Creativity

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How to Distinguish Opinion from Insight

Insight is a valuable tool for leaders to employ as we solve complex problems and create new possibilities ...

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7 Tips to Write Innovative Proposals

Q: I’m working on a proposal related to drug and substance abuse that will benefit women, youth, and girls. I need innovative methods to...

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How to Step Outside Your Comfort Zone

Q: How can I challenge myself to step outside of my comfort zone? As leaders, it is important for us to push ourselves and redefine our...

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Explore

Openness is a gift Without end Lacking parameters I can Freely explore all that is Available to me In this world, This vast, expansive...

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Intentional Carelessness

Intentional carelessness is the act of purposefully choosing not to attach ourselves to what happens or to what happens as a result of...

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Mind = Action

What happens in our minds and our actions are mutually influential. Our minds offer us the freedom to be open, continually metamorphic,...

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Le Pièce de Résistance

Recently, as I presented a casserole made for my grandmother out of a certain canned spare animal parts product, with love as only such a...

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Hungry Muse, Naughty Muse

I yearn to create writing that is imaginative, playful, honest, and luscious — and to do so on a consistent basis. Writing is not only an...

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Art for the Masses

A few years ago, when visiting a major museum in the Mid-Atlantic area which shall remain unnamed, I was absolutely mortified when an...