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  • Beach Card: The Power of Write

    I am busy beavering away finishing the Beach Cards Companion Ebook, ready for the Beach Cards Launch next month, so rather than frazzle myself out writing new articles every week (and taking my focus away from the finishing touches), I have decided for the next few weeks to share a few of the cards. This…

  • Big Dreams Come True: Catherine Ryan Howard

    I’ve had the idea for YEARS to do a blog series about Big Dreams coming true – interviewing fabulous people (like you!) about having their Big Dream come true. Then Catherine Ryan Howard asked for help to launch her new book “Distress Signals”, and this seemed like the PERFECT time to launch the series. If…

  • 10 Tips to Recover from Failure

    Failure is part of life. I don’t know anyone who’s succeeded in any field who hasn’t failed in some way. But we all feel as if failure is JUST US! It’s just us who feel the hurt and inadequacy of failure. This is partly because most people don’t share their failures out loud – they…

  • Reach Your Potential for JOY!

    I saw an advert this week for a program that will help you ‘find your purpose’ and ‘meet your full potential’ and I had a moment of reminiscing about when I was desperate to do both of those things. I really wanted to figure out what this life thing was all about – why was…

  • 27 Creative Guidelines

    I’ve been inspired this week by the Creative Catalyst Circle – my new Facebook group, and by Allison Crow Flanigan’s “BE Team” group (which is all about pulling back from the insanity of busyness, stress and ‘nexting’) to create this set of creative guidelines: No pushing. No striving. No nexting. More BEing. More joyful creation.…

  • Getting Stick Drawings on the Computer

    A few people have asked me how I do my stick drawings and get them ‘in the computer’. Here’s my process: 1. Draw in pencil my stick person 2. Go over the edges in thick black marker/colouring pen 3. Take a photo of it on my phone 4. Open up that image in paint.net (get…

  • In Praise of Single Tasking

    So over the past few years, I have become a devotee of the work method of “ single tasking ” – working on just one thing at a time instead of 86 things at once. When I say devotee, I mean, I know it’s a good idea, and then I forget to do it for…

  • Use Your Imagination to Create Magic, Not Stress

    I had a procedure this week – just to investigate and check out and make sure all is well. Nothing to worry about. And I was not worried about the procedure itself…I was more worried about the sedative and painkiller. I don’t take drugs. The last time I had an Ibuprofen was about 3 years…

  • Attack of the what if’s

    Did you ever have an attack of the ‘what-if’s? For example: what if no one buys my book, what if my product bombs, what if I make a fool of myself, what if my business fails, what if I’m not good enough? Everyone has these worries – even Harry Potter before his first Quidditch game!…

  • Fall in Love With Your Inner Critic

    There is a lot of advice out there about dealing with your inner critic – shutting her up, telling her to fuck off, boxing her in, ignoring her. Hmmm. I never liked the idea of demonising my inner critic – after all, she is still part of me, even if she is a part I…