Creative people aren’t any different from people who don’t consider themselves to be creative. It’s just that creative people have chosen to say “yes” to their heart’s longing to express itself. Creativity comes from the heart. Anyone in this world who is offering something truly authentic is letting their heart lead the way.
For many years, I led creative writing workshops. Early on I noticed that some writing prompts tended to keep people entrenched in their thinking mind… and their subsequent writing was heady and dry. These writing prompts often involved using a word or newspaper headline to write from. Their writing might have been slick and witty,…
One of the biggest misnomers about creativity is that we need to have “clarity” about something before we begin. The other day I received an email that read: Every day I think about a written book, so I know it is coming. However, I do need clarity in order to bring it into manifestation. I…
1. Be Authentic. Where are you out of integrity with yourself? Our creativity flourishes when we’re in alignment with our loves, passions and true desires. 2. Make Connections. At its most basic, creativity is about making connections between things…connections that no one else has yet seen. 3. Be Something Else for a Moment. What does…
It’s destructive. The creative process is as much about destruction as it is making something new. It needs space, and one way the creative process makes sure it has that space is to clear out the old or what’s no longer working. It will destroy whatever is in its way. (Don’t worry, if you really…
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