“What?” you may be thinking. “Has Melissa flipped her lid? Everyone knows you can’t buy happiness!” Ah, but they’re wrong. You can buy happiness. Just not in the way you probably think. Read on… True, accumulating stuff is not the route to happiness — I’ll be the first to grant that. But money can, indeed…
Category Archives: What I’m Doing NOW
The Creative Ignition Club Is Officially Open!
You know that thing, when you lie down and close your eyes, and there’s this shift in consciousness that happens? What’s it called… Oh, yeah: sleep! That’s what I’m hoping to catch up on this week, after the marathon I’ve been running nonstop for the past.. week? Two weeks? Who remembers anymore? I didn’t do…
In Which Dangerously Delicious Becomes Downright Powerful (Announcing the Creative Ignition Club!)
It started off very innocently. A simple idea, really. Just a little tool box for creatives, to kick-start them into a daily creative practice. Just for one month. A kit to get them creatively ignited… Because if you can hang onto a daily practice for a month, it’s pretty much proof that you can hang…
Riding the Wave of NaNoWriMo (and an Announcement!)
During the decade+ that I spent building up my wedding art business, there were many years when I made my living from the art I made for clients, but I didn’t make any art to feed my soul. Actually, that’s not entirely true. Once a year I did make art for me: at the Friends…
Impact? Or Balance? And is that even the question?
It’s the ever-present dilemma (or at least it’s seemed that way in my life): happiness or greatness? Is it better to sacrifice balance (ie, health, relationships, simple pleasures, sanity…) in order to achieve greatness and make an enormous impact? Or to send out smaller ripples, maybe even pass into obscurity, but live a humane, balanced…
Grooves, Ruts and Why I Dig Uncertainty
How do you know when you’re in a groove or a rut? How do you know when to hold, and when to fold? How do you know if you’re doing your art to feed someone else’s expectations, or your own? And when you figure it out, what then? What ruts have you climbed your way…
The Cat’s Out of the Bag: Art Empowers!
Yesterday Cory Huff and I hosted the last of three “Game-Changer Calls” for artists. We’re both sick to death of the Starving Artist Myth, and decided to combine our unique super-powers and join forces to make a difference for artists, starting with these calls. If you didn’t get a chance to hear the calls, here’s…
Playshop! Art Calls!
No video today, guys. I spent all my video-making time making videos for my upcoming… Playshop! Playshop! Playshop! Playshop! Sorry, I just love that word, and can’t stop saying it… Consider this the official announcement that I am now taking registrations for my very first, inaugural, original, premiere playshop! Yep, the sign-up page is up…
Bubble Bath for the Spirit
When was the last time you played? I mean Just-For-You-To-Make-A-Mess-With-Your-Creative-Thing play. As recently as last summer, if you’d asked me that, I’d have said “Way too long ago..” Maybe you can relate. But even if you’ve taken up my 15 Minutes a Day creative challenge and are making time every day for play, wouldn’t it…
The Secret to Creative Success (or How Your Creative Life Is Like My Backyard)
Let’s just say that my backyard is not as well-tended as it could be. But if I decided to get all Sunset and Gardener’s World, it could totally rock. All it would take is commitment. But the real key is ongoing commitment, right? A one-time garden clean-up would be great for a short time, but…
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When Melissa offered coaching, I jumped at the chance. I gained such HUGE insights! Each time I came up with a reason that I couldn't, she came up with a way that I could. In the end, she gave me an assignment, a realistic and doable one.I'm happy to say that not only was my creativity jumpstarted, but that the love and the joy of creativity is back.
- Sandi Wedemeier, psychic, coach and newly joyful creative, Wit and Wisdom Transformational Coaching
Melissa... has an innate way of not just seeing and creating options for clients, but sparking the creativity you already have within you to come up with your own solutions. Our time flew by... I left inspired and ready to take action.
- Susan Finch, Creative Guide to Life
In my time with Melissa, I was re-energized, admitted to the things I need to stop doing, found the things I want to be doing and was given easy actionable steps to get me back in the creative swing of things. Simply amazing! She is full of energy and wonderful ideas.
-Delisa Carnegie, The Creativity Rebellion
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-Sally, Sally Penley Calligraphics
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