creative process

Resurrection of the Senses: This Creative Life

It’s Easter Sunday, and I decided to go for a walk. Down the quiet tree-covered lane I like to walk, with Life as my close companion, resurrecting me by the senses. Wherever you are today, your world is rich, and your senses are hungry. Unplug. And feed them.

The 12 Days of Creativity… Day 11.

Artist or athlete, entrepreneur or student, discipline is a friend to all those who succeed. A lot of time is spent here in order to achieve mastery; then the result seems natural and effortless. There are no shortcuts here for sustainable reliable performance.

The 12 Days of Creativity… Day 9.

For the artist, it is the first draft, the rough cut, the sketch or the maquette. For a romantic, it could be the first date. In advertising, it is what I recently heard George Lois call, “The Big Idea.” For the entrepreneur, it is….

The 12 Days of Creativity… Day 8.

Tonight is the longest night of this year. So, it’s an appropriate time to enter Station 8 in the Wheel of Creativity, for Station 8 is Gestation. What does it mean to carry an original creative life within you?