Creativity Writing How the Community Helped Me Edit 19,293 Words I have an upcoming magazine on healing. I wrote it in accumulative sessions. It combines transcripts from interviews and personal stories. At the start, it was 19,293 words, edited to 18,742 words. The Cause for Requesting Help The magazine additionally needed design and marketing. I was to do them both. Yet, I had other commitments […] Written by Joel Mwakasege October 29, 2020October 29, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Creativity My Hellish Experience As a Child Dancer My mom’s brother was a dancer himself so my mom knew what all that dance life was about. A effortless picture for others and a hellish experience to me. Written by Ana Lapatina May 13, 2020May 13, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Creativity Lessons Learnt From An Overthinker Perfectionist I DESIRE perfection. It is a fact I am living with. I don’t like to do things mediocre and so when I do something, anything, I review, I revise, I think and I think and I think. My push for perfection had led to me being a complete and utter overthinker, which unfortunately resulted in inaction. Written by Ria Vanessa Caliste April 30, 2020April 30, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Courage Creativity The Powerful Tool You’ve Always Wanted When Presented with Creative Challenges Courage. Falling down, screwing up, and facing hurt. Hurts. It’s okay when it feels impossible to learn trust and lean into love again. Too many people today choose to act out their hurt, instead of feeling hurt. They choose to inflict pain on others, instead of acknowledging pain. They choose to live disappointed, rather than […] Written by Joel Mwakasege July 5, 2017July 5, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Courage Creativity Discover Your Strengths and Supercharge Your Creativity Don’t squander your creative energies. By investing disproportionately. In the lives, hopes, dreams, and plans of others. Discover the joy of practicing your creativity. There is room for all of us. Much fear of creativity is the fear of the unknown. Surrender your need to control the results. Learn to enjoy the process of being […] Written by Joel Mwakasege July 1, 2017July 1, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Courage Creativity The One Irrefutable, Universal Law of Creativity Success Be curious. Yes, curiosity requires surrender to uncertainty. And yes, curiosity like vulnerability can lead to hurt. But what’s the alternative? To choose certainty over curiosity, armor over vulnerability, knowing over learning. Shuts you down. For ideas to become a reality. They have to be received with open hands, inquisitive mind and wondering hearts. If […] Written by Joel Mwakasege June 30, 2017June 30, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Courage Creativity Is This Common Creative Fear Putting Your Creativity at Risk? Fear of Mistakes Do not fear mistakes. Create freely. Allow errors to show themselves later as insight. When you correct your originality into a uniformity. The work lacks passion and spontaneity. Don’t get ensnared in getting the details right. Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It’s a pursuit of the worst. The part that tells you […] Written by Joel Mwakasege June 29, 2017June 29, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Courage Creativity Little Known Bad Habit that Crushes Your Creativity And Stifles Your Success It’s your job to do the work. Not judge the work. As an artist, you can not afford. To think about who is getting ahead of you. The desire to better than. Can choke of the simple desire to be. Let the critics spot trends. Let reviewers concern themselves with what is in and what […] Written by Joel Mwakasege June 24, 2017June 24, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Courage Creativity Is Creative Life Simple? Really Be alert. In addition to many gains. Like joy, pleasure, and fame. As a creative, you face loss. Loss of hope, loss of face, loss of money, loss of self-belief. Flag and mourn the losses. An artist who buries his pain over losses. Will ultimately cripple himself into silence. Let yourself heal. Yes, loss scares […] Written by Joel Mwakasege June 22, 2017June 22, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Courage Creativity Get this Creativity Cornerstone Right Or Go Home Don’t get caught up. Between action. And the fear of failure. Yes, if you care enough and dare enough. You will experience disappointment. But what choice do you have? You either dare greatly to walk into your story and own your truth. Or you live outside of your story, hustling for your worthiness. Very often […] Written by Joel Mwakasege June 15, 2017June 15, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Courage Creativity How Our Obsession With Greatness Kills the Ability to Create To be great. Give yourself permission. To begin to sing, write and dance. The need to produce a great work of art. Makes it hard to produce any art at all. Creativity. It’s an awkward, tentative, even embarrassing process. Take a chance. To stumble is normal. Go gently and slow. Baby steps. It’s progress, not […] Written by Joel Mwakasege June 7, 2017June 7, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Courage Creativity To Find More Joy and Less Stress? Master this Creative Practice Don’t deny yourself time. Time with friends, family or with yourself. Even if all you manage to carve out. Is a ten-minute mini bath after work. Creative living requires the luxury of time. Is to miss the point. When they use work as a reason. To always make you miss. Time for a family dinner, […] Written by Joel Mwakasege June 2, 2017June 2, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Former Skinhead’s Life After Hate My eyes darted over to Matt. He stood close by, at the kiosk next to mine. With eyes narrowed in concentration, he watched my boss Dan. Instead of greeting passing shoppers and trying to lure them in for a look at merchandise, Matt watched Dan with laser-like focus. “Don’t come over! Don’t come over!” I […] Written by Chris Shafer February 16, 2021February 16, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
How to Say I Disagree In a Smart Way One of the most troubling aspects of this new hyper-digital era is our crumbling ability to communicate with people who disagree with us. There is the sense that we are shouting across a void at one another — in completely different languages. Our rebuttals are locked and loaded as we scan tweets, posts, and articles […] Written by Kenton Klassen February 9, 2021February 12, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
4 Steps to Recover From Anxiety and Depression I took several steps to recover from anxiety and depression. But the moment I realized the severity of it all, I was sixteen years old. One night I had stripped down to take a shower, and before stepping in, I saw a profile of my body; I had always been a thin kid, but horror and […] Written by Simon Hoffman January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
How to Journal for Anxiety and Depression: 3 Things to Journal About In my first year of college, I was anxious all the time. It was likely a result of not sleeping enough combined with stress. The pinching feeling in my chest haunted me to the extent that I couldn’t sleep at night. For me, anxiety manifests in a quick heartbeat and a tight feeling in my […] Written by Amy Tang January 6, 2021January 6, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life Lessons from Motherhood Trenches Our daughter was born ten years after we got married. Not that we did not think of starting a family before, but life was so full of late-night parties, impromptu vacations, hanging out, and hangovers, it left no space for a little one. With the biological clock ticking away, we finally took the plunge and […] Written by Payal Koul October 9, 2020October 9, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Pregnancy During a Pandemic PREGNANCY DURING A PANDEMIC is different. Everyone is experiencing a different version of the current pandemic. Some are still doing an excellent job in the health sector, collecting our rubbish and serving us in supermarkets. Others are at work or working from home in a way they’ve never done before. Written by Karen Love June 30, 2020June 30, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked