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This first appeared on Recovery.org: https://www.recovery.org/pro/articles/5-simple-tactics-for-creating-in-recovery/ 5 SIMPLE TACTICS FOR CREATING IN RECOVERY Many ghosts, demons, and new challenges confront a creative person when he first enters recovery. On top of...

Deadlines provoke anxiety! Learn from how working artists deal with the anxiety of deadlines. Jerry explained: The thing that works best for me is to have a written calendar that I can look at all at once with all the year’s deadlines written down.  If I need to...

If you’ve ever had problems with meaning, I recommend my new book to you that just came out this weekend! It’s called Life Purpose Boot Camp and it’s really worth your time and attention. Take a look here:...

Artists, like all human beings, have multiple life purposes and various ways of describing their purposes. Have you ever tried to articulate your life purposes? It’s an excellent and even a life-changing exercise to try to state your life purposes and to then go one...

Here is a nice opportunity for you to investigate your life purposes and bring them into your daily life in a more powerful way AND get some exposure in Professional Artist Magazine. I’m writing a piece for Professional Artist Magazine on life purpose icons, which are...

My new book Life Purpose Boot Camp comes out in about a month. Life Purpose Boot Camp is an 8-week program that does something really interesting. First, it explains the relationship between meaning and life purpose. Second, it describes a process for making strong...

Cezanne famously said, “With an apple I will astonish Paris!” What he meant was, “Using an ordinary apple as my starting point, a subject painted a million times before, I will make some new meaning because of my artistic vision, my facility with a brush, my personal...

In the wake of the suicide of Robin Williams the following is important to consider. Providers of mental health services tend not to take a client’s meaning needs and life purpose concerns into account. How often is a client asked, “Tell me a little bit about your...

Virtually all of us tend to scorn small increments of time and “throw away” fifteen minutes here and forty-minutes there, arguing that we are doing so much already that those windfalls need not be used productively. We opt to check our email, surf the Net, play a...