the fine art of allowing yourself to suck at something
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Tag Archives: creativity
playing the downsides
As I help others navigate through transitions and choices and as I navigate through my own, some of the questions I hear myself asking over and over are about defining or identifying the downsides– So often, we have a longing and are pulled to do something– start a website, write a book, learn something, take… Read More
Andrea Schroeder, 8 min video
This is a video by the rather fabulous Andrea Schroeder, speaking big truths about how to protect our dreams in the face of naysayers. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lik7fHou3Dk?rel=0&w=420&h=315] Share This:
The creativity cycle
http://youtu.be/1sfBiZGvyiQ
Resonance and reframing
Sometimes when you’re in the thick of it, a voice whispers something important. Something that changes everything about how you interpret your experience. These past few weeks have held several of these moments for me. A newsletter I get from Jen Louden about self trust— it brought a reframing of the act of labeling our… Read More
demystification
I want to share resources here when they really work for me– when I feel a real sense that I’ve found a well of riches, or a suddenly well-lighted inspirational pathway, or when something just hits me as *right*. Jen Lee embodies all of these for me– her latest video is amazing– about demystification. It’s… Read More
Animal guides
I did a meditation years ago based on some reading I’d been doing (Feeding Your Demons by Tsultrim Allione), and up came some highly anthropomorphized animal manifestations of my “demons”–my critics, my derailing cautionary babblers, my fears…. and, to honor them, I searched for totems… in so doing, I stumbled across the stupendously fabulous animal… Read More
tiny wings
LOVING this from my friend Sean: http://rockpapermonster.typepad.com/rock-paper-monster/2012/04/six-word-monster-tiny-wings.html Share This:
Vulnerability and its importance to creativity
More than a few nuggets of awesomeness in this recent TED talk given by the amazing Brene Brown: http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_listening_to_shame.html Share This:
Gratitude
This weekend I really, truly felt like I was in my zone– creating, gathering, thinking, discovering…. it wasn’t all gold dust and unicorns, it was thorny, non-linear, uncomfortable, but ultimately, very, very rewarding. I want to feel like this more often– I want to feel like I did while I was planning the weekend… Read More