The Creative Instinct

Creative Development for Artists, Writers and all Artistic Creativity

Well – I outlined in the previous post how unfairly we can treat ourselves, even when we are paragons of generosity to everyone else. Now clearly that’s not a healthy way of being. In my experience, people who harbour only harsh thoughts about themselves can live lives [...]

Creative Development for Artists, Writers and all Artistic Creativity

There’s lots to write about on this topic. Small gifts to yourself can be mundane (boring?) yet profound – those every-day details that offer your future-self practical help. This has been a big benefit for me and I’ll say more about it soon.
But one of the more [...]

Creative Development for Artists, Writers and all Artistic Creativity

I’m starting this post with a very, very big statement. Here it is: when the giving and receiving of small gifts becomes habitual, your world will be a better place. That’s big – but it’s not big enough. Make the small-gift mentality global and the whole world [...]

Creative Development for Artists, Writers and all Artistic Creativity

It’s 7:50 am on a Tuesday morning and I’ve just received a tiny, unexpected gift from nature involving a couple of spiders and an intricate dance of life and death.
I’ve been mulling over a post about the power of small gifts for a few days now, without [...]

Creative Development for Artists, Writers and all Artistic Creativity

I’ve been doing a lot of reading about attaining enhanced wellbeing – about what brings people a sense of fulfilment, meaning and peace. All at once my thoughts crystallized into this simple formula that cuts to the essence of how to increase your sense of lifelong wellbeing.
Despite [...]