There is a lot of great advice on the internet about how to be creative, get inspired, start when staring at a blank page….This is one of my favorite lists – from Gaping Void‘s Hugh Macleod.Here is a sampling to whet your appetite: 15. The most important thing a creative person can learn professionally is [...]

Coming up with ideas is difficult for so many people. Not for us creatives! Ideas come bubbling up all the time for me. I had so many more activity and how-to ideas that I had to update the activity-play-book for the clutter challenged. I’ve uploaded the newest version on lulu.com (she said relieved – as [...]

Marketing advice is everywhere these days.But everyone in business has a lightbulb moment – a favorite piece of advice that gets your wheels turning in a new direction.The best piece of marketing advice I got was to stop doing my own marketing.Us creatives think if we’re visual we are certainly going to do work as [...]

Creative people couldn’t be living at a better time.Our techie counterparts have made it soooo easy for us to take our ideas and make them into interesting and memorable products that can be used for ourselves, shared, and sold.I’m talking about books. Picture books. Word books. Work books. And play books.The internet abounds with places [...]

Ideas don’t always come in neat sequential lists. In fact mine hardly ever do. The folks at Lobotome know this too and they’ve made a nifty list maker just for Righties. The List Me ,Doodle Me notepad is great for taking to the grocery store or sitting at your desk. (That’s where most my doodles [...]

Try out a Right Brain approach you haven’t tried before.Organize books by color insted of by subject or alphabetical. This is my shelf of organizing books – I still like to keep them by category.Other people have organized entire book collections by color. (2nd photo from flickr) When your brain thinks that way.If you search [...]

October is Right Brainers Rule Month according to Chase’s Calendar of Events.To kick off the celebration, I interviewed Lee Silber, Author of Organizing from the Right Side of the Brain and Time Management for Creative People (and 11 more books). You can hear how he thinks Right about organizing and how he suggests Righties do [...]

Creative women starting businesses are sometimes put off by the traditional, masculine approach.Spreadsheets are NOT what many creative women want to talk about.They want to discuss their ideas with friends and like-minded women.They let their ideas percolate for a while before they’re ready to create their baby and let it hatch.If this sounds like you [...]