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Welcome creativity seeker! CoachingYourCreativity.com is designed to encourage you towards the limitless possibilities you can manifest in your life through the power of intention, pursuing your passions, and taking personal action — even the smallest of steps — in support of your creative life and dreams each day.
Indulge yourself by spending time with the inspiring articles, playful humor, and free coaching guides available to you on this site — all designed to honor your journey, your gifts, your talents, and your life, no matter where you are on the spectrum of creative expression.
If you are interested in working one-on-one with a dedicated creativity coach, please see my coaching services page and recent interview with author Peter Clothier, and feel free to contact me with your questions. Thank you for your interest!
Chris Dunmire
Certified Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coach™
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Nurture Creativity #18: Row a Metaphoric Boat
I love metaphors and the way you can take an idea and parallel its likeness to another in order to understand a concept more fully. Metaphors are like dressing room mirrors in the mind that, with good lighting, reflect back multiple angles of perspective — often ones overlooked — revealing the tucked-away details hidden from a straight-on pose.
Metaphors help develop our minds teach us wisdom in their reflections. We emerge from metaphoric space altered in some way, more discerning and discriminating. Undoubtedly, metaphors help carve out new neural connections in our brains and stimulate creative thinking.
Messes of Intentional Creativity
"How messy do you get with your creative projects?" Creativity Coach Dan Goodwin asks at the end of his article, Scribbling Outside the Lines: 7 Reasons Why it's Good to Make a Mess, to encourage creatives to practice more "cutting loose" and "creating freely without inhibition or restriction." In fact, he begins the article with the pivotal question, "When’s the last time you really made a mess?"
I can hear the responses from aristocrat artists right now. "ME make a mess? I can't possibly be messy on purpose. I'm here to produce the perfect masterpiece!" Which makes me think, what artist statement will boldly admit to "messes of intentional creativity" as part of the creative process? Oh, no, not THAT!
What Prompts Your Creativity?
Each year when the onset of autumn arrives in the Midwest I experience a profound shift in my creative life. I am infused with a new surge of energy and inspiration as I spend more time outdoors with nature enveloped in the changing season in all of its vibrant glory. I am infatuated with the beautiful earth tone colors produced by the harvest season: the reds, oranges, yellows, golds, and browns. I am comforted by the endless rows of tall corn stalks in the farmer’s fields near my home and the fruition of ripe juicy apples in the orchards.
Understanding Your Personal Creative Nature
Why do you think it's important to understand your own personal creative nature? How about for the simple reason that knowing yourself and embracing your strengths, weaknesses, likes, dislikes, aptitudes, gifts, and talents is the foundation of a satisfying and fulfilling creative life.
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