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…