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.
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.
Life is a Creative Adventure: A Profile
This morning, again, I find myself deeply touched by the creative adventure that life is… from the cradle to the grave. Each day, as I make my pilgrimage to be baptized in the sea, I am privileged to be present for the testimony of another personal story to the beauty of being alive. This morning, there are two.
Creativity dreams in the desert
I am just back from Dubai. The city of superlatives in every form, towering above a sea of average Western franchises. This time, my most memorable moments came in my encounters with the ordinary people I met and the dreams they shared with me. Nature loves diversity, and creativity too. The Wheel of Creativity is turning.