Creative Sparks
Creative Sparks provides tools, guidance and soul inspiration about once a week to:
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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Do Exactly (and Only) What You Want
In this post, I give you radical permission to do what you want! How will that help you reach your big life dreams? Read on! I share with you about the Inner Taskmaster and the Inner Rebel and how they both sabotage your dreams. I start the conversation about two...
Create An Inspired Year From Heart Not From Should
Just two days left in this year before we enter the new! Will you take time to lay the foundation for an inspired year ahead? To support you in this, I feel moved to send you this from the archives: My post on Harvesting the Old, Dreaming the New. In it, I share my...
The Shining Bridge to Reach Your Dreams
Here is what I have discovered. There is a shining bridge between willpower and enthusiasm: Commitment. Commitment is a tool we all need in order to realize big dreams, visions and aspirations for ourselves and our world. Yet, commitment, is often misunderstood. In...
Enthusiasm vs. Willpower: Surprising New Discoveries
You have a dream to write, paint, dance, sing, build a house, start a business, travel the world. Do you use willpower to get you there, or do you rely on the energy of enthusiasm to realize your dreams? Perhaps you think enthusiasm is shallow and limited, comes and...
Gifts of Gratitude
This Thursday in the United States is Thanksgiving Day. Wherever you are in the world, every day is a good day to practice gratitude and appreciation. Why Gratitude? Gratitude is the gateway to true abundance of all kinds. Gratitude is a magic power that invites...
How do I find my authentic voice?
How do I find my most authentic voice? Many writers and artists ask this question. Yet, perhaps there really isn't just one voice. Questions of voice trouble writers and artists throughout their creative lives, as each creative project may ask for a new voice, a new...
My Deep Why
Last week I sent you a beautiful, inspiring, 10-minute exercise to discover your "deep why," what you are here on earth for, what you're all about. This process is a way to tap your deep heart-knowing of what lights you up, inspires and moves you, what matters deeply...
Why the Heck Am I Here?
In this post, I share a fun and inspiring practice to help you discover your "life purpose" by tapping into your own deep wisdom and intuitive knowing. That way, you can live in alignment with that which brings you deepest meaning, joy and fulfillment in your life....
Scenes from the Past: A Creativity Prompt
In my post last week, I shared with you how to get inspiration and training by copying the masters of your art form and translating what you learn to your own unique style. If you missed that, click here for Great Artists Steal or How to Learn from the Masters. This...
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