Most of us have never been encouraged to use our imagination. In fact we have often been discouraged with comments like “stop that daydreaming” or “why are you doing wasting time staring out the window.” When we are engaged in these activities we are letting our subconscious/unconscious mind run free to make new connections and [...]
Well, you’re right in the work, you lose your sense of time, you’re completely enraptured, you’re completely caught up in what you’re doing, and you’re sort of swayed by the possibilities you see in this work. . . .The idea is to be. . .so saturated with it that there’s no future or past, it’s [...]
The imagination is not interested in two-dimensional reductionism or naively pitting one side against another, dark against light. It is interested in the place where the two sides meet, and what they give birth to when they cross-fertilize each other. That is the heart of creativity. – John O’Donohue What is imagination but a reflection [...]
I believe in nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affection and the truth of the imagination. – John Keats As I witness the growing Occupy movement that through peaceful means is focusing on the need to transform systems that really are not working for the good of the whole, I have been thinking about [...]
Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity – not a threat. – Steve Jobs I call innovation one of the “i” words, like imagination, inspiration, intuition and illumination, it is a process that rises from an expanded state of awareness. I’ve long thought these five words should replace the three “r”s as [...]
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure. – Colin Powell My friend Melissa recently sent me a synopsis that a friend of hers had written after attending a Bank of America forum that featured a conversation with Malcolm Gladwell, author of insightful books about the [...]
Normal is not something to aspire to, it’s something to get away from. – Jody Foster It is never too late to be who you might have been. – George Eliot The word weird is derived from Old English. Originally spelled wyrd it was a concept in Anglo-Saxon culture roughly corresponding to our fate or [...]
Life is “trying things to see if they work.” – Ray Bradbury Mistakes are the portals of discovery. -James Joyce Recently I worked with a client who was really blocked in her writing and painting. Through our coaching we were able to discover that the root of the block was a fear of making mistakes. [...]
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. – Arthur Koestler The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. – Albert Einstein Sometimes creativity just means the daily work of helping others to see a problem in a different [...]
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain . What if your life where a blank piece of paper [...]