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Goal Setting for Creative People

How To Get Results and Stay Creative This is a relatively short but post but it will make a BIG difference to your life if you act on it. It’s going to walk you through a simple but effective process of goal setting that will help you to get a big picture overview of your life or creative project, start to refine a VISION that keeps your passion ignited, and to make sure that the things you’re doing are actually REAL to you. A lot of creative people hate setting goals because it makes them feel ...

The Veiled Veil: How to Escape the Matrix

How to escape the Matrix.

The Black Rose: “Gimme Something Real or GTFO”

Your life is a garden and you can CHOOSE if it's filled with Weeds or Roses.

The Loop: What You Have Now Is What You Once Wanted (Whether You Know It Or Not)

You can change your life by understanding the cycles you're caught up in.

The Faces of Humanity: How We’re All Made Up of Different Versions of the Same Person

Intro There’s a (pretty) famous Japanese proverb that talks about how we all have 3 faces.  It goes like this: “The first face, you show to the world. The second face, you show to your close friends, and your family. The third face, you never show anyone.” I think it’s true, but – actually – we can take it a little deeper by exploring how there are more than three faces that the average person ‘has’ and also where they  come from and why. Perhaps even more importantly than raising our AWARENESS ...

Unreal Personality Defects and Types (How to Spot and Handle Annoying People)

A huge list of personality defects and how to handle them.

The Cost: Are You Prepared to Pay the Price for Your Real Life?

The truth isn't that you "don't have a choice" but that you "don't want to pay the cost". 

The Label Trap: Is Attaching to Labels Holding You Back from Real Life and Your True Potential?

One of the biggest barriers to getting the life we want and becoming the person we need to be to get there is labelling ourselves.

How to Stop NEEDING to Be Liked by Others (Walking Away from Life’s Great Popularity Contest)

You don't need to be liked; you need to be real. The rest will fall into place.

The Secrets of Extreme Creativity (How to Unblock and then Nurture your Creativity Whilst Keeping it Real).

If you find yourself suffering from creative ‘blocks’, lacking creative motivation, or wanting to reawaken a slumbering creative drive then this article is for you. Perhaps you’re frustrated because your creative work has become stale? Or maybe it hasn’t become…anything because it simply hasn’t even got started? Maybe you’re starting to doubt yourself and wonder if you’ve ‘lost’ whatever creative talent you might have had? Or maybe you’re just starting to get bored of your own work because it’s ...