Fiction is the domain of novels and screenplays, but it has a way of slipping into other creative pursuits, like planning entrepreneurial endeavors and evaluating our businesses, as well as planning and evaluating our lives. The reason for this potential slippage—which can cause us to put less than solidly-factual and rational foundations under what we […]
Morgan James’s new release, Trump Your Life: 25 Life Lessons from the Ups and Downs of The 45th President of the United States by Dr. Keith Ablow and Christian Josi, provides the tools to help people transform their relationships, revolutionize their approach to work, achieve the success they have dreamt of, or revitalize their family, […]
There are many reasons to create what your soul calls upon you to create—whether that be a painting, a poem, a blog, or a business. All of these are works of art. Whichever one you create is a form of SELF-expression. And true self-expression is a gift not only to the creator, but to all […]
So You Had Better Become the Person You Were Always Meant to Be In order to become the most powerful creative force you can be in the world, you will need to know who you truly are. What does this mean? It means you will need to look into yourself, at the deepest levels, to […]
The pandemic we face is bringing catastrophic pain to millions of people in our nation and around the world. America has lost more lives than we lost in the Vietnam War. We face profound economic consequences. Thinking of creativity in this context may seem counterintuitive, but painters and poets and philosophers and writers and film […]
Robert Pirsig, who wrote the book Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, wrote an Afterword to the book that is as powerful as the rest of it. One of the reasons is that he makes it clear why it never makes sense to quit when pursuing one’s creative passion. Consider this: Pirsig writes that […]
How the Creative Spirit Heals You When you jump-start your creativity, you jump-start many elements of your life. That’s why devoting time and effort to your creative pursuits can pay untold dividends beyond what may come from your work product, terms of financial rewards or acclaim or even satisfaction. It yields gifts in many realms […]
Creators being seized by irresistible impulses to generate manuscripts, or new entrepreneurial ventures, or new directions in which to lead existing businesses isn’t actually the way that creative efforts usually unfold. Very often, the most powerful elements of worthy creative pursuits can be coaxed to the surface by questions. Those questions then begin a process […]
I know the gravity of the pandemic we are facing. I think all of us do. And I know how tempting it would be to yield to anxiety and spend most of the day watching a 24-hour news channel or obsessively Googling “Coronavirus” or “Covid19.” And, yet, it has occurred to me that the social distancing […]
The Coronavirus is impacting us and the world in ways none of us have experienced or witnessed in our lifetimes. Just a few months ago, witnessing hand sanitizer and masks becoming precious items, grappling with the specter of rationing of health care resources and keeping one another safe by keeping our distance were confined to […]