Ignite Your Creative Soul!

A Guide To Igniting (Or Re-igniting!) Your Creative Soul Through Life’s Simple, Guiding Principles Epiphanies have their own timeline, crashing into our lives on their own, bold terms. Sometimes they jolt us awake in the middle of the night, sometimes they shake us up hard while we’re strolling down the canned food aisle. Mine showed up as I stared into my computer screen one Sunday morning, my mind a complete blank. My creativity had come to a standstill, the words that us

A Guide To Igniting or Re-igniting Your Creative Soul Through Life’s Simple, Guiding Principles Definition of Hope: noun: a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen. feeling of trust. Verb: want something to happen or be the case. When creative juices slow to a trickle or stop, we’re presented with a choice: we can give up in frustration OR we can take the opportunity to self-reflect. Contrary to what I’d always thought, this pause in artistic flow i

A Guide To Igniting or Re-Igniting Your Creative Soul Through Life’s Simple, Guiding Principles Have you ever thought you were being honest with yourself, only to realize you’d been living in complete and utter denial? Sometimes, it takes the candid perspective of a best friend to point it out when we’re living in dreamland (“ hey, the guy you’re dating is BAD news”), or input from a financial advisor, ( “I’m sorry, but according to these numbers, you aren’t going to be able

A Guide To Igniting or Re-IgnitingYour Creative Soul Through Life’s Simple, Guiding Principles Courage: mental or moral strength to venture , persevere, and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty The bedroom I shared with my sister as a child took a variety of forms throughout the years. For most of the 70s, the room was flooded by a sea of orange and brown shag carpet topped with orange and white formica furniture which included a large dresser with six orange drawers, and ma

A Guide To Igniting or Re-Igniting Your Creative Soul Through Life’s Simple, Guiding Principles per·se·ver·ance /ˌpərsəˈvirəns/ noun persistence in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success. "No matter what" : These three simple words, a strong belief system, sharing what I've learned with others and the support of like-minded friends have helped keep me sober for nearly 15 years. The concept itself is simple: No matter what happens in life, you

A Guide To Recovering Your Creative Soul Through Life’s Simple, Guiding Principles Just over 20 years ago, a friend of mine in the publishing industry offered me a job as a graphic designer with a San Francisco-based music magazine. The job paid nearly $20,000 more per year than I was making at the time, and offered me the ability to work remotely from Chico--commuting on occasion to San Francisco to check in with the editorial and design teams. I thought I'd landed my dream

A Guide To Igniting or Re-Igniting Your Creative Soul Through Life’s Simple, Guiding Principles pa·tience /ˈpāSHəns/ noun 1. the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset. Yesterday, I fell. Hard. On a Saturday morning walk with a dear friend, we got to laughing so hard that I lost focus and found myself being launched up and over a huge boulder, ass-backwards. I was splayed out on my back before I could blink. For a momen