Embrace Your Story: The Path of Authentic Expression


What is the story you want to tell with your life?This week a couple dozen people are asking this question with me, in my annual 7-day Story Challenge. Whether you not you’ve ever gone through the challenge process, it’s a question worth exploring at different points in life. The trick is to explore the question with grace and curiosity rather than expectation and judgment.The word story comes to us from the Latin word historia. And it is our stories with...

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Creative Bravery: Four Antidotes to the Fear of Self-Expression


Closed door in neon hallway

What is your first memory of creative energy?I remember so clearly that night in our family room in Houston. I was about three… and I could feel it. I was dancing around, laughing and waving my arms in the air. But something was different.Suddenly I could feel that the other people in that room were uncomfortable with me, wanted me to stop. What did I conclude? “I’m just too big. I’d better reel in my energy. And quick!” It was a turning point in my life. But it took me...

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12 Days of Creativity 2012 – Day 12


Christmas is almost here! Thank you for stopping by during these past 12 for your daily breath of spirit in the midst of the festive flurry. I have a gift for you! A tiny but heartfelt gift from me for your tree!  Get your FREE DOWNLOAD of my book. Details below!   Lean back. Take a deep breath. Look up from the screen. Relax.     Station 12 and the Wheel of Creativity gives me… a ripe crop to harvest   Often have I heard you say, as if speaking in...

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12 Days of Creativity 2012 – Day 1


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 1 and the Wheel of Creativity gives me… a hunger for something more than this. “Hunger comes to me on the road like a savage beast,...

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Little Pink Spoon #12 from The Wheel of Creativity


This post is part of a series of excerpts from my forthcoming book. You can read them all in the Little Pink Spoons category. You can get advance notice of the book by subscribing to my Creative Adventure Journal over there to your right. The Wheels of Life Some people will be very disappointed if there is not an ultimate theory, that can be formulated as a finite number of principles. I used to belong to that camp, but I have changed my mind. Stephen Hawking The Value of...

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