Inspiration is a powerful force that can drive us to achieve great things. But for many of us, finding inspiration can feel like a mystery that eludes us. In a world filled with distractions and competing priorities, it can be hard to tap into that inner spark that propels us forward. So, how can we understand the process of inspiration in order to use it to produce more creative work?
The Vulnerability of a Creative Vision
Vulnerability is an essential part of the creative path. From the vulnerability to connect deeply with ourselves, to the vulnerability to share ourselves with others. This is the most sacred principle of original creative work.
The Story Challenge: What story do you want to tell with your life?
If you decide to take The Story Challenge, all next week (January 31 – February 6) you will get a daily email to guide you through that process of building your story day by day, one stone at a time.
The Life In Your Years: Making Meaning in Every Decade
Each decade of life brings a developmental task we need to complete in order to move forward in our lives in strength. If any of these tasks are not achieved, we move forward in life socially, psychologically or emotionally crippled, with parts of ourselves broken and fragmented. What do you need to move forward from here?
Four Common Denominators of the Innovator’s Attitude #3: To Be Disruptive, Steer by your Inner Compass.
The only way to create something that has never been done before is to think what people have never thought before; creating new solutions requires you to see old problems in new ways. But to see what no one else can see is a lonely place to be. So you need an inner compass – […]
Four Common Denominators of the Innovator’s Attitude #2: Give up the Good for the Great.
“Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.” – Peter Drucker Richard Branson started an airline because his plane from Puerto Rico to his lover in the British Virgin Islands was cancelled. Mark Zuckerberg created the first version of Facebook to help students find hot dates. […]