12 Steps to Create a Life You’ll Love to Live. Step 9.


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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12 Steps to Create a Life You’ll Love to Live. Step 8.


Where in your life do you not trust the process? Where do you feel something needs to be happening that’s not? Something’s wrong. Something’s missing. Where is the hardest part of your work to simply sit back and wait? There are times in every creative process when you look around at the field where you planted the seed and see only dirt. Nothing’s happening. And it looks like a failure. This post is #8 in a series of 12 which takes you through the 12 stages of the...

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12 Steps to Create a Life You’ll Love to Live. Step 3.


What is it about human beings that has us habitually say No to the things we love the most? You know what you need to do (to feel good in your skin, to take care of yourself, to reach your personal goals, to make a difference in the world) but somehow you don’t do it and don’t do it and don’t it. Or you know what you need to not do, and you do it anyway. Again and again and again. So many of the people I work with say things like: “I just want to...

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12 Days of Creativity 2012 – Day 6


Christmas is upon us. So each day from now until December 25, drop by The Wheel of Creativity blog for a deep breath of spirit in the midst of the festive flurry. Let’s be creative and connected this Christmas! It’s the best gift under the tree!   Lean back. Take a deep breath. Look up from the screen. Relax.     Station 6 and the Wheel of Creativity gives me… Crisis-a-brewing   There is a moment in any kind of struggle when one feels in full bloom...

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12 Days of Creativity 2012 – Day 5


Christmas is upon us. So each day from now until December 25, drop by The Wheel of Creativity blog  for a deep breath of spirit in the midst of the festive flurry. Let’s be creative and connected this Christmas! It’s the best gift under the tree!   Lean back. Take a deep breath. Look up from the screen. Relax.     Station 5 and the Wheel of Creativity gives me… I – SO – la – tion “To navigate you must be brave . . . and to be...

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