“Creative work is not the selfish act or bid for attention on the part of the actor. It’s a gift to the world and every being on it. Don’t cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you’ve got.” — Steven Pressfield, The War of Art In addition to becoming more of who we are, […]
Document Link: We Can Create a Better World
]]>In order to be effective leaders, we must know how to bring the best out of ourselves as well as encourage the same in others. Therein lies the rub. Despite outward appearances, when in a position of leadership we may still feel like we don’t know enough, that everything we do needs to be perfect, […]
Document Link: 6 Ways Leaders Can Start Banishing Their Inner Critic
]]>Putting it off doesn’t make it go away. Getting it done does. — Ned Hallowell, Driven to Distraction You get out of the meeting with your client, full of ideas and energy about what you’re going to do next. You commit to a deadline for ideas, a proposal, designs — some kind of deliverable to […]
Document Link: Breaking the Perfectionism-Procrastination Infinite Loop
]]>“Choice of attention – to pay attention to this and ignore that – is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer.” — W. H. Auden, poet In the past, the Inner Critic may have seemed like a huge, intimidating presence in your mind, with your stringent self-criticisms appearing as if they are the […]
Document Link: Is Your Inner Critic Too Loud? Tune It Out!
]]>In our age of distraction and overwhelm, it’s all too easy to forget that time is a mental construct, and what our brains are actually keeping track of is where we put our attention. If you have simply too much going on to be creative, then you need to shift attention, especially as the management […]
Document Link: How to Reclaim Time and Create Mental Space
]]>“None of us is as smart as all of us.” — Kenneth H. Blanchard, author and management expert Feelings of deficiency can foster competitiveness and jealousy, which tend to shut down your creativity. When we are overcome with feeling like we don’t know enough and that we’ll never be able to keep up with our […]
Document Link: The Art of Plussing People’s Ideas By Using “Yes, And”
]]>I love this video as much today as I did when I first watched it several years back. The principles that Randy teaches are not only the foundations of improv, but also are the secret to ANY successful creative collaboration endeavor. The practice of not judging something that comes to you to work with is […]
Document Link: Video: The Collaborative Age with Randy Nelson
]]>“The problem with worry is that we attract the very thing we are trying to avoid. We live a self-fulfilling prophecy. Life keeps its agreement with us through our beliefs, because whatever we think about, we bring about. Life is like a mirror. It reflects back whatever image we present to it.” — Dr. Robert […]
Document Link: Hack Confirmation Bias: Keep a Kudos File
]]>“Change is the end result of all true learning.” — Leo Buscaglia, author Much of what people think of as the Inner Critic is precisely what we are dealing with in this book: the voice of self-criticizing, self-doubt, and self-berating. However, there is another part of our psyche I think of more as “the Inner […]
Document Link: How to Transform Your Inner Critic Into an Inner Evaluator
]]>If you are afraid that you’ll run out of ideas, then the obvious solution is to come up with a lot of them regularly. Serial entrepreneur James Altucher calls this regular practice to keep the idea muscle of your brain from atrophying “idea therapy.” Don’t let your brain get flabby – exercise your “idea muscle.” […]
Document Link: How to Generate A Lot of Ideas
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