completely ready, so why wait? Instead of hesitating and stalling [...]
Do you ever stop and wonder why it is you need permission to go ahead and embark on a particular ambition of goal? What permission, why permission and from who? It’s amazing how oftentimes we are the ones holding ourselves back. Maybe it’s fear – resistance of some kind. You wait and wait for permission [...]
I’ve been thinking about fear and how sometimes it seems as if we fear… fear itself. Fear is automatically considered a negative feeling and we are constantly trying to not be fearful, to overcome it, to conquer it. No matter how much we try, it’s impossible to eliminate fear from our range of emotions and [...]
Been thinking about how so many things in our lives are subject to perspective. You look at a situation in one way and it’s all roses. You look at it in another way and it can be tragic and dramatic. I feel as if we actually have so much power over how we feel. Despite [...]
So I’ve been MIA doing the very important work of giving birth to our son on February 27th and diving into the duties of being a mom. Now I know what it’s like first-hand and it’s not possible to describe all the feelings I have inside. Suffice to say that it’s beautiful and amazing and [...]
Perseverance is defined to be steady persistence in a course of action, purpose or state – especially in spite of difficulties, obstacles or discouragement. Sounds like it applies very much to our creative practices, don’t you think? Seth Godin sums it all up nicely as well. There’s always going to be an element of unknown in our endeavors. You have to keep at it no matter what [...]
“The routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightning bolt of inspiration, maybe more. And this routine is available to everyone.” – Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit Do you have a creative ritual that powers you up every single day without fail? I used to think that artists had this magical, transcendent [...]
“I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and type of parts they need. So I figure if the entire world is a big machine, I have to be here for some reason. And that means you have to [...]
