Michelangelo, when asked about his sculpture David, said he just chipped away all the parts that weren't David. I see that as a great model for living the Creative Life - chipping away all the irrelevancies while shaping and forming what is most alive for us into being.

It requires self knowledge, introspection, presence, conscious attention to what we are spending our time doing, consciously choosing what we want to engage and create, and letting go of the things, beliefs, ideas, commitments, and choices which don't support that. Sounds easier that it is, but it IS there for us...in our ability to have self awareness and make choices, no matter what our current circumstances.

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1.  Creative magic emerges from the spaces in between.
2.  The same rules that applied for a static, conformity-based workplace
     don't work as foundations for a dynamic, alive, creative workplace.
3.  When we leave our socialized beliefs and enter the juicy, messy
     territory of our inner resourcefulness, we discover our true voice.
4.  Creative Leaders facilitate meaning, creativity, and contribution of those they serve. 
5.  Old paradigm: "failure" as binary end (pass/fail, right/wrong).
     New: an iteration - an invitation to learn, modify, evolve.
6.  Creative Leaders welcome, inspire, and awaken the Creative Leadership in those
     they lead/serve.
7.  Creativity contains the dynamic tension of seeming opposites -
     sometimes working harmoniously through us, sometimes in struggle.
8.  Living an expressed creative life contains the balance between structure & flow,
     action & reflection, focused activity & emergence.
9.  The more we consciously engage our innate creativity the more connections
     we make & the more opportunities we cultivate.
10. Our creative core is larger than our training or beliefs, & is accessible anytime.
      When we create we're more connected to the flow of life.
11. Best thing about living the Creative Life - you get to define what that means
      for yourself!
12. Our paradoxical relationship to the unknown: Reptilian brain fears it, protects
      from threats. Frontal lobe of neocortex thrives on it, and creates with it.
13. In the creative process, mistakes are awareness lessons. They strengthen
      knowledge & resolve, & become invitations to create something new.
14. It takes time to hear the subtleties of the language of our creative voice.
      Once we learn its language, we begin to trust it.
15. Noticing patterns you've discovered as a result of working your purpose gives you
      an inner authority that's not dependent on what others think.
16. Serving something larger than ourselves is naturally embedded in our purpose,
      often requiring us to expand our mental framework to see it.
17. Living our unique purpose includes being conscious of to what we say YES and to
      what we say NO on a daily basis.
18. Purpose + your unique creativity + serving a greater good = aligned purposefulness,
      generative for your self, others & the whole.
19. Through presence, any conversation can become a creative conversation.
20. People resist change that happens to them. They embrace change that happens
      by them. Create conditions that inspire change.
21. Be gentle with yourself in the places expectation does not meet reality...
     there is often unseen wisdom in that #emergence.
22. No one knows more about how to live YOUR life than you. The more you know the real
      YOU, the more power you have to craft/unfold your unique, thriving life.
23. A gift of being present is it reduces efforting. To live from presence, however,
      takes some work.
24. In presence, choices and options expand. In planning, they narrow.#bothand
      By being present, planning becomes purposeful.
25. divergence, emergence, convergence, breaking patterns (not necessarily in that order)
     #creativeprocess