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100 Day CreativeChallenge: Day 37

100 Day CreativeChallenge: Day 37 Be A Weirdo   Masaru Ibuka, who founded Sony once said, “Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.” Being weird is just being open to different experiences and ideas. We can all develop an openness to new experiences and step out of our comfort […]

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100 Day CreativeChallenge: Day 36

100 Day CreativeChallenge: Day 35 Finding Your Brave I never met Ruthee Elisabeth Carnegie, but her words have impacted me. Her life has spoken to me thorough the lives of several of my friends. She battled with cancer for the last couple of years yet she inspired her friends to live life with fragrance and […]

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100 Day Creative Challenge: Day 35

Live An Amplified Life To amplify means to: exaggerate deepen heighten intensify magnify strengthen boost develop raise stretch jazz up   There are lots more synonyms I could trot out, but you get the picture. Most of the time, life is made up of ordinary moments, the everyday moments that don’t get broadcast to the […]

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100 Day CreativeChallenge: Day 34

100 Day CreativeChallenge: Day 34 A Revolution in Your Heart   I’ve had a pretty crappy sort of day. It’s a New Year and I’ve had a setback with my recovery. I spent the day in bed feeling very low, sore and very lazy. At church tonight the sermon was about making progress and making […]

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100 Day CreativeChallenge: Day 33

100 Day CreativeChallenge: Day 33  Frame It! Build It! I’ve been on a road trip the last couple of days and, because I’m recovering from surgery, all I’m allowed to do is read. (Not that I’m complaining! Reading is my number one hobby.) Reading is my hobby, but it’s also homework. (Seriously!) I was privileged […]

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100 Day Creative Challenge: Day 32

100 Day Creative Challenge: Day 32 Appointments For Adventure New Year is traditionally a time when we reflect on the previous year and make resolutions or plans for the next. As a writer, I imagine the New Year as a blank page, one to be filled with  potential stories, ideas and characters which will form […]

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One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 31

One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 31 Recovering a Sense of Possibility LESSON FIVE: It’s Time to Dream It’s New Year’s Eve again. It only seems like yesterday I was sitting here at my desk dreaming about 2015 and its possibilities and now we’re in the final hours. I’ve never been one for New Year’s Resolutions […]

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One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 30

One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 30 Recovering a Sense of Possibility LESSON FOUR: An Artist Requires Creative Solitude If you’ve ever done a Myers Briggs personality test you may have been a screaming mess like I was. The introvert/extrovert divide is not that clear in any test I’ve done. I remember asking if I could begin the […]

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One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 29

One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 28 Recovering a Sense of Possibility  LESSON FOUR: REPLACE ‘NO WAY!’ WITH ‘MAYBE.’ Julia Cameron calls finding our creative voice and following its guidance, ‘Finding the River’ in her book The Artist’s Way. When we begin to recover our sense of possibility we find ourselves saying, “You could still […]

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