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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 Cubicle: Haven for Inspiration or Sign of a Cluttered Mind?

    April 5, 2024

    Cluttered desk, cluttered mind. Or is it empty desk, empty mind?  Tour a cubicle-filled office and you’ll probably see a moderate amount of stuff on the desks, a few resources on the wall, maybe some personal effects, but occasionally you’ll run into two extremes: Let me tell you, I have…

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    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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    The Reciprocal Relationship Between Creativity and Career

    February 1, 2024

    Many of us struggle with trying to enjoy a prolific creative life while holding down a 9-to-5, and so we just... Don't! We resolve that we'll pick up our hobbies again upon retirement, and until then we go on trudging through our day jobs. That can't be right, can it?…

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    Pent-Up Creative Energy (Living With the Inner Border Collie)

    August 19, 2023

    Elizabeth Gilbert said, "Possessing a creative mind, after all, is something like having a border collie for a pet; it needs to work, or else it will cause you an outrageous amount of trouble." I immediately identified with this statement when I recognized this pent-up creative energy in myself. Here…

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  • Creativity, Lost and Found: My Story (and Signs It's Time to Reconnect With Yours)
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    Creativity, Lost and Found: My Story (and Signs it’s Time to Reconnect With Yours)

    August 12, 2023

    Lost your creative spark? This post explores how career and burnout quietly disconnect you from your creativity, how to recognize it, and how to start creating for yourself again. Does my story resonate? Let's set out on our journey back to our creativity!

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