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Photo courtesy of SXC. Today we begin a new series of occasional posts that explore where and how great creative ideas are born. We start with the most basic building block of idea-making: vision, which can be more broadly interpreted to refer to two specific abilities: 1) The ability to observe (s
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Photo courtesy offe10 via SXC. How to Deal With Copycats and Idea Thieves Charlie Gilkey of Productive Flourishing blog provides a great set of guidelines for those who worry about copycats ripping off their best ideas. My favorite tip concerns increasing one’s mastery to leave impostors in th
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Photo courtesy SXC. Arts & Healing Network – AHN Awards Every year the Arts and Healing Network honors healing artists who are truly making a difference in the world. In 2011, the organization gave away three awards of $4,000 each. The recipients were Ricky Lee Gordon, Naomi Natale, and Sa
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Image courtesy SXC. Oh, how I love the first few weeks of January – that time of boundless optimism and dreaming big. The hard part is holding onto that positive energy when it’s the middle of July and you realize your plan to achieve great things got derailed in late March. Here are 12
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Photo courtesy SXC. Today I present the second in a series of audio meditations based upon the Creative Person’s Guide to Focus blog series I posted last winter. This meditation is based upon the post I did on the importance of unplugging from digital tools and toys in order to aid concentrati
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Photo by Marina Nisi courtesy of SXC. The Most Artistic Cities in America | The Atlantic Cities An interesting slideshow and survey crafted by Richard Florida, senior editor at The Atlantic and Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Man
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Photo courtesy of SXC. It’s possible that I love posting lists of potential “creative” holiday presents even more than I love receiving gifts. It’s not that I am some sort of consumerist shopaholic – to the contrary, I get jazzed about Christmas giving in large part bec
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Today I share a conversation I conducted by email with writer, photographer and creative teacher Susannah Conway, who lives in the United Kingdom. She has gone through what many of us would consider the worst experience of our lives – the sudden death of our beloved – and emerged from it
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Photo courtesy of SXC. How Gender Roles Crush Creativity Terri Giuliano Long of Creative Flux blog has written an excellent and impassioned assertion of the right of children and their parents to engage in activities outside of societally prescribed gender roles. She writes, Circumscribed gender ro
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Photo courtesy Alex Bramwell via SXC. Today I offer what I hope is the first of many audio programs to facilitate greater creative success. This first program guides you through setting an intention, then doing a guided visualization related to single-tasking – which I define as doing one thin
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