Your creativity doesn’t come to fruition in a vacuum. There are lots of incremental steps involved. Courage plays an important role in the creative endeavor. As the following quote from van Gogh attests, being creative can often involve overcoming obstacles and breaking through boundaries, both internal and external: “If you hear a voice within you…
Courageous Boundaries Help You Create Time and Space for Yourself
Courageous boundaries? Really? Yes, because sometimes it’s hard to say no. Indeed, for many people, saying no is quite difficult. Competing priorities clamor for attention and sorting that all out often means setting some courageous boundaries. Maybe your schedule and To-Do List are jam-packed, and adding one more thing will throw everything else out-of-whack. But…
Boost Your Courage and Nourish Yourself with Love
When times get hard you can boost your courage whenever you choose. That may sound like a tall tale, but it truly isn’t. Any time you are asked, by life or by your own choices, to explore in new directions, you have to stretch. And that stretch that will both challenge and nourish you. It…
Your Courage: Cultivate It to Make Change Possible
When you cultivate your courage you give yourself a boost, no matter what your goals may be. Even small steps sometimes require courage. But why is that? Well, for starters, even when they don’t serve you, it’s not always easy to step away from old pastimes or habits. If you’re working to change a pattern…
From Fear to Courage — Small Steps and Your Inner Lizard
Fear stifles creativity, shuts down new ideas, and just plain stops people in their tracks. When you’re in the grip of fear, courage often feels like a death-defyingly out of reach choice. Some part of you says “danger” and whatever you were contemplating looks like a risk too big to venture — a step too big…
Letting Go, the Wisdom of Simplicity, and Your Time
Simplicity is a value that we often neglect in our focus on getting things done. Indeed, strategic letting go is a key time skill to cultivate. But more often than not, our inclination is to try to do more. Most time management tools and tips have you aiming for amped-up efficiency and increased productivity. These aren’t bad things, per se, but…
Everplans – Planning at Its Hardest and Most Meaningful
Everplans is a service that offers tools for planning what to do and where to keep important information that your loved ones will need access to after you have died. Memorial Day certainly brings to mind, very poignantly, the necessity for such planning.
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