Dreaming… Obstacles & Solutions

​In celebration of the New Year I wanted to spend January focusing on how we make our dreams come true and what stops us from doing this. In the first blog I introduced you to the “Disney Strategy,” which includes a process of creating from three different...

To Dream… Or Not

Last week I presented Walt Disney’s strategy for creating and “making dreams come true.” Well, what if we are not dreamers, or nothing seems to come of our dreams when we do? The question this week is… What stops us? What gets in the way of...

Revisiting Love

​I wanted to do this last blog for 2014 on the topic of love. Needless to say this is a topic that has been written about, sung and spoken of by many wise people, so the question is, what calls me to add my two-bits worth? Having thought about this for quite awhile, I...

The Importance of Closure

As we enter the final month of 2014, I think it’s perfect time to talk about completions and endings. It makes sense that in order to embrace something “new,” we need to finish or close the “old.” Many years ago I discovered people have...

Why We Need Creativity

In this final blog on creativity, I want to put some of the ideas together in a concrete example and focus on why we need creativity in our lives. Over the past few years, I’ve attend an annual mandala painting workshop in Nelson, BC. I’m not a trained...

What Stops Our Creativity?

What Stops Our Creativity? Today’s focus is on what stops creativity? Dewitt Jones, former National Geographic photographer, says one of the fastest ways to stop creativity is to believe there is only one right answer. For many of us we learned this at school...