Category Archives: Creativity Boosts

Creativity Boost: Writing Practice

Sarah White October 17, 2016 Creativity Boosts1 Comment

I know not everyone who reads this site is a writer, and I know that writing is not the only way to be creative, but establishing a writing practice is an act of creativity that I think can help a lot of people be more creative, even if they don’t …

Creativity Boost: Start Small

Sarah White October 10, 2016 Creativity Boosts1 Comment

I’d guess I’m not alone in feeling like there is no season that is not busy anymore. It used to feel like things calmed down every now and then, like there was not quite so much clamoring for attention all the time. But it’s been about five months now that …

Creativity Boost: Pay Attention

Sarah White October 3, 2016 Creativity Boosts / Life2 Comments

I’m pretty sure at some point when Jackie and I were walking around Santa Fe we talked about wondering if people there ever get tired of or stop noticing the view. I wondered the same thing when I lived in coastal Massachusetts for a summer. Do people who grow up …

Creativity Boost: Honor the Transition

Sarah White September 26, 2016 Creativity Boosts / Life2 Comments

I spent the last five days at a writing and meditation retreat in Santa Fe, which was amazing and wonderful and inspiring and tiring. I spent most of yesterday trying to get home after storms in Dallas messed up air travel for the whole center of the country and beyond, …

Creativity Boost: Do Something Scary

Sarah White September 19, 2016 Creativity Boosts2 Comments

Last week I shared my first creativity boost/challenge in a while, complete with a Facebook Live video (which you can see at the end of that post if you want to). It was all about giving things up to give yourself time and space to be more creative. How it …

Creativity Boost: What Can You Give Up?

Sarah White September 12, 2016 Creativity Boosts3 Comments

If you don’t follow me on Instagram or Twitter you might have missed that I spent the weekend at a blogger conference, which is always nice to do because I see old friends and get inspired about what direction I want my blog, and my life, to go. Now that …

Make Bad Art — It’s Good for You

Sarah White July 12, 2016 Art / Creativity Boosts2 Comments

I really hate the idea of calling anything you make “bad.” Things might not turn out the way you planned (so often) but that doesn’t mean it’s bad, just that it turned out differently. But “bad art” is what a lot of people feel like they make, those people who …