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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New Avenues for Income as an Artist
This is part II of the series on Making a Living as an Artist, in which I share my trials and tribulations and triumphs on the road. If you missed part I, you can read it here. (That's my desk in the photo.) I’ve been working for the past few years to put my art...
Making a Living as an Artist, Part I
This is part I in a series on Making a Living as an Artist. In which I explore what it means to be an artist-entrepreneur and what my own stumbling blocks are with that.
The Great Mistake That Keeps You From Your Dreams
One of the greatest mistakes artists and dreamers make that keeps us from following our dreams is all or nothing thinking. We tell ourselves: “I have to leave my family, quit my job, move to another part of the country” or take other radical actions in order to pursue...
Are Artists Born or Made?
The great creativity debate: Everyone is creative. Creativity is reserved for the special few. Which is it? And what does it mean for us?
Getting Unstuck
How To Free Yourself to Create the Life (and World) Your Heart Dreams Of — A completely FREE, interactive webinar If… You want more from life, more fulfillment, passion, creativity, connection, joy. You keep pushing it down, putting it off, second-guessing yourself or...
On Shattered Dreams and Keeping On
I write to you often about following the dreams and desires of your heart and soul. I want you to know that I know how painful and hard
that can be. I know that what I am asking of you is no small thing.
I know about failure and loss, shattered dreams and disappointment. I also know the path is full of growth and grace.
To Dream or To Plan? Which Should You Do?
“I don’t dream, I make plans.” People sometimes says this to me, but they don’t understand the role of dreams in our lives, and what we need to do first.
You Can’t Always Get What You Want, But. . .
Following your dreams is something you are called to do. Each of us is called to follow our heart's dreams. Yet following your dreams is often approached in a totally wrong-headed way. A way that produces a great deal of suffering. Your dreams are here to lead you on...
Your Breakthrough Dream Part II
In my last post, I shared with you the powerful tool of the Breakthrough Dream as a way of co-creating the life your heart desires. If you missed that post, click here to read it first. Today, we continue with part II.In this post we explore how to discover your...
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