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The Mind and Creativity

What Box? Five Ideas for Innovative Approaches to your Creative Business

August 17, 2010

WHAT BOX?

> Five ideas for innovative approaches
to your creative business
Last week I offered my email list a free 7-page booklet “FOCUS”
Most of this email talked about you, me, creative coaching, and four places that I had opening up in my schedule for individual work with me.
The email below was typical of those I [...]

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Are You Ready? Creative Ideas Part II

June 8, 2010

Are You Ready? Part 2
Another 32,759 Ideas for Positive Creative Change
Everywhere you look, there are people adding their inspiration, energy and ideas to the creatively developing mix of our global culture.
As one of you said in a comment on my blog yesterday “You can either see the glass as half empty or half full – [...]

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4 Actions against Creative Fears

April 17, 2010

Today’s Territory:
4 Actions Against Creative Fears

Why fears and doubts arise as you create.
What to do about it.
or:

TIGERSandMAMMALSandFEARS, oh my!

First, realize that every stable person has fears.
You are not unique, and your fears are not unique.
You are unique in other ways, but not this one. This is a good thing.

So I bet [...]

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Bing! 13 Inspiration Sources

April 7, 2010

Today’s Territory: Inspiration!

Our creative projects all spring from an original inspiration. And the more inspired we are, often the more excited and satisfied when we are through.
Here, 13 ideas for inspiration in celebration of Spring Herself.
( Thirteen is originally a sacred and lucky number, the number for transcendance and change. Did you know that? Look [...]

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Mirror, Mirror-5 Ways to Turn Away from Doubt

March 24, 2010

Today’s territory, that common issue:
Mirror, Mirror
Doubt, Self-reflection, and 5 ways to move from one to the other.
For all of us, self-doubt is challenging. For anyone who needs to have confidence in their own vision and voice, it can be excruciating. Getting lost in doubt and second-guessing can derail art-making and debilitate the artist. [...]

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Perception or Projection?

September 5, 2009

Today’s territory

Language and creativity.
Perception can mean different things.

I use it to mean ’the range of sensory input we take in: sight, hearing, smell, tactile awareness, kinesthetic sensing, etcetera’.

Recently a friend used it just as emphatically to mean ‘what we decide about something, that may or may not be true’.

Seems simple but in fact these are [...]

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Available Resources

July 25, 2009

Today’s territory:
The material world, all around you.
When you create, you change your idea into a physical form.
All physical materials can be part of your idea’s form.
Everything is available.
Everything is raw material.
The whole world wants to be part of your art project.
Look at what you do when you make something. You rearrange the current selection of [...]

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Play and Risk

July 15, 2009

Today’s territory:
Play, and playing.
Invention, imagination and risk.
Immersion in another world.
A world of ideas and images, rules and goals, desires and successes.
A world that we create. A world that creates us, in turn.
Hmm.
Playing does many things for children. Turns out that adults derive just as much from playing as kids, physically, emotionally, cognitively, and socially. [...]

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Maps + Making Things

July 4, 2009

Today’s territory:

There, Here, and the path between.
How do you get from the Idea to the Thing Done?
Mapping your path between these two is an important process.
You have a unique path, beloved by you, that takes you to the finished project.
Walk this route every day, explore new and old scenes from along the route.
Do you know [...]

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Perceiving

June 27, 2009

Today’s territory-
Senses and our creative nature.
Perceive means ‘to gather in’,‘to grasp entirely’, ‘to receive or collect’.
Our perceptions arise from how and what we sense.
What we sense gives us both the raw materials,
and the infrastructure,
for our creative actions.
We create as a response to our perceptions.
We will be exploring this more at our Creativity Retreat in France [...]

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