“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.
Home Away from Home: Creating What’s Next from What’s Not Working
This week, with 80 days remaining until 2012, I begin a series of posts that will take you around the Wheel in 80 days. My intention is to offer you a framework you can use to achieve something new by the end of this year, and to find your own true nature on the journey. Today, I begin where the creative process begins, at Home.
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.
A Moment is a Treasure
Life can be magic. And for those of us who are fortunate enough to be in the place to think about that, let us not fail to do so.
The Blue Balloon: Consciously Creating your Effect on the World
I’m not sure exactly when I spotted it, but there among the tourists, locals and Saturday workers was a small blue balloon, caressing the bricks of the sidewalk as it floated along. I observed its effect on the world around it. And that made me think of how similar we humans are. Is not our effect on the world made possible by our sense of separation from it?