creative maverick

Following on from yesterday’s post “How you do anything is how you do everything“, I thought I’d share something from the world of psychotherapy on the same topic which will really press the point home.
I have been on a Professional Development course in Psychotherapy at Spectrum Therapy for 6 years now. In the 2nd year, [...]

I took T. Harv Eker’s Millionaire Mind Intensive last weekend. Intensive was the word as we endured three 13 hour days in a hall in Excel Exhibition Centre in East London.
Harv has a mantra which is
How you do anything is how you do everything
He pointed out that how we approach the workshop is how we [...]

I hang out with Scanners a lot. A Scanner is someone who has a lot of interests, is fascinated by new ideas and gets bored doing just one job or one thing with their life. I’ve got to know the Scanner mindset pretty well from running Scanners Night and advising Scanners on how to find [...]

Since taking the Lightning Process training, I reckon I’ve got the answer to that old secret-of-happiness question. Want to know it?
How to be happy
Think happy thoughts, recall happy memories, create happy visions of the future.
Er that’s it.
Michael Neill makes a great case in his book Feel Happy Now! that happiness is not dependent on external [...]

Last night I drove through 3 hours of snow to get back from Suffolk where I had taken the 3 day Lightning Process training. I had plenty of time to reflect on the training and even use it in my head as the snow got thicker, visibility dropped and the traffic on the roads slowed [...]

“Know thine enemy as completely as you know yourself and you will always be victorious.” Sun Tzu
The number one enemy of your creativity and happiness is your Top Dog. Every creativity exercise ever invented was designed to get past it.
Life Coach Pete Cohen says:
“The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your [...]

If you’re creatively blocked, if you can’t work out what you’d really like to do with your life, if others’ criticism cuts you to the bone, if you’re haunted by negative visions of the future, or if your mood takes a dive at the smallest trigger, there’s one culprit behind it all.
It’s the number one [...]

So now it’s 2009 have you been writing down your goals and plans for the year? Did you do the same thing last year? How did that turn out? If the result was a sense of failure and despondency, let’s do something different this year.
I tried a couple of times to work through the process [...]

Here is the first Creative Maverick daily habit for you to try:
At the beginning of the day when you first wake up, ask these 2 questions:
ONE: “If I was set for life, didn’t need the money and was not already committed, would I choose to do what I am about to do today?”
Write down your [...]

There’s a problem with this incessant goal-setting that so many coaches are into.
It places a focus on the future and suggests relentless action and compromise in the present to get there. When you achieve that goal, you allow yourself a brief period of rejoicing and then set a new one. Urg, I feel a sense [...]