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If you have a teenage artist in your life, you might like to aim him or her in the direction of a forthcoming book of mine called Why Smart Teens Hurt. This is a sequel to a popular book I did a few years back called Why Smart People Hurt and addresses the special...

Do you find that starting a painting or some other creative project is relatively easy to do, working on it difficult but doable, but completing it really difficult? Do you have lots of unfinished creative work around, really far too much? I am currently working on a...

I've been training creativity coaches for twenty years and as a result there are now creativity coaches all over the world who work with creative and performing artists, helping them deal with the challenges of the marketplace, issues of resistance and creative...

[Pre-order The Great Book of Journaling now! Filled with contributions from journal experts from around the world. Come enjoy!} As many of us still aren’t traveling, for safety and health reasons, I thought you might enjoy a vicarious trip to Paris today. Please...

Do you like to journal or would you like to learn more about journaling? And would you like to create a stronger daily creativity practice as well? Then do the following . Pre-order my new book THE GREAT BOOK OF JOURNALING and then drop me an email to...

[Learn how to upgrade and redesign your mind in Eric Maisel's latest book, Redesign Your Mind, available now.] One summer morning I go out shopping for fruit at the open-air market on the Boulevard Richard-Lenoir. The prices at the multi-block market are low—whole...

[If you enjoy journaling or want to know more about journaling, please see my latest book The Great Book of Journaling. It’s available for pre-order now!] Lucia Capacchione has been championing “the power of our other hand”—that is, our nondominant hand—for a long...

Come join my Artists with Appetites group that starts Monday, April 4, 2022. To learn more, please visit here. A very different kind of weight loss group Appetite is a great thing. If you’re a composer, better to hunger to create your symphony than not care about it....

Keeping a journal is simplicity itself. It’s just you with your thoughts. In her chapter of “journaling simplicity” in The Great Book of Journaling, Kathleen Adams describes three short, simple journaling techniques that you might find useful. See if they work for...

[Over the next few weeks, we’ll look at best journaling practices for artists. To learn much more, please take a peek at The Great Book of Journaling.] A lot of people like to journal. They keep journals for all sorts of reasons—as a special private time, as a way to...