10 Ways Life Zaps Creativity
Creativity Killers! 1.Education, Schooling & Training - When we start school children are all artists and inventors! They are inquisitive, love to learn, create and explore. Their imaginations are limitless and they happily make sense of their world by playing games, role-playing, inventing and creating. Too soon children have to work to time-scales and are pressured to find the “right” answers. They have restricted choices, are …
Read MoreMelancholy and Madness
Black, cruel harsh world Defiantly stares back at me Knowing my in escapable fate a jinx, a fix, a hoax My rigged destiny perplexes me whilst the depths of my minds are subdued and forgetting Too anxious, too tired, too complex I am a shadow of my former self Even now as my words flow I rattle like a pebble …
Read MoreYou to Me
All my life I had been at sea Adrift,lost and mystified Cast out amongst the sodden driftwood Entangled and caught up like seaweed Before you came nothing seemed to make sense A restless soul with no home No place in this world to call my own Only a void of senseless longing Of hoping A lack of love and belonging …
Read MoreThe Loss of Creativity
As I discussed in my previous blog, our creativity is stifled from a very early age. By the time we reach adulthood our ability to think creatively has virtutally been obliterated. Yesterday I thought about my own life and began to list all the things that have hindered my own creativity. When I was a child I was incredibly imaginative and inventive. …
Read MoreNature or Nuture?
“Creativity often begins with a dumb question” There are so many things in life that zap our creativity. I believe there is no doubt that we are all naturally born to express ourselves creatively and create. I think everyone, regardless of who they are are born creative, it’s just some how along the way it’s knocked out of you. You only have …
Read MoreCreative… me?
At the moment I just don’t feel creative. My leg hurts, I can’t concentrate on any one thing for a great period of time and I don’t feel I’ve got anything interesting to say. This is not to say I’m not a creative person, I am. My ability to be creative ebbs and flows, depending on my circumstances, confidence and …
Read MoreThe Beginnings of Creativity
I actually started blogging on this website over a year ago. It started it’s life as “Career Solutions”. My aim was to launch myself as a Careers’ Coach and the hope was that the website would attract potential clients. All the blogs that I wrote were focused around careers, jobs and coaching. I found that I enjoyed writing the blogs, but was …
Read MoreIllusion & Light
A Mirror, a Light, a Life. A reflection, a true picture Your reality? What do you see? A treasure, a love, a memory Cracked beyond description Tiny shards of broken glass Hiding behind bulbous masks Which is it? The past, the present, the future? Lost faces, faded images Distortions on top of contortions So clearly undefinded, with no sincerity Fuzzy …
Read MoreWhat is madness?
When a life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness? To surrender dreams – this may be madness. To seek treasure where there is only trash. Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be. Dale Wasserman
Read MoreWhat Are We Afraid Of?
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, Our deepest fear is that we are way powerful, beyond measure. It’s our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves: Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of the universe. Your playing small …
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