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:
- Read my mind over on the blog
- Click here for free stuff to get you fired up and creating
- Find online courses and other inspirational tidbits over at the “Get-Fired-Up” Shop
- Discover how we can work together here, and learn about my live classes and workshops here
- Browse my art in the gallery (where you’ll also find a link to my music site — did I mention I’m a singer/songwriter and Uke Diva?)
Over on the blog, you’ll find a lot of posts about Creative Abundance, following your evolving Bliss(es), being a Passion Pluralite, 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:
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:
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)
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:
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
Have questions? Shoot me an email.
And meanwhile…
Sign up at the upper right to receive articles and inspiration twice a week, plus my free, 3-day mini-course, the Creative Ignition Challenge.
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Visit my Facebook page (where you’ll find another free goody to get you creating…)
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I can’t wait to connect!
Now go get creating!
PS – if you’d like to hang with me once a month (virtually, that is), be sure to sign up for my monthly hangouts. I bring in special guests and we discuss the creative process, plus I do some 1:1 mini-coaching (and sometimes I even play my ukulele!) Click here and scroll down for the monthly hangouts sign-up form.