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I believe that we’re all creative. We’re unique human beings, and creativity is our unique essence and contribution to the world. We all have our own way of thinking about ideas and challenges, and we all have our own way of expressing ourselves creatively. As children, we explore all sorts of avenues with our creative … Continue reading Where does creativity go?
I’m feeling creatively frustrated at the moment. Because it’s summer holidays for school, it means I’m working shorter weeks so I can spend time with my 7 year old daughter. Which is lovely (when she’s not being bossy!), but it does mean my usual routine goes out of the window. It means that I don’t … Continue reading Is it possible to find creative time over the summer holidays?
They (whoever “they” are) say that you should “lean into your weirdness” – show up as yourself on social media and online, so that you can connect with the type of people you would enjoy working with. And I believe in that, I do. So why then is my website fairly ordinary? It’s nice. It … Continue reading Some thoughts about leaning into your weirdness
So you’ll see that I talk about helping people rediscover the creativity and joy in their business. But why do I care if you enjoy your work and get to use your creative mind? Because I know how hard it is when you don’t enjoy your work activities and you don’t get to use your … Continue reading Why do I care about helping you rediscover the creativity and joy in your business?
I do a lot of different things. And I’m currently wondering whether I’m just distracting myself with some of them, distracting myself from the main thing I need to be working on. There’s my freelance work, which I do less of these days. It doesn’t take much effort to promote. Just the time to deliver … Continue reading Am I distracting myself?
I’m feeling a need for space. Mental space and physical space. We have people in our house doing our bathroom at the moment, and the bathroom is right next to my office. It’s disrupted my routine, and it’s taken away my quiet space and quiet time. So I’m having lots of thoughts and ideas I … Continue reading A need for space
I’ve read a few things recently about living a creative life, and I’ve also been thinking about this topic in relation to curating my days so they have creative time in them. But what is a “creative life”? I think the definition of a creative life is a very individual thing, although there will inevitably … Continue reading Can you live a creative life when the world around you is not set up that way?