Creativity + Persistence = Victory

Oftentimes, mistakes and bad outcomes can be fixed, but only if we act FAST. When all seems lost, and I know sometimes the situations we often find ourselves in seem hopeless, 90+% of the time it is not hopeless. But 90% of the people quit.

Motivated by Your Creative Talents

In what ways do you use your creative talents? God has gifted all of His creation with special skills and talents. Not one person is left without some degree of creativity to share with others. Are you using your talents and gifts to serve others with?

Heal Emotional Difficulties With Your Imagination, Realize Your Own Creative Self and Fly!

I'm ready! If I be a mermaid or a fairy I will become a blessing to my inner child. I try - I do, to rise up past the moan of disappointments, they are not my own.

Creativity and Me - from Childhood Imagining, to Going Where my Father could not Go - to an Audience

All my life, creativity has played an enormous part - as a child I imagined my way through story after story, and also wrote stories of my own. I was 12 when I wrote my first film script. I imagined everything would be easy. Like so many creative people, I haven't had it easy. Many satisfactions. But the audience has kept being just around the corner - and still I've kept trying, and not just for myself but for so many of us.

Enjoying the Creative Journey: Are Your Dreams Already Around You?

Sometimes, we can have our sights so firmly set on our goals in the long term future that we overlook what we’re currently experiencing, and all the situations, opportunities and potential happiness that we’re actually right in the midst of. So think about your own creative life. What parts of your life right now actually are much better than you realise, or give yourself credit for achieving? How are your dreams already amongst you?

Thinking Outside of the Box

It would be wise to be aware that we benefit from thinking outside the box of habit. This is easier said than done. It takes time to create a habit and if the habit has been beneficial to you, it will take time to modify it to make it better. We often resist change but it has been said that the only thing constant in life is change. So it would make sense that we not only deal with change but that we embrace it.

Part II - Do Visualizations Really Work?

Using an example from Part I on the visualization series, this describes in 3 steps how I used the visualization process to make one of my dreams come true.

Overcoming Creative Resistance: The Lesson of the Dragon Slayer

Something all of us who are creative have in common is experiencing internal resistance to our creativity or creative flow. Time and time again we try to eliminate the dragons - those negative thoughts and doubts of resistance - from our minds, which usually results in much anguished and exhausting mental gymnastics and leaves us slumped defeated, and more often than not giving up on our creative efforts altogether. But, there is hope. You see we don’t have to try to be dragon slayers, there is another way...

Magick – Creating a New World

There are a great many magickal traditions practiced today and they all share several common elements. The primary element of a magickal tradition is the importance of spiritual growth and development. From that point all else follows and nothing can be achieved without it. Magick is a process whereby we may direct the world with our will to manifest whatever we wish for. Research in quantum physics shows that we may directly influence the world we live in through our thoughts and beliefs. Magick embodies this principle and helps us to realize it so that we may use our will to re-create the world around us.

Helping Children To Love Writing, Give Them The Confidence To Write - Two Quick Exercises To Do Now

This one is a challenging exercise, and one for you to do as well when working with children who are reluctant to write.

Kickstart YOUR Creativity - 3 Powerful Tips to Banish Writer's Block

Every kind of writing requires creativity: technical writing, commercial or business writing, web content writing, blogging, emails to friends, thank you notes to great-aunt Nattie. Here's how to tap into your creativity (which is always available) and successfully write anything you want!

Back to the Future Movie Shows how to Connect Your Flux Capacitor & Find Your Jiggawat Jackpot

Feeling Tired? Need some plutonium to kickstart your creative energy? How about a bullet proof vest to protect you from that bullet from the past? Read this article and learn what The Movie Back to the Future can teach you about the power of love.

How Children Learn And What You Can Do To Help Them

“What? How many of you have climbed into a cardboard box and pushed yourself off at the top of the stairs.” Alarmingly 90% of the hands in the class go up. “Are you serious?” 30 nodding heads.

Increase Creativity: Understand the Little Words That Make The Biggest Difference to Your Creativity

Sometimes a simple single word and it’s connected ideas and associations can be so powerful, and make such a difference in our creative lives. Here are some that can be the most significant. What do they each mean to you?

Prevent Brilliant Ideas From Fizzling Between Your Brain and Your Notebook

Ever have a fantastic, brilliant unbelievably clever stroke of genius only to find it falling flat the second you told someone about it? Find out why and how to prevent it.