If there is one area in which a Stuck Creative should consider staying stuck it is keeping on, keeping on. We have heard the stories of people going on in the face of rejection and they are good teaching tales we should remember and turn to when facing our own rejections. Here are examples of…
From Distracted Mind to Creative Mind
Eric Maisel on getting a grip on our “monkey mind” so that we can handle distractions and diversions. Quiet monkey. Loud creativity. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpEBWU3Z9H0&hl=en_US&fs=1&]
Casual or Committed Creative? Which are you?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The big decision you have to make is: Do you want to be a Casual Creative or a Committed Creative? Being either is fine but the choice needs to be made. A Casual Creative is the person who enjoys creativity and creative things such as recent and obscure movies, new authors,…
Five Minutes of Creative Work…Are You Serious?
Although I discussed the issue of grabbing time where you find it before, I’ve got to talk about it one more time. One of the first principles I teach in group and individual creativity coaching is that we can’t wait for large swaths of time to begin our projects. This is true of everyone with…
Why Does This Have to Be So Hard?
Creating and sustaining a creative life is tough for two major reasons. First, it requires daily consciousness of what the heck you are doing, where you want to go, and focus on what to do next. This feels so different than the other parts of our life that require no brains. Think of how it…
Don’t Be Afraid To Make A Mess
Here, Eric Maisel, the father of creativity coaching, reminds us that we must mess our way to success. . [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ShSVdCl7pY&hl=en_US&fs=1&] See Eric Maisel’s books in The Stuck Creative store.
A Three Pipe Problem
“It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won’t speak to me for fifty minutes.” – Sherlock Holmes Holmes had his ritual for digging into difficult problems caused by the London criminal element. Sit in one’s thinking chair, pull out the pipe, load it up, smoke, and tell Watson to shut…
A New Year’s New Space – Shape up your creative space
Step back and look at your creative space. Open your eyes and take a fresh look. See it from new angles. Look past what you already know (it’s cluttered) and look for fresh information. What do you need in your creative space this new year to move you deeper and forward in your work? How…
Inquiry: Why Is My Work A Gift?
This time of the year we are flooded with the notion of gifts and gift giving. That makes it a perfect time to do an inquiry. An inquiry is a question that a coaching client kicks around for awhile to learn more about themselves and their work. Kick the questions: Why is my work a…
Hello Inner Critic, Nice to Meet Ya
Thirty years of subpersonality theory and therapy has taught us one thing: you have got to know your various sides if you really want to flourish. This is even more true for the big kahunas that keep us blocked. The biggest of the kahunas is the Inner Critic. Inner Critic Speaking “Don’t”, “can’t”, “That’s just…
Talent Is Overrated
Geoff Colvin helps build the case that practice, practice, practice is the ticket rather than the media view that people accomplish masterful things through some sort of magic, not the hard realities of practice. Movies and television convey a sense that talent is a gift and all someone with talent has to do is show…
Forgiveness on the Journey to Unstuckness
On the Journey to Unstuckness, it is necessary to bring a few partners along, sort of our own Wizard of Oz ensemble of inner characters. One character we must have at our side is a personification of forgiveness. We need to forgive our own lack of living up to our potential. As a Creative we…
Don’t Wait for Large Swaths of Time
We over estimate the need for large swaths of free time to work on our projects and we under estimate how much we can get done in small, but numerous chunks of time. We sit in inactivity, waiting for the promise of a week, a month, a year of free time to finally get us into a…
Finding The Stuck Creative on Meetup – D.C. Area
For the Washington, D.C. The Stuck Creative Support Group, learn more at: http://www.meetup.com/The-Stuck-Creative/
Hello Washington, D.C. – Support Group Launches
November 2009 NEW Support Group THE STUCK CREATIVE Self Coaching to Get That Book, Painting, Screenplay, Idea, Invention or Any Other Project Moving Afraid to start on a project? Got a project shoved away in the drawer and you can’t pick it up again? Don’t have a project but know you want to do more…