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
When I Say I Love You I Mean It When I say I love you I mean it. I’m talking about how I feel when you open up the front door after a long day at work. The door swings open, you roll your bike into the kitchen, and a smile forms on your face. It quickly makes it way to your kind eyes […] Written by Abby Quigle July 25, 2021July 25, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Should You Turn Your Hobby Into a Career? Should you turn your hobby into a career? About five years back, I acted on the cliched advice: follow your passion to get out of the rut of 9–5 job. I spent a good time at the first step — finding my passion. I had many hobbies that could become my passion. And as you […] Written by Rummy Kaur July 24, 2021July 24, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
I Miss My Father Who Passed Away I miss my father who passed away in 2016 on New Year’s Day, when I was 26. It was the second time we lost him—the first was five years earlier when a massive stroke hemorrhaged through his brain, leaving him hospitalized and in rehabilitation for the better part of two years. He never fully recovered. […] Written by Allison Ruttger July 19, 2021July 19, 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
Story of an Indian girl-seeking her identity Sitting in my study, looking out the window to the grey of monsoon. Thundering clouds and cold sharp breeze, makes me wonder about the years that have passed. Just like a painters promise to its blank canvas, it was hindsight’s promise of realization to me. Lived an itinerant life, my family moved around a lot […] Written by Yashi Rana November 17, 2020November 17, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Counter Intuitive Truth About Life Life is messy. Nothing rarely goes to plan. If it goes to plan. The plan will change. The plan implies control. Do you feel in control? I don’t. Control is an illusion. From clever men. Who believe they can control the ocean. Or tame it. The ocean is the ocean. The hope is to navigate […] Written by Joel Mwakasege May 2, 2017May 2, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
