Archive for January, 2010

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5-Things-IconI know it’s been almost a week since my last update, and I want to thank you for your patience and support. Your comments last Friday were so thoughtful, and I can’t tell you how much I appreciated your words of encouragement. We are almost finished unpacking, and life is resuming its normal pace again. Chris and I have been unpacking nonstop. I can see the floor of my closet, and boxes no longer fill my living room. What better time to take a break and share a few of the things that are inspiring me this week?

1. J.D. Salinger

I’ve been reading Nine Stories, a collection of short stories by J.D. Salinger. His stories are so rich and compelling, but from the standpoint of technique, they are full of genius, as well. Sadly, Salinger passed away last week. Read the write-up in the New York Times here.
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Melanie Sklarz, January 2010

Like most years, I decided to start 2010 by dedicating the year to becoming more creative. Usually, my dedication ends up occurring in not so everyday inspirational spurts. I hope this year will be different. I hope my creativity remains constant and in the forefront of everything I do.

So how am I going to manage to pull off this feat? By learning to be everyday creative by following Eric Maisel’s The Creativity Book: A Year’s Worth of Inspiration and Guidance. Yes, that’s a year’s worth of dedication!

I first encountered creativity coach extraordinaire, Eric Maisel’s work when I signed up for his Intro to Creativity Coaching online course five years ago. At the time, I was working as a museum educator, where I was focusing on everyone else’s creativity but my own. The course not only taught me how to empower other creatives but how to focus on my own creativity.
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Over the next two days, my husband Chris and I will be packing up our moving truck, loading up our two dogs, and making the (relatively short) trek to Nashville, Tennessee. We successfully rented out our house in Arkansas, and we’ve signed a six month lease for an apartment near Vanderbilt.

We have no idea what lies ahead.

Photo by jacobaaron, Flickr.
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Herbie Hancock is an incredibly talented jazz musician. Watch the video to hear his “all-star set” at TED 2009. Tweet This Post… Continue Reading

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Kevin Kaiser posted this video on his blog last Friday. It is so on the mark, so I asked him for permission to post it here. I hope you’ll take two and a half minutes out of your day to watch it. You’ll leave more inspired and ready to tackle the next thing. (You probably … Continue Reading

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