Creativity keeps the right brain active, which, in turn, benefits left-brain thinking. It opens us up to new insights and innovations. It enriches our analytical abilities, expanding our tools for interpreting data and solving problems. It energizes us, making us more productive. And it makes everything more fun.
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I had the pleasure of serving as the 2018 corporate poet laureate of Lawless Research, a leader in market research. Peggy Lawless, CEO, had these kind words to say about our work together.
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Many thanks to Superstition Review for publishing my poem “Cosmology: Four Score” in its tenth anniversary issue, and congratulations on a decade on the literary scene to founding editor Patricia Colleen Murphy and the entire staff!
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Heliograph Communications is approaching two decades in business. It seems like a good time to look inward, reminisce, and ask why. How and why is it that I still feel so jazzed to help individuals and organizations advance their goals and make their visions reality…
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New to the idea of a writing coach? Read on to learn how coaching can help you develop your writing skills, expand your body of work, and get in touch with your unique voice. Johannah provides answers to some key questions: What is a…
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It doesn’t have to take a disaster to write a good poem. If you cultivate mindful openness, humility, and surrender, you can sustain your creativity under any circumstance.
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Try to catch yourself before you go into your usual reactions—and if you’re having trouble with that, try writing about it. Cry over the page. It can take whatever you have to give.
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It’s a new year, and there are lots of new events and services in the works. My motto for 2012 is, “Just start it!” That goes for you, too, and your writing or creative endeavors. No more thinking–GO! With that in mind, we’ve expanded into…
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True genius, a deep and authentic sense of creativity, is only possible if, at some level, you accept the process of constantly becoming, if you know yourself to be both Frankenstein and Einstein–because only the beginner’s mind is capable of genius.
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You must be a beginner before you can be brilliant, which is why there is so much honor in starting anything new, in putting your hands in the dirt and planting a new seed. As you learn to write, it is critical to know that ignorance is a critical stage of genius.
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