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Creativity Tips & Inspiration for Creative Living
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A creative route to wellness
{ Book extract from Tonics For Your Creative Spirit } Did you know that creativity is good for your health? Fun, creative activities may not be the obvious place to begin if you’re looking to improve your health and wellness, but learning to access and express your...
How to design your life (& why)
{ Book extract from Tonics For Your Creative Spirit }“Everyone is a designer.” This quote is one of my favourite insights from a beautiful and inspiring book called The Joy of Home, by one of my interior design heroes, Naomi Cleaver. I love this idea and...
What’s your thing?
{ Book extract from Tonics For Your Creative Spirit }What’s your ‘thing’? That thing – your unique gift, your flair. That thing you can happily spend all day doing, or do with your eyes closed. Each of us has a special skill, our own personal superpower that we’re...
Uplifting & empowering mindset games for grown ups
“The real secret of power is consciousness of power.” ~ Charles Haanel I've been wondering lately about the best ways I can help people feel more uplifted, empowered and inspired, and I keep receiving the nudge to share whatever is helping me. So, as a dutiful...
My 3 Top Tips for finding your dharma
Although I'm still joyfully immersed in Book Creation mode, I have a short-and-very-sweet story to share with you from my work week... When clients make you cry I recently received some client feedback that made me cry. Happily, they were tears of joy. The feedback...
One (introvert-friendly) way to hit the bestseller lists
How a single tweet lead to major media coverage and a spot on a bestseller list for my first self-published book. (Without leaving the house.) Approx. 1pm One day, as I was ‘networking’ on Twitter, I came across a fun and interesting lady and so I clicked...
What is dharma wealth?
If you google What is dharma?, you'll soon see that it's a complicated concept with a huge variety of definitions and meanings.Some say it's a cosmic law of order and right action. While others say it's the inherent nature of our being. It seems that dharma, like many...
A quick tip for connecting with your creative intuition (aka your muse)
Today I have a quick tip for you, if you'd like a stronger awareness of the supportive power of inspiration in your life. There are two words that I've noticed are a tell-tale sign that creative intuition / divine guidance are at play, or as I call it: the handiwork...
A ridiculously simple tech tool for accessing your creative genius
{ An extract from Tonics For Your Creative Spirit } • • • This tech tool is the simplest, yet possibly most powerful way to get creative juices flowing. Email. The humble email app can be a fun and easy way to access the creative genius within. It’s a technique I...
Hitting the snooze button: a creative morning practice
My take on the snooze button debate: To snooze or not to snooze? Maybe there's a healthy, happy and productive middle ground... • • • Are you a snoozer? If you are, here's an idea that might not only soothe your snooze-loving soul but could also help you be...
Inside Creativity Coaching – Edited by Eric Maisel
I'm very proud and happy to be one of the featured coaches in Eric Maisel's latest book: Inside Creativity Coaching 40 Inspiring Case Studies from Around the World Eric Maisel is considered the 'father of creativity coaching', he was also my first mentor when I began...
Creative decluttering for wooing windfalls
A fun and potentially lucrative tip to support your creative adventures... • • • What’s the biggest obstacle between you and the creative life you dream of? For many of my clients and readers, lack of resources is the one thing they claim is preventing them from...
Gratitude prayer for grace, joy and peace
This gratitude prayer evolved as I was writing my latest project, Your Creative Dharma. I developed it as a mantra to support what I was teaching about affirmations and spiritual connection. But with divine synchronicity, it was also a perfectly-timed prayer for the...
Joy : My new Creative Director
A short story from my work this week that led me to appointing a new Creative Director in my business... • • • Yesterday, I had an article to write about creativity and careers, something I'd committed to a while ago, but hadn't got around to doing. And it was...
Any Given Tuesday: Reconnecting With Creative Joy (Guest Post for Eric Maisel)
I recently had the honour of guest posting on behalf of my Creativity Coaching mentor Eric Maisel, as part of his Creativity Exercises That Work! series for Fine Art America. My post was inspired by some of my client work, designed to reconnect creatives with the joy...
2 words that will help you enjoy more clarity, confidence and calm
Do you ever feel stuck in confusion about what to do next? Do you ever find yourself wondering whose advice to follow? Do you ever feel overwhelmed with so many options, strategies, tactics or paths that you don't move forward with any of them? This used to be the...
What do you need to teach?
I'd like to share with you a recent epiphany - in case it helps you with whatever is your biggest challenge at the moment... You may know I have been studying the creative process and the principles of human potential for over 25 years. Why? Well, one reason is that I...
What is dharma?
What does the word dharma mean? This beautiful concept of dharma is my current obsession - but what does dharma actually mean? Dharma is an ancient Sanskrit term with a variety of definitions. These include ‘right way of living’ (Hinduism), ‘cosmic law and order’...
On becoming a blogger: 10 Lessons from 10 Years of Blogging
Flashback to Spring 2009... Apple has just released its new iPod Shuffle, Lady Gaga's Poker Face is dominating the radio, The Twilight saga is breaking Box Office records, and my home is ringing with the sounds of The Night Garden...(Oopsy Daisy! Iggle...
Introducing…Calmfidence. (And how to find it.)
If you've been with me for a while, you've probably noticed that I love making up words. And today I'd like to introduce you to my latest new word: Calmfidence. Can you guess what it means?! I was looking for a word to describe that serene sense of inner...
