Welcome, Creative Genius!

If that little welcome made you stand a little straighter and smile, this site is for you.

If it made you look behind you and ask, “Who, me?” this site is for you.

Some people dream of world peace – and yeah, I’m totally down with that too – but my passion, my raison d’être, is to get anyone with even the tiniest glimmer of a creative urge hooked up and glowing.

Sparked, stoked, and creating!

I started this blog to be my own first test subject, to chart my journey as I followed my evolving Bliss(es) to create the life I really, really wanted. You’ll find a lot of posts in the archives that put me and my journey under a microscope. My goal is always to light up a new insight for you (or keep you from making the same damn mistakes I did!)

Oh, my, there’s a lot to look at! Where do I start?

Here’s the basic lay of the land:

• Dive into my blog on the home page
• See my various offerings – both paid and free – over at the “Get-Fired-Up” Shop
• Browse my art in the gallery
• Check out my song tracks and videos in the music studio

Over on the blog, you’ll find a lot of posts about Creative Abundance, following your evolving Bliss(es), being multi-passionate, and how to blast past your Sticking Point and actually DO your creative thing.

To get you oriented, here are some themes I talk about here, and a few posts you might enjoy:

Being a Recovering Perfectionist and Striving Toward Imperfectionism:

The Imperfectionist Manifesto

Click the link above to read the whole post, but here’s the Imperfectionist Manifesto in short:

• Even if you can’t stand what you’ve created, you never know how it may affect somebody else
• Ultimate value doesn’t always have anything to do with technical skill
• Putting stuff out into the world is really gratifying
• Allowing yourself to be imperfect is a helluva lot more fun
• The more you let yourself be imperfect, the more stuff you’ll actually do, and the better you’ll get at it

Playing in the Creative Sandbox:

“Sandbox” Art

Being a Passion Pluralite:

How Your Life is Like a Stove: My Secret for Juggling Multiple Passions

Inside the Mind of an Unrepentant Slasher

Fear, Resistance and all the Stuff That Gets in the Way:

Why You Must Say No to What You WANT to Do

Happiness Comes from Doing, So What Keeps You from Doing It?

Envy, the Comparison Trap, and being enough:

The Comparison Trap: Wrestling with Envy

How My Internet Empire is Like My Dating Life (plus a little Dr. Seuss for good measure)

Turning Envy Into Strength with a Role Model Constellation (plus soup)

The Story of Enough

How just tipping your toe into the Creative Stream a few minutes a day can make all the difference:

The 15 Minutes-a-Day Challenge (the magical thing that got me creating again and more prolific than I ever dreamed I could be, and which I invite you to try for yourself!)

Don’t Knock 15 Minutes a Day (or How to Rock Your Creativity YOUR Way)

Inspiration:

Weekly Review #47: The Power of Inspiration

You’ll also find occasional Random Musings:

Gradually Wandering Into Love

Plus a little Random Fun every once in awhile, because living a creative life should be FUN!

A Little Gift for You from the Uke Diva

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I can’t wait to connect!

xo,
Melissa