Your life is a creative process. What’s yours look like? Feel like? Here, all on one page, are the 12 steps you’ll take to consciously create a life you love. It’s that simple. Not easy, but simple. These steps reflect the experiences and work of each station of the Wheel of Creativity. [listly id=”7i7″ layout=”full”] How long is this going to take? Well, that depends on you, what you’re looking to create, and...
Read More »What are you harvesting in your life? What do you feel you have to put out into the world? And when you finally reach the point of putting it out there, what do you do? The first step of these 12 was to tell the truth, to be honest with yourself: What are you passionate about? What must you have in your life to live? Each step you’ve taken in this process has brought you closer to this point now, where you’re able to sit back, look at the results of the creative...
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How do you get from good to great? Okay so you’ve created your product. You’ve got a first draft or a prototype or a template, or some first something going on. You’re excited about it. You want to put it out in the world. But you’re not sure if it’s quite ready. You have to decide once again what you’re committed to. It might be enough for you to bring your project to this point and let it go. You might recognize: “This is something good, but it’s...
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What do you do when you achieve something? What does it take for you to stop and appreciate who you are in your world, on your street, in your chair and what you bring me into the world just by being you? When do you have the hardest time sitting still? I myself have plenty of difficulty here. It’s always easier for me to just keep moving, keep pushing, keep reaching for the next thing. Keep creating. But that’s a bit like reaching for more food when I’ve not eaten what’s...
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Can you remember a time in your life when things felt really overwhelming? What got you through it? Did you work your way through it? Or did something appear out of the blue when you finally let go? My personal experience is that this magic occurs on the other side of my habitual should: “If I only work harder, I can make this happen.” When I have exhausted myself doing more and more of what I know, I remember, “Oh yeah, I just have to let go; all this fighting will never...
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Life is an ever-changing set of competing priorities, where visions become reality in the context of daily demands. For me these days life is occurring at an ever-quickening level of intensity, as my different priorities compete with the mundane for my time and attention. And I know from talking with clients and students that this is a very familiar place for a lot of people. I hear people tell me, often on the verge of desperation, that they cannot figure out how to create...
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