1. Realize that work, pain and frustration are not a curse, though our attitudes can be. 2. Wear yellow. 3. Compliment liberally, criticize minimally. (Tweet this positivity!) 4. For every negative thing that’s said to you by the “Debby Downer” types, immediately turn it around to the positive. DD: Oh well. Looks like rain today!… Continue reading How to Not Complain: 11 Tips for Staying Positive
Category: creative exercises
6.5 Ideas For You to Steal
Steal these ideas…consider them yours. But before I share these multi-million dollar (or these “fall-flat-on-your-face-and-don’t-tell-anyone-you-got-the-idea-from-me”) ideas, here’s why I’m sharing… I have a list of too many and by sharing them, I’ve narrowed down my list. So thank you. I need to see if I’ve done anything on my ‘ideas’ list. Sharing is better than hoarding.… Continue reading 6.5 Ideas For You to Steal
The Recipe for Creating Interesting Characters
A dash of happiness and joy blended with a half-cup of artsy-fartsy melancholy… An insatiable urge to create something new kneaded into the dough of apathy and procrastination… A hunger for sharing and creating beautiful art with the world chopped up and sprinkled into a hermit-esque lifestyle… Happy/sad + Hungry/full + Content/restless = An Interesting Artist Artists are a… Continue reading The Recipe for Creating Interesting Characters
Make Lists
Lists are powerful. Lists remind us of what’s important. Lists help us focus on the task at hand. Lists help us celebrate accomplishments. Recently, I combed through a journal I wrote in October of 1997 and stumbled across a list of eighty people and things I was thankful for. Reading this list early in… Continue reading Make Lists
Creative Passion: The Antonym of Apathy
[box options]Earlier Letters: Read these letters (here’s Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, and Day 4 if you need to backtrack) as if you wrote them. You are the author. You wrote what you are about to read. You wrote it with your life. Sounds a bit dramatic, eh? It kinda is. Live accordingly.[/box] Dear Me,… Continue reading Creative Passion: The Antonym of Apathy
Why Your Dreams Die
Dear Me, Hey you! How ya doing? In Day 1 you read a letter you wrote and then ripped the lie apart that you had a crappy life and nothing to offer. In Day 2, you wrote another letter and figured out just when you stopped working for yourself instead of just working for others.… Continue reading Why Your Dreams Die
The Campaign for Real Life
[box options]You’re in for a treat today… from the UK! Today’s post is a guest post by Ayd Instone. Ayd is an international speaker, philosopher and entertainer on the subject of creativity. He’s the author of a number of books and writes regularly on his blog ‘Ding!’ When you’re done reading his post, head on… Continue reading The Campaign for Real Life
How to Write Worthless Content
Writing worthless content is all the rage. Here’s some tips! 1. Your opening sentence must elicit boredom. You might try a sentence like this: “This blog post is about the time I found a rock in my shoe.” Or…
Slow is the New Fast
Slower. Slowing down. Taking a moment to be silent. And still. Take thirty seconds to be silent. (30 second pause. . .) What did you hear? I hear my breath, rising and falling. I hear a few early morning chirps outside my window. A slight hum of cars off in the distance.
Childhood Playtime for Creativity
What did you love to do as a child? Who did you play with? How did you play? Where did you play best? When did playtime stop? As I recall my own childhood playtime: