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  • Welcome!
  • Start here
  • Blog
    • Reclaim Your Energy
    • Reconnect with Yourself
    • Make Space to Create
    • The Creative Practice
  • Mini Series
    • Confessions of a Serial Hobbyist
    • Adventures in Writing
    • The Busy Season Survival Guide
    • Making Space
    • The Busy Creative’s Guide to Bullet Journaling
    • The Rapid Log
  • About the Writer
  • Let’s Connect
  • Newsletter
  • Resources
  • Adventures in Writing Goal-Setting to Improve as a Writer
    The Creative Practice

    Adventures in Writing: Goal-Setting to Improve as a Writer

    October 1, 2024

    So, you know what’s holding your writing back. What will you do about it? Personally, one of my biggest challenges is writing more concisely. (Why is it so hard? I have some theories.) At work, writing more (and more) concisely has been a decade-long process. I try to be mindful…

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  • Adventures in Writing: Why is it so hard to be concise?
    The Creative Practice

    Adventures in Writing: Why Is It So Hard to Be Concise?

    September 30, 2024

    Here I'm musing on the struggle to write concisely, what I hope to achieve, and four ideas to start writing more concisely and with focus.

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    The Peaceful Warrior: How To Slow Dance With Fear

    August 5, 2024

    I've always thought it's important to pick up your creative medium of choice, uphold your boundaries, fight through your fears, and make art. As I’ve spent more time making stuff, I’ve decided my inner creative warrior is more of a peaceful warrior. A lover, not a fighter. Read on as we discuss…

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    The Creative Practice

    Three Business Valuation Quotes Helping Me Tackle the Blank Page

    February 22, 2024

    Showing up to the blank page is hard. Does your day job have anything to say about it? In this post I share my three favourite quotes from my studies in business valuations and explore the parallels between this profession and art.

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  • Watercolour literally running away from the perfectionism problem
    The Creative Practice

    Literally Running Away From the Perfectionism Problem

    October 10, 2023

    Running is one of my favourite ways to break through a creative block, but it wasn't always! In this post I share my journey to the joy of running and explore the valuable lessons in life and creativity that it offers.

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    The Creative Practice

    Billie Eilish on Carpool Karaoke and the Joy of Just Messing Around

    September 22, 2023

    There’s something about Billie Eilish that pulls me in and makes me want to make things. Can anyone else relate? I was watching the Billie Eilish episode of Carpool Karaoke with James Corden, and I was immediately transported back to my own teenage years, just messing around making music and…

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    The Creative Practice

    Debit This, Create That: A New Venture in Balancing the Books and the Creative Life

    August 5, 2023

    If you’ve ever slumped back in your chair and thought gosh, I’d really love to chat with my accountant about embracing the creative life… My friend, you’ve come to the right place! (Kidding, kidding...) This is the first post of a new venture: a blog in which one accountant balances…

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