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6 1/2 Ways Consumerism Impacts Your Creativity

Leave it to Americans to juxtapose Thanksgiving and Black Friday. Start with a day when we acknowledge our non-material blessings and the joy of community, and follow it up with millions giving their credit cards a pre-dawn workout for what will likely distract them from everything they were expressing such gratitude for just one day [...]

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Protecting Your Most Precious Creative Tool

  How well do you maintain the most precious tool in your creative work? No, I’m not talking about your computer or paintbrushes. I’m talking about you—your mind and body. Over the last year or two, I’ve started skimping on sleep, but when I look at almost any challenge in my creative work, I see [...]

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A Juggler’s Guide to Creating Time for Creativity

Are you a juggler, like me, with several balls in the air at all times? Despite all our time-saving devices, our daily lives seem to be fuller than ever. Juggling all those balls can leave us feeling like we don’t have time for our creative work. This is actually my own #1 creative obstacle. If [...]

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Why Your Creativity Would Like You to Get Out More

Here’s a video I made for you on my walk in the desert the other day. And yes, that is my light saber that appears at around 1:45. Tweet

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6 1/2 Ways Consumerism Impacts Your Creativity

Leave it to Americans to juxtapose Thanksgiving and Black Friday. Start with a day when we acknowledge our non-material blessings and the joy of community, and follow it up with millions giving their credit cards a pre-dawn workout for what will likely distract them from everything they were expressing such gratitude for just one day [...]

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Kaizen-Musings on 11/11/11

  I have to admit that I am geeking out on this 11/11/11 thing. Although, as a Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coach, I specialize in creativity, which is considered a largely right-brain specialty, I am actually very whole-brained and can really rock a calculator. So my mathematical mind is in eleventh heaven today. Focusing on the significance [...]

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Who’s in Charge Here, Resistance or Resolve?

Have you ever noticed how, once you resolve to change a pattern in your life, all kinds of stuff suddenly comes up to stop you? Like four years ago, when I forfeited half my teaching income for the promise of self-employment, and I immediately got hit with a $170 speeding ticket I could not afford, [...]

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5 Steps to Overcome Resistance to a New Habit

When my son was born, I developed a habit of being available to him 24/7/365. I had help, but for those first few years, my sense of self diminished, and he became my primary focus. My brain became accustomed to thinking in terms of his needs instead of my own. Now that he’s 8, I’ve [...]

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