2012 is my year of Self-Compassion, Untangle(ing) and Practice. Within those three overarching themes, however, are lots of much more specific goals. Busting clutter, for example. Under the theme of Practice, and in keeping with the spirit of my 15 Minutes-a-Day Creative Challenge, 2012 is also shaping up to be my Year of Writing. And…
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The Flinch, The Tower, and Your Legacy
You’re a Creative. You want you need to express that inner creative drive. In small ways, in big ways — it doesn’t matter. For Creatives, the act of creating — whether it’s painting or drawing or writing or making music or anything else — is essential. You have to create to feed your own soul….
How to Win Your Creative Battles and Be a Victor in the War of Art
Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny. This second, we can turn the tables on Resistance. This second, we can sit down and do our work. ~ Steven Pressfield, The War of Art…
Stretching Watercolor Paper on My New Boga Board (and farewell to the 15 Minutes a Day Art Check-in)
Yes, you can go ahead and watch the video, I know you want to. But before I write about the Boga Board, let me just say that yes, this post marks my farewell to the weekly 15 Minutes a Day art check-in. Not because it’s failed, and certainly not because I’m stopping my 15 Minutes…
Friday Finds: Love, Love and Goddesses
Here’s what I’ve found recently that I think you’ll enjoy: Love Stuff Savoring the Date Everybody loves a good “how we met” story. I’ve always thought it would be cool to assemble a collection of such stories, maybe in a book, or nowadays on a blog. Thriving Artists Project member Toby Simon has been doing…
Travel Hacking Cartel: How to Be a Rockstar Traveler
In 2007 a friend offered me free ticket to anywhere I wanted to go in Europe. I chose Italy. Why? Well, of course, if you’ve been there, you know why. And I’d been there. The summer I was 15, my family went on a 7+ week trip to 6+ countries, starting with Italy. Our plane…
5 Reasons Why Dave Navarro Rocks My World: A Review of the Launch Coach
Dave Navarro (aka The Launch Coach, aka @RockYourDay on Twitter) rocks my world. Why? In my quest to create the life I really, really want, I’ve searched high and low for mentors and teachers who could help me create a business model where I’m doing what I love, and making money from it. It took…
Making Headway, and 5 Reasons Why I’m Switching WordPress Themes
Yes, I am making headway, though not always as fast as I’d like. The big problem with being multi-passionate and always having a lot of balls in the air is that there’s simply not enough time to do everything I want to do, when I want to do it. Case in point: I recently finished…
7 reasons why my hero is a car thief: Chris Guillebeau & The Art of Nonconformity
I admit it: my hero is a car thief. Well, okay, a former car thief, but still. Who is my hero? Chris Guillebeau, whose Unconventional Book Tour for his new book, The Art of Nonconformity, starts today. Okay, the car thief part is a bit inflated, though Chris did indeed steal a car at age…
Review: Scribe SEO
So the other day I fell victim to was inspired by a soon-to-be-ending promotion to try out a product I’d been lusting after for awhile: Scribe SEO. Aside from resonating with the name (being a calligrapher, after all), this search engine optimization software just looked totally cool. It analyzes the content of web pages, blog…
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