Flower Power - May 15, 2008 Newsletter

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Crafting Your Business Vision and Values
Where Is Your Business Headed, and What Do You and Your Company Stand For? Your work, like that of most creative entrepreneurs, expresses who you are. Your creative business reflects your vision, values, and voice.

Your vision is the big picture of your business (and your life). It's where you see yourself heading and includes how you're making a positive difference, what success looks and feels like to you, and what makes life and work ripe with fulfillment and meaning.

Are You Your Audience?
... I thought to myself (in run-on sentence form), "If I need to change the title and take the fun out of the writing, never mind publishing conventionally, I think I'll just publish the book myself because it is after all, a book on CREATIVITY so I'm thinking MAYBE it can be DIFFERENT." Two months later an agent grabbed the original version and within two weeks, five of the biggest publishing houses in New York were bidding for it. ...

... I had followed the advice of one of the Muses I wrote about—a Muse called Audacity.

Improve R&D Creative Output and Innovation
Fully 50% of R&D scientists and engineers wrote that "other people" were the biggest help to their creativity at work—good work-place relationships. Another R&D scientist wrote that the biggest help to his creativity was when the boss left town—a poor relationship. It's important for the R&D team leader to have good relationships with work-place subordinates.

Question is: "What type of leader are you? What relationships do you foster?"

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“Words can flow like a river, washing away the pain and carving a new valley, breaking down the boulders that mar the path." — Kristi Tencarre, It's All Write

In This Issue

May 2008 Journal
Monthly Columns & Featured Series
More What’s New @ the CP

May 2008 Journal

Photo Essay: The Inspirational Power of the Flower
By Chris Dunmire, Publisher

Each spring I am so inspired by the 'explosion of color and scent' all around the Midwest in the form of blossoming trees, budding bushes, and blooming flowers.

Eckhart Tolle, in the evocation for chapter one of his book, A New Earth, beautifully describes the inspiration flowers have provided to countless artists, poets, and mystics since the beginning of time through their delicate beingness of artful beauty, color, and scent. More »

P.S. Speaking of inspirational flowers, please, please, don't miss reading our featured Creative Careers in the Arts interview with 'Writing from the Deeper Self' book developer and writing coach Naomi Rose this month!

Introducing Interior Designer Jessica Ackerman
Jessica Ackerman is an exciting and originative designer with vast experience in residential interior design. Her tips and advice have been featured on a number of home decor websites including www.walldecorandhomeaccents.com. Read Jessica's first article in a series appearing on the Creativity Portal: Ideas for Decorating Wood Picture Frames. Welcome, Jessica!

Chris Dunmire

Chris Dunmire
Creative Director and Publisher

Monthly Columns & Featured Series

Creativity & Wellness: Body Blissmas
Sculpting Your Health as a Creative Outlet
By Jill Badonsky
Exercise and good nutrition are creative fuel. Be a rebel and eat well. It's not the norm.

Love of the Craft
Looking at Your Preferences and Passions
By Dave Duggins
Q: I want to write. I do write. I don't finish anything. So, when my friend emailed me your article about unfinished projects, I dictated it into a tape recorder and I will listen to it while falling asleep each night, to get it drilled into my head....

Creative Careers in the Arts Interviews
Interview with Book Developer & Writing Coach Naomi Rose
By Molly Anderson-Childers
Naomi Rose is a writer and Book Developer with over 30 years in the publications field. She works with writers, frequently first-time book writers, to nurture their book into being.

Art of the Song Creativity Corner
The Silly Monkey
By Jan Haller
Working with children makes it clear why so many adults have lost contact with their creativity. We are making the results so much more important than this incredible gift of exploring that children have.

More What's New @ the CP

It's All Write
By Kristi Tencarre
Honour yourself through the development of the gift that God has given you. Honour your voice through writing.

Ideas for Decorating Wood Picture Frames
By Jessica Ackerman
Basic wood picture frames cost very little, and they can be decorated to look just as impressive as more expensive decorative frames.

Listening: Basic to Creativity and to Business
By Mary H. Ruth
Creative people attend their subjects with skilled concentration. They're intimately familiar with the state of intense absorption that characterizes profound listening.