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Kristen
Feb 22 min read
Set Your Vision for Living a Creative Life
This is a collection of videos offering advice for setting a vision of the creative life you want to live
Kristen
Jan 192 min read
Connecting Your Purpose to Creativity
Consider how you connect your purpose with your creativity
Kristen
Jan 124 min read
Eight Questions to Help You Find Your Purpose
When you're ready to define your purpose, these questions can help
Kristen
Jan 53 min read
What's Your Why? 2024 Edition
Eight approaches to describing your why or your purpose in life
Kristen
Dec 8, 20234 min read
A Second Thing I Learned About Creativity in 2023: Just Do the Work
Learn the simplest strategy ever for making progress on your biggest goals.
Kristen
Sep 8, 20234 min read
An Introduction to Design Thinking
An introduction to design thinking as a method for creative problem-solving and innovation.
Kristen
Jul 28, 20233 min read
Defining Creativity
Creativity is hard to define. It's a mash-up of ideas and failure and fun. It's also a human trait that can go dormant if we're not careful.
Kristen
Jul 7, 20233 min read
Finding Flow and Happiness in Immersion
An introduction to flow, a sign of creative immersion and the key to happiness. Learn how researcher Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi described it.
Kristen
Mar 5, 20234 min read
Self-directed pep talk
Last week, I signed up to take Bonnie Christine's Immersion course. It's an 8-week self-directed course covering everything a person...
Kristen
Feb 18, 20234 min read
Practice and progress
There's an old joke that came to mind this week... "How do you get to Carnegie Hall?," asks a New York tourist. "Practice, practice,...
Kristen
Jan 8, 20233 min read
I don't know what to write
To be creative in the new year, focus on learning and practicing. Let go of originality. It doesn't exist.
Kristen
Dec 22, 20222 min read
Liberated Multipotentialite
While writing my last blog post about the artfulness of soap making, I learned a new word: multipotentialite. The simplest definition of...
Kristen
Nov 8, 20222 min read
Baseball and elections
This was originally published November 12, 2016. It's one of my favorite posts so I'm sharing it again on this election day when Herschel...
Kristen
Nov 4, 20224 min read
Dave Grohl, Artist
One of the books I listened to over the summer was Dave Grohl's memoir, The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music. Grohl is a man in his...
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until you know better. Then when you know better,
do better.
Maya Angelou
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