More than a year ago I wrote an article on writing out conversations between myself and the wiser part of me – “Conversations Between Me and U.” The tool of having dialogues with myself has been so useful, and in such surprising ways, that I want to tell you how it’s evolved. While exploring Lora […]
What do you allow and what do you suppress in the privacy of your own mind? Does the habit of limiting and restricting input – light, sound, chaos, profusions, and multiplicities – extend to keeping your own thoughts at bay? We are unobserved inside our own minds. What if, in the pure privacy of your […]
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
The Original Deck Years ago, I made a deck of creativity prompt cards for myself – 75 prompts that propelled me into a more expansive space for finding solutions. I formatted them in Excel, printed them on card stock, and cut them out by hand. Months later, I put them to the test. I wanted […]
Thursday, October 29, 2009
We think we can’t see. We think we are blind. We think we are looking at something tiny and limiting and there’s nothing there. But the world is chock full of tricks. The eye, the mind, the spirit, expand and contract depending on how we look and where we look and what we want to […]
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
The process of writing is a tool. It serves us, not the other way around. There’s something wrong when struggling with the writing process keeps people’s marvellous thoughts and much-needed wisdom from reaching the rest of us. To make the writing process easier, to shift the focus from how to write to what to say, […]
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
About six months ago, on a whim, I explored every single program on my computer, many of which had been pre-installed. When I stumbled across Microsoft OneNote I knew I’d finally found an organizing program that works the way my brain does. Hopefully, this screenshot image provides enough of a sense of the format to […]
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
What complex process have you done so many times you’re utterly confident about your ability to pull it off? Can you take a vegetable garden from new ground to dinner table? Bathe a reluctant, grumpy, bedridden patient? Turn a box of financial data into a ship-shape tax form? Playing a violin concerto? For me, it’s […]
Whew! After more than 200 Daily Creativity Prompts, I’m going to pause and reflect. Don’t stop using the prompts just because there aren’t more being added. You can access them anytime, whenever you need a poke in the creativity muscle, via the blog sidebar’s Daily Creativity Prompts category link in the blog’s sidebar. You can […]
What actor would play you in the movie version of this project’s life? Why? ~~~ 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 | 60 ~ Talent Development Resources
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Find a tutor. ~~~ 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 | 153 ~ Oops! Wrong Limb
