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A few weeks ago, I wrote about how you can use your “sleep thinking” to improve and increase your creativity. Many of you wrote to ask how precisely this process works and if there were steps to take to increase your own sleep thinking abilities. There are indeed...

Spring may not be here yet but we can begin to anticipate it! Some inspiring quotes from women artists: "I have gone into roses and have over a thousand planted. There is nothing like making pictures with real things."-- Mary Cassatt "Just as I begin to mourn the...

A little inspiration from Vincent van Gogh: + "If we look at the Japanese artist, we see a man who is undoubtedly wise. What does he spend his time doing? Studying a single blade of grass." + "The cypresses are always occupying my thoughts. I should like to make...

And here are the last four tips in the "completing creative projects" series! 9. Get strategic help. You’re trying to finish up your independent film documentary but a handful of tasks stand between you and completion. Some of them are technical and require new...

Last week I shared four tips for completing your creative work. Here are four more! 1. Create a completion checklist. Devise a way of creating a punch list that helps you check off tasks. If, for example, you are doing something as complicated as making an independent...

Here are 4 tips for completing your creative projects. Give them a try! 1. Hold the intention to complete your creative projects. Many creatives who suppose that they want to complete their creative projects are actually harboring more reasons for leaving their work...

Here’s an excerpt from my forthcoming book The Magic of Sleep Thinking that comes out in a month from Dover. The book can be preordered now! ** If you want to use your brain’s ability to think while you sleep, just create a sleep thinking prompt or question that takes...

Anyone who puts creative work out in the world invites criticism. What are the best ways to deal with the criticism that may be coming? Here are five useful tips: 1. Grow a thicker skin Your prime strategy is to grow a thicker skin and let criticism bounce right off...

When you enter the marketplace, you open yourself up to criticism. You might as well accept that fact. Some people will like what you do and others won’t—and those who don’t may well share their unflattering opinions with you. Nothing injures the psyche more...

To what extent ought you to be your “real self” in your public interactions in the art marketplace? Think of the elementary school teacher who would love to smile but who has learned that to maintain order in her classroom she must adopt a certain stern attitude until...