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Monthly Archives: July 2009

Creativity Prompt | 158

State the facts. ~~~ Daily Creativity Prompts deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process. See Grace Kerina’s Creativity Prompts Compendium for more tools to spark your genius. Related reading: Creativity Prompt | 122 ~ Pep Talk | Think

Successfully Sensitive | Dolly Hopkins

Creative Architect As a Creative Architect, Dolly Hopkins “changes the landscape through celebration.” She consults with and advises people and organizations all over the world. Since she’s based in Vancouver, where I live, I’ve participated in many of the awe-inspiring community events she’s helped to create. Long before I met Dolly in person, I was […]

Creativity Prompt | 157

Who’s in your way? Go around. ~~~ Daily Creativity Prompts deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process. See Grace Kerina’s Creativity Prompts Compendium for more tools to spark your genius. Related reading: Creativity Prompt | 66 ~ Book | Fitting in is Overrated

Creativity Prompt | 156

Remove everything that’s fake. ~~~ Daily Creativity Prompts deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process. See Grace Kerina’s Creativity Prompts Compendium for more tools to spark your genius. Related reading: Creativity Prompt | 104 ~ Dare to Be Vulnerable

Pep Talk | Back Away

There, now. You’ve poked the thing with a stick and its haunches are bunching to prepare for a pounce in your direction. You opened your mouth before your brain had a chance to calm down and everyone at the table is staring at you with open mouths, shocked at your immature outburst. Now’s the time […]

Creativity Prompt | 155

What course of action would bring the most relief? How soon can you do it? ~~~ Daily Creativity Prompts deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process. See Grace Kerina’s Creativity Prompts Compendium for more tools to spark your genius. Related reading: Creativity Prompt | 138 ~ Self-Care Basics

Book | A Pattern Language

Surroundings and atmosphere play a big role in the lives of sensitive people. Small factors make big differences. Christopher Alexander and his co-authors created a book I consider to be a bible for the sensitive soul in search of peaceful, nourishing surroundings. A Pattern Language, published in 1977, is volume two of a three-volume set […]

Creativity Prompt | 154

Scratch the surface. Study what’s beneath. ~~~ Daily Creativity Prompts deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process. See Grace Kerina’s Creativity Prompts Compendium for more tools to spark your genius. Related reading: Creativity Prompt | 17 ~ Book | The Creative Entrepreneur

Creativity Prompt | 153

What decision could have the most positive impact? ~~~ Daily Creativity Prompts deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process. See Grace Kerina’s Creativity Prompts Compendium for more tools to spark your genius. Related reading: Creativity Prompt | 8 ~ The Benevolent Love Bomb

Creativity Prompt | 152

Break a rule. ~~~ Daily Creativity Prompts deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process. See Grace Kerina’s Creativity Prompts Compendium for more tools to spark your genius. Related reading: Creativity Prompt | 146 ~ Blind Dates Grow Up

Creativity Prompt | 151

What if you had a clean slate? ~~~ Daily Creativity Prompts deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process. See Grace Kerina’s Creativity Prompts Compendium for more tools to spark your genius. Related reading: Creativity Prompt | 61 ~ The Reset Button

Successfully Sensitive | Richard Sharpe

British Officer in the Napoleonic War Richard Sharpe, as played by Sean Bean in the British TV series based on Bernard Cornwell’s novels, may seem an odd choice for a Successfully Sensitive interview. He is, after all, a soldier and a fictional character. Nevertheless, he embodies many qualities I want to embody. Through watching the […]

Creativity Prompt | 150

Praise each element separately. ~~~ Daily Creativity Prompts deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process. See Grace Kerina’s Creativity Prompts Compendium for more tools to spark your genius. Related reading: Creativity Prompt | 70 ~ Ode to the Curiously Mundane Office

Style Statement Hero

Thanks to the Style Statement blog for posting an article I wrote called “Style Statement Hero.”

Creativity Prompt | 149

Whose approval do you seek? ~~~ Daily Creativity Prompts deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process. See Grace Kerina’s Creativity Prompts Compendium for more tools to spark your genius. Related reading: Creativity Prompt | 32 ~ Pep Talk | Oh, Never Mind