What will you create in your world today?



Genius Habits

Genius Habits

Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time

Do you ever say "I don't have the time to be innovative or creative"? Energy is the liveliness and force we need to sustain the creative process.

Art by Angela Blaha

Angela Blaha

The Unfinished Painting

What happens to art that never gets completed? Is it abandoned? On pause? Or does it serve a greater purpose for us to uncover?



Screen-Free Fun

Tee Time

Swing Into Creative Play!

Tee Time: Wordplay & Warm-Ups

MetaFOREing on the game of golf, play these 18 holes to expand your creative thinking of possibilities. Disengage your work-a-day brain to invite innovative thinking in through fun activities with a twist of humor.

Creativity

Genius Habits

Genius Habits

Unblock Creative Expression

Feeling stuck, stale or stressed out? Need to come up with fresh new ideas but just can't seem to get out of a rut? Try this 5-step action plan.

Profiles & Interviews

Valerie Day Interview

Interviews

Nu Shooz Musician, Teacher, and Coach Valerie Day

Valerie Day is a mother, educator, neuroscience and psychology geek, and creative explorer who fronted the Grammy-nominated band Nu Shooz in the 80s with pop hits in heavy rotation on MTV.



InterACTive

The Great Creativity Illuminator

Cast Light Upon Thee: The Great Creativity Illuminator

Curious? Crack your openness to experience and let the light shine in! These bits-o-wisdom, think-ables, and prompts are curated from global creativity experts, leaders, and deck dealers and are designed to activate your genetic disposition towards originality and authenticity.

Positive PlayFULLness

Positive Playfullness

funmire

How to Play Every Day

Cultivating a playful mindset can transform the most mundane moments into new opportunities for joy and connection. When you approach everyday situations with curiosity, enthusiasm, and a willingness to try new things, you naturally open the way for play to enter into your daily routine.



Humor

Starchy Seeds Card

Madam Bedazzle's Tarotble Readings

Starchy Seeds Card

Summertime matinees with stocked snack bars has Bedazzle thirsty to address the duality of "starch seeds" and their symbolic significance in handfuls of crunches and munches, which by the way, *are* different things.

SoulCollage®

SoulCollage

SoulCollage® Series

Inner Voices of Creativity

Join SoulCollage® facilitator Anne Marie Bennett on a journey to explore the Inner Voices of Creativity, those little voices in our minds that have something to say about everything we do — some helpful and some that get in our way. Use the SoulCollage® process to listen to what your own inner voices have to say.

Children's Creativity

Fostering Creativity in Children

Fostering Creativity in Children

Robert Henri's 'The Art Spirit'

American artist Robert Henri in 1923 wrote The Art Spirit in 1923, a collection of his lectures and portions of his correspondence with his students, and insightful, beautiful, and inspiring ideas about painting and the arts.



Writing

Boring Meeting

Matthew Dicks

8 Audience Engagment Hacks

Audience attention and engagement are not givens. If there is no attempt to entertain, then even when someone has important, relevant, or useful information to share, the audience will often be disengaged, disinterested, and distracted, and so miss and not even remember the good stuff.

Creativity Coaching

Painting by Georgia O'Keeffe

Rita Farin

Georgia O'Keeffe and the Creative Process

"Who wants to spend their life painting rabbits and copper bowls?" asks the 91-year-old Georgia O'Keeffe in her 1977 documentary. O'Keeffe stopped painting because she didn't feel like she had her own style.


9 Modern Day Muses

Symbol of Shadow

Modern Day Muses

The Shadow Muse — Gifts of Your Dark Side

Oh, the energy we use in this society to suppress what we perceive to be our undesirable traits — our negativity, judgmental nature, and our other secret peculiarities and struggles. People who passionately irk us are usually mirroring our own shadows back to us.

More Muses

Urania

Invoking the Muses

Urania's Meteor Shower

The Athenian muses were the nine sister goddesses of imagination, inspiration, and the arts in ancient Greek mythology. Stargazing with Urania, the Muse of Astronomy, Astrology, and Universal Love.