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In my latest book Redesign Your Mind I explain how you can not only change what you think but how you think. You can do this simply and elegantly by visualizing the room that is your mind and by engaging in some redesigning and redecorating. You’ll find that this is...

First, please remember to get your Great Creativity Toolkit! Come check it out here. Now, on to this week’s post: Creative and performing artists are obliged to understand that they are essentially running a small, one-person business in addition to creating or...

[Remember, the Great Creativity Toolkit is now available. Come take a look!] If you’re a creative person, you’ve often had the following experience. Something “large” inhabits you: a theme for a clothing line, a whole novel, a complete sense of what a song cycle...

Come check out The Great Creativity Toolkit! Even if an artist is successful, it can be rather hard for him or her to deal with the successes of other. Envy is a powerful problem for creatives; as is our built-in instinct for competition, an instinct that can be...

[Get your GREAT CREATIVITY TOOLKIT today!] This is a strange time for everyone and an especially strange time for creatives, who may suddenly have more time on their hands but who may also be finding themselves too distracted and off-balance to create. On top of that,...

Great artists wax lyrical about nature and find nature valuable as muse and as emotional healer. Picasso wrote of going to the forests of Fontainebleau Palace and “gorging on green,” then rushing home to disgorge all that color. Van Gogh remarked that the genius of...

Guided visualizations are useful tools and a staple of both the self-help literature and the arsenal of tools that coaches and therapists employ. In today’s post called “Tapping into Your Higher Consciousness,” creativity coach Marj Penley leads us through an...

We may feel small, cramped, and contained, as if we were living in a tight box; or we can create a much more expansive sense of self, one large enough to dream, create, and succeed. In today’s post creativity coach Michele Jennae plays with these ideas in a post...

Hello, artists, check this out! The Great Creativity Toolkit is now available! It’s got more than 50 video lessons from creativity coaches worldwide, perfect for every creative person! What does it take to live a creative life? What will help you become the writer,...

I often advise clients to “take a walk by the lake,” by which I mean “get out of the house” and “get out of your head.” There’s just about no better way to solve a creative problem or to incubate a new idea than to take a walk. Many of our great geniuses pencilled in...