You set a time to do your creative work. When that time comes around you just can’t shake what is in your head, especially after a commute, your day job, or being wrapped up in something else. You are trapped and there are 100 excuses that now come to mind why you shouldn’t move forward…
Wherever plans are made, excuses gather and wait. That is a fact of life. If we don’t plan for their arrival….well, you know the rest. A fact of life or not, there is much we can do to avoid, weaken, or question some of our own most powerful excuses. That can change everything, letting you…
This is a Talking Typewriter Production – Which means this blog post has also been turned into a video. So…you can read this post below or you may watch the video version at You Tube, above. It’s the same stuff. It’s your choice. Welcome to the creative road. Taking the first steps down the creative…
Jerry Seinfeld gets credit for a simple tool. The story goes something like this: Jerry had reached a level of fame and a new comic went up to Jerry and asked him for any secrets Seinfeld knew for getting better as a comic. “Don’t break the chain,” he answered. The chain he was speaking of…
Since the 1990s, Julia Cameron has dominated the bookshelves, bookstores, and church basements with her “The Artist Way” series of writings. At the center of each work is Cameron’s two regular exercises for Creatives—the artist date and morning pages. The artist date is not a date with an artist, though that would be good too,…
You are being bombarded with all sorts of things that have little direct relationship to your Creative life, right? You really get knocked off your path when things come along. Sound familiar? We previously defined some of these forces as distractions, dips, and dives. Today we go beyond definitions to actual practices for bouncing back…