by jlouden | Oct 20, 2011 | Favorites, Uncategorized
Today’s post is by my friend Anne DeMarsay. We met in 1992 when she attended one of my very first workshops. She is amazing. She allowed me to share her take on Gil Scott-Heron’s famous poem and wanted you to read this first: Gil Scott-Heron wrote his song...
by jlouden | Jun 15, 2010 | Uncategorized
Us creative types often feel like misfits, outsiders, weirdos. Our whole entire lives. Because we feel this way, we might decide that unless we do something with our misfitness – preferably something brilliant – all of our suffering and not fitting in has...
by jlouden | May 17, 2010 | Uncategorized
For a few years now, I’ve been curious about the hounds of more, more, more! The hounds of more bay: Try this! Learn this! Write this! Take this retreat! Go here! More, more, more!” They’re the voices that yip at me, and my clients and readers, until we want to...
by jlouden | May 13, 2010 | Uncategorized
My coach Michele asked me the hottest question yesterday (as in put my butt in the hot seat): If you didn’t suck for doing it the way you have been doing it, what could you lightly choose to do differently? Before you think Michele is a terrible meanie, she was...
by jlouden | Jan 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
There is SUCH a focus these days on being authentic and being yourself – on expressing your creative truth – in business, in creative pursuits, and in your relationships. If I read another blog post that tells me to just “be myself,” I might...
