Ugh! to be in a job environment that’s uninspiring, draining, bland and meh… Not all of us are (or will ever be) lucky enough to work in a place that’s open to creativity, supportive of curiosity and willing to provide opportunities that push us to the limit and offer spaceContinue Reading
Striking the right balance between working on your personal growth and connecting through collaboration with others is the conundrum of the freelance creative. The wave of co-working spaces, crowd-sourcing projects, and crowdfunding ideas is ultimately pulling us toward community, social interaction, outside spaces away from our own, other people awayContinue Reading
Sometimes to make something better we need to break it apart. Creativity is no different. As we all know and feel, our creative flow of comes under constant fire. The people around us, the demand of adult life, responsibilities and to-do-lists from which we don’t seem to get an ounceContinue Reading
The Self-Healing Power of Writing. There are mindful activities that connect us with a sense of self, unattainable through anything else. Music, artistic expressions, dance, painting, drawing, writing. We do this naturally, almost unaware of the power they hold on our very human soul. As a writer, I’m drawn toContinue Reading
Half the year has gone by. The difficult time to self-assess has come round. If you suffer from multiple-ideas or never-ending-project syndrome, your list of ideas and projects has grown exponentially over the past months, yet check marks next to those ideas and projects are nowhere to be found. ManagingContinue Reading
Ok, so we’ve had the breakthrough idea, we’ve experienced the inspiring aha moment that propelled us toward a new project. That intense feeling, that rush of creativity is powerful and unique, but with the same intensity it comes, it goes. How can we capture some of its magic for longer?Continue Reading
We have ideas, original ideas, new perspectives, new takes on a variety of subjects. We grow attached to those ideas, we fear to share them with others, we fear they might be quicker to act. We fear the dark intentions lurking behind strangers’ eagerness to know what we know, whatContinue Reading
It happens…it happens once and it happens often. We just don’t feel creative or creative enough… we face a creative drought… No one is immune to this feeling. We may all fall into this creative funk. Especially at times of transition from one project to the next, when we areContinue Reading
Curiosity is what fuels the creative mind. When we were children, it was our curiosity what made us explore the world. Thanks to that curiosity we learned and grew at an exponential pace. Unfortunately, as we became more familiar with our environment, the more we knew about our world, theContinue Reading
