Lately, I’ve been watching “Gardener’s World,” a BBC show that I view on BritBox. I love digging in the dirt, and the images of these beautiful gardens thrill me. The gorgeous cinematography overflows with the brilliant color of flowers and foliage of every kind, and…
Category: creativity Exercises
We’ve all seen them at concerts – those dudes sitting on the side with their displays of t-shirts and hats featuring your favorite rock-n-roll superstars. They’re selling branded merchandise for you to take and display your love for this musician to the world. So, what…
Whenever challenges arise that I know are going to be weird and hard and thrilling and joyous and horrible all at the same time, I turn to music to keep moving. The right song lets me sing the words in my heart and dance in…
As I wrote up my report for January, I kept getting this picture in my mind of speaking to a group of people sitting around a conference table. They all wore regular “business wear,” peering up at me in their blazers and button-down shirts. This…
We all have wings, our tools that we carry with us. These tools aren’t necessarily your literal tools, like pens or brushes or saws. Tools travel with us in our being: our intuition, kindness, knowledge, expertise. Supporting us through hard times; they are the skills…
Though each milestone—brand new years, birthdays, anniversaries—makes us think about our lives, I love the end of January for setting our goals. The pressure of the “New Year, New You” drifts away with the revelry of the holidays and we can think clearly. What will…
Sometimes, sleeping on it isn’t an option. Our brains won’t let the problem go and continue to whip it up into our consciousness. When this happens, I feel like I have a hamster in my head, leaping onto his wheel and running. The creaking, whirring…
So much of stamina is being able to return again and again to something. Often, we approach our work feeling a little discouraged. We think we’re invisible. We think no one cares. But what if we’re doing it just because we want to? Our creative…