Effectively Use Small Chunks of Time

If you’re an artist and one of your chief complaints is that your day rushes by in such a way that it is hard to secure real chunks of time to paint, then you must get very clever at organizing your mind, your equipment, and your life so as to make the best use...

Demand Grandeur

We tend to associate the word “grandeur” with events like royal weddings and sights like the Grand Canyon. Hotels are grand, canals are grand, and cruise ships are grand. But something about that way of thinking prevents us from demanding grandeur from the other stuff...

Banish Your Distraction Addictions!

We have to break our habit of routinely and reflexively turning to one of our “distraction addictions” to while away our free minutes! As a matter of routine, and without thinking about it, people nowadays check their email, browse the news online, turn to Facebook or...

Settle Into Mystery

An everyday creative person celebrates, honors, and lives with mystery. When you create you lose yourself in mystery. Unfortunately most people hate the idea that they’ve been dropped into a mystery that requires unraveling. They want simple answers and unequivocal...

Do the Tiniest Thing

What tiny things does an everyday creative person do in support of her creativity? When she has an idea, she writes it down. When something catches her eye, she sketches it. When she walks down the street and something catches her attention, she is not embarrassed to...