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Many creatives appear to be burdened by inexplicable ailments that defy diagnosis. What can you do if you find yourself in such a situation? Here are four tips. 1. Because the underlying biological cause of a physical ailment can be very hard to discern or pin down,...

Please mark your calendars. I’m offering four FREE webinars in December that I think may interest you. They are: The Art of Creativity Coaching Friday, December 2, 2 p.m. pacific/5 pm eastern Mastering Creative Anxiety Friday, December 9, 2 p.m. pacific/5 pm eastern...

You absolutely want to build your list: but you also want to retain that list and stay in great communication with your most loyal fans. This takes care and attention! A blog post that strikes the wrong note can lose you 10% of your list overnight. One well-known...

Are you curious about what really goes on in a coaching session? How effortless, effective coaching works? Do you perhaps want to become a coach yourself, to supplement your income or because it intrigues you? Here are two routes: I invite you to take my Mastering the...

An artist had better not wait to be inspired before beginning to work, since inspiration typically only comes to artists who are willing to work when not inspired. Tchaikovsky put it this way: "I'm inspired about every fifth day, but I only get that fifth day if I...

Unless you are impervious to the facts of existence—and no one is—you must learn how to create in the middle of things.  You must learn how to create when wars are raging and when your own hormones are raging.  You must learn how to create even if you hate your...

I’ve been writing a lot lately about authoritarians: what you can expect from them, how contact with them harms you and wounds you, and what you can do to heal and recover from authoritarian wounding. Artists, who are typically highly sensitive and who are also...

[Don’t forget to get your hands on a recent book of mine, Redesign Your Mind. It will help you a lot!] Okay, here we go! Marketing is hard enough without sabotaging yourself with unhelpful self-talk. You say that you don’t like marketing? Change your self-talk! What...

Get inspired! Here are 14 artists on loving art. Enjoy! ** "I love red so much that I almost want to paint everything red." -- Alexander Calder ** "I hardly ever paint people unless I'm rather in love with them." -- Sylvia Sleigh ** "Every picture shows a spot with...

The sales part of life—selling your paintings to buyers, selling your wedding band to wedding planners, selling your coaching services to prospective clients, “selling” your novel to literary agents and publishers—is, well, an unavoidable part of our life. We would...