Station 3 of the Wheel of Creativity is what I call Anorexia. For me, it describes our compulsion to say No to whatever nourishes us. Best-selling author Steven Covey uses the phrase in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, “Exercise integrity in the moment of choice.” This station reveals our tendency to do the contrary. And it plays a powerful role in the creative process.
The 12 Days of Creativity… Day 2
“If only I knew what I wanted.” Discovering what you’re called to – what you want to do, be, have, or create – seems like the first step in the creative process. In fact, it is the second. Knowing what you want is a response to knowing what you don’t want.
The 12 Days of Creativity… Day 1
Christmas is just 12 days away; the end of the year just another week more. Choose one area of your life you’d like to change. And join me for 12 Days of Creativity as I give you the framework to create something new there, one day at a time.
Home Away from Home: Creating What’s Next from What’s Not Working
This week, with 80 days remaining until 2012, I begin a series of posts that will take you around the Wheel in 80 days. My intention is to offer you a framework you can use to achieve something new by the end of this year, and to find your own true nature on the journey. Today, I begin where the creative process begins, at Home.
80 Days Until Christmas: What will you create with yours?
Eighty days left until Christmas. What will you create with yours?
Celebrating The Creative Harvest
Today I swam in the English Channel, and she shared her creative harvest with me. Harvest is the final station of the Wheel of Creativity, which describes life as a creative journey to which we are each called by our hunger for something more. From the first station (Hunger) to the last (Harvest), our responses determine the quality of our crops. And this is where we always have a choice.