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Creative Living: Monday Motivator

Creative Living: Monday Motivator

Your Monday Motivator: What Are You Creating This Week?

May 29, 2017

This week’s Monday Motivator is coming to you a day late because of the UK and US’s holiday weekend. If you were lucky enough to have some time off, I hope you thoroughly enjoyed it! So what are you creating this week? Creative writing wise, I’m working on a book and workbook for writers, How Authors Create Money and Meaning. One chapter from that book is called “Sell Yourself Without Selling Your Soul” and I’m also creating an audio presentation based on it, for Indie Author Fringe on Saturday. The Fringe is my big Creative Publishing task this week. With Jay Artale and…

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Your Monday Motivator: Creativist Club Special Launch Offer

May 22, 2017

What are you creating this week? For me, the Creativist Club is still taking lots of attention, as our first members find their way around. If you’d like to join, we’re now ready to take you. Better than that, I’m delighted to announce a special launch day offer for my reader members and subscribers only. If you join today or tomorrow, 22nd or 23rd of May, at Vision level (a Seven-week program, cost £49) you will get an upgrade to Making Level, a 21-week program, which has a value of £99. You can find out more about the club levels…

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Your Monday Motivator: The Creativist Club

May 15, 2017

What are you creating this week? I’ve been putting the finishing touches to the Creativist Club. We are still very much in beta but Sondra and I are there, welcoming a few new members in, and helping them to frame their intentions, set timelines and workflows. And Tuhin is working hard on adjusting the tech to our needs. This week, we’ll be sorting the final snags and watching the club take shape under this first tiny intake of members. What about you? What are you making of yourself this week? Each Monday I send a reminder email to creatives and creativists…

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Your Monday Motivator: The Creativist Club is Open

May 8, 2017

What are you creating this week? For me, it’s all about the Creativist Club and I’m pleased to declare that, if not yet officially open to all, we are now admitting our first intake of followers and friends. What about you? What are you making of yourself this week? Each Monday I send a reminder email to creatives and creativists around the world. The pull of the outer, conventional world is strong, with ever more distractions being put our way, so we all need reminding about how necessary it is to turn inwards, and focus on creating what we most truly want. Which…

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Your Monday Motivator: Setting Your Core Intention

April 10, 2017

The theme of this week’s Monday motivator mail is “Setting Your Core Intention” Each week I send a Monday mail as a reminder to creatives and creativists. The pull of the outer,  conventional world is strong, with ever more distractions, so we all need reminding to turn inwards, and focus on what we most truly want. This is a weekly reminder to do just that. I share what I’m making this week and tips, tools and techniques from the Go Creative! books to motivate and inspire you, together with the latest episode of the Go Creative! Show, a free-writing prompt around our theme…

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Monday Motivator: What Are You Creating This Week?

February 20, 2017

Download your weekly Go Creative Maps here Scroll down to find your weekly creative work map, together with creative rest and creative play maps too. This week I’m on the finishing stretch for How To Create Anything which is going to my new editor at the end of the month. I’ll also be creating some fun time in my favorite American city, San Francisco. The conference is now over and it’s time for a day or two’s relaxation. (Here’s a post about why I just love this city) I’m hooking up with Roving Jay too. She’s in LA these months and has travelled up to SF so…

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Your Monday Motivator: Collaboration For Creative Success

November 28, 2016

The theme of this week’s Monday motivator mailout is Collaboration For Creative Success. Each week I send a Monday mail as a reminder to creatives and creativists. The pull of the outer and conventional world is strong, so we all need reminding to focus on what we most want to create. This weekly reminder is full of tips and techniques to motivate and inspire you – and offers simple creative maps and tools to help you prioritize what’s most important to you this week. I’ll also bring news about what I’m creating myself right now, offer a free-writing prompt around our…

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Your Monday Motivator: Don’t Think, Just Do!

November 14, 2016

The theme of this week’s Monday motivator mailout is “Don’t Think, Just Do!” Each week I send a Monday mail as a reminder to creatives and creativists. The pull of the outer and conventional world is strong, so we all need reminding to focus on what we most want to create. This weekly reminder is full of tips and techniques to motivate and inspire you – and offers simple creative maps and tools to help you prioritize what’s most important to you this week. I’ll also bring news about what I’m creating myself right now, offer a free-writing prompt around our theme…

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Your Monday Motivator: Forming Good Creative Habits

October 17, 2016

The theme of this week’s Monday motivator mailout is the importance of forming good creative habits. Each week I send a Monday mail as a reminder to creatives and creativists. The pull of the outer and conventional world is strong, so we all need reminding to focus on what we most want to create. This weekly reminder is full of tips and techniques to motivate and inspire you — and offers simple creative maps and tools to help you prioritize what’s most important to you this week. I’ll also bring news about what I’m creating myself right now, offer a free-writing prompt around our theme of the week, and…

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Our Wound Is our Way

May 6, 2010

Continuing our A-Z of Creative Intelligence, W is for wounds. The psychic ones, cut in childhood, from which all the others seep.
This is a long post, so you may want to get a cup of coffee and relax over reading it. I know, I know you’re very busy. Nothing like the word ‘wound’ to get us remembering all the things we have to do… Or that we need a drink… Or a visit to the online casino.

But anyone who is seriously engaged in creating anything needs an understanding of psychological and emotional wounds and how they operate.

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