The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 5 Today I’m thinking about how I’m going to approach the New Year. January’s New Year Resolutions sneer at us in December, confronting us with all we did not achieve. Self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination are gifts we can use every day. Creativity isn’t just […]
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 4 Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert is the latest book on creativity I’ve studied. There’s something about her down-to-earth, tell-it-like-it-is style that is refreshing. It’s not an artsy-fartsy, pie-in-the-sky book that leaves you feeling inadequate or squashed by the weight of the pressure to be creative. To […]
#35 Days of Dares #18 Dare to Be Brave Being brave is not about never feeling scared. I don’t know how many times my body has frozen rigid in fear and yet stepped out to do something brave. I like this quote by Nelson Mandela: I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, […]
