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Ignite and sustain your creativity • Identify and realize your heart’s true dreams • Live a life of passion, purpose and deep play
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The One Thing You Need for a Prolific Creative Life
Is there one thing that makes the difference between a happy, prolific creative life and a frustrating one filled with fits and starts? In this post, I answer this and how it can change your whole life, not just your creativity. About a week ago, I went to a wonderful...
Celebrating the Spring Equinox
Today is the Spring Equinox or Vernal Equinox, the turning point to the season of Springtime in the Northern Hemisphere. The Spring equinox turns us to new beginnings, new shoots coming up out of the earth, new budding things. Life begins anew. It is a time of...
Seeking Your Heart’s Guidance
A simple but powerful exercise to help you hear your heart's guidance. Your heart is here to guide you to your best life. Not the easiest, but the best. The fullest expression of you. The richest, most beautiful, rewarding life. Your heart has answers your mind could...
Happy Year of the Earth Dog!
This past week we had a new moon (and partial solar eclipse) that ushered in the Chinese new year. We have departed the year of the fire rooster (or phoenix) and entered the year of the earth dog. What does this mean for us? Justice, Truth and Integrity Astrologer...
Instead of Big Goals, Try Small Experiments
If you tend to start big dreams, ambitious goals or new projects and resolutions and then peter out, here’s something to try that can be a whole lot more fun and fulfilling. I’m a big dreamer. I love working and playing towards grand visions and big dreams for my...
We Need the Voices of All the Artists
“We need the voices of all the poets,” Robert Duncan wrote. This has long been a credo of mine. Yet, I have to remind myself of it. Especially when I’m feeling “not good enough” as a poet. At times like those, I can start to feel “What’s the use? Who needs my poems...
Get Back On The Horse: Dealing with Setbacks on the Artistic Path
I “finished” a collection of my poems last summer after eight years of working on it, off and on, most recently with the help of professional editors. At that point I committed to sending it to four publication contests or open reading periods a month until I find a...
Dreaming Your Year: A Recipe for Soulful Living
At the start of each year, I speak about tuning into the dreaming of the year ahead, dreaming your year from heart and soul. Why? So that you can co-create an inspired, soulful, enriching trip around the sun. Not just blown about by the winds of habit and...
How to Access the Power of Love to Realize Your Dreams
In this post, I share with you how to access the deepest power in the universe, the power of love, so that you can draw upon this limitless power to help you realize your dreams. This is the fourth post in a series on Enthusiasm vs. Willpower in reaching your heart's...
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