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The Red Door:
Expanding Your Capacity for Inspiration
Break through creative blocks with this guided imagery exercise.

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Everything I Ever Needed to Know I Learned Painting
Clear Writer's Block: Reader-Centric Writing, Profiling Your Readers
Your Book's Bottom Line: Tracking and Totals
There is No Wrong Way to Doodle
Being Open... for Creativity
What is Creativity? (9 Creativity Triggers)

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.

Introduction to The Zone Series
This is the first in an article series where we are sharing extracts from the book and taking you on a journey around the zones.

In The Zone
We all like to be 'in the zone.' Everything happens so magically when we are there.

Nine Guided Imageries to Inspire Creativity, Confidence, and Success.
Adventure through Discovery, Expansion, Surrender, Nurturing, Trust, Courage, Play, Freedom, and Comfort.

VocabuLeery Writing Exercise by Bonnie Neubauer.
When it comes to vocabulary, a thesaurus is a writer's best friend. Printable exercise 95 from Take Ten for Writers by Bonnie Neubauer.

The Magic Crayon Journal: Let's Begin...
How do you reconnect or rediscover the creativity that lies deep within? You just begin!

Creativity Coaching : Quinn McDonald

Find Your Creative Spark and Fan it into a Flame

Quinn McDonald Interview
An eye-opening look at Quinn's meaning-making life as an artist, writer, and coach.

After 25 years in the corporate world, Quinn McDonald finally gathered the courage to create a different life. She opened her own business, QuinnCreative, to pursue a life rich in experience and use her skills as an artist, writer and speaker to help others create and live the lives they want.

Quinn holds an MA in Folklore/ Popular Culture from California State University at Los Angeles. She graduated from the Coaches Training Institute as a life coach, and is a Certified Creativity Coach. Website: QuinnCreative.com Blog: uinnCreative.wordpress.com.

Creativity Articles by Quinn McDonald

Playing and Growing in a Creative Mastermind Group
By Quinn McDonald
Mastermind Groups are the brainchild of Napoleon Hill, the author of the 1937 book, "Think And Grow Rich."

"What Should I Write in My Journal?"
By Quinn McDonald
The idea of keeping a journal is often more comfortable than actually keeping one.

Too Busy to Keep a Journal? Try One-Sentence Journaling
By Quinn McDonald
Do you wish you could keep a journal, but don't have a lot of time to write in one? Try this creative solution...

Your Art Grows Up and Leaves You
By Quinn McDonald
Turning your artistic creations into salable inventory.

Creativity — Just Like Riding a Motorcycle
By Quinn McDonald
I realized how much riding has in common with being creative.

Moving Out of Your Comfort Zones
By Quinn McDonald
That horrible feeling of awkwardness and stupidity at the beginning of learning a new skill isn't fun.

Wabi Sabi and the Dance of Life
By Quinn McDonald
In a wabi-sabi life, you live within the recognition that all things are impermanent, all things are imperfect, all things are incomplete.

Creative Discipline
By Quinn McDonald
Discipline sounds punitive. Like doing things you don't want to do. The discipline in this article is different. It is the permission to do the things you want — in fact yearn — to do.

Only One Right Answer
By Quinn McDonald
Perception and reality: Creativity is about more than one right answer.

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