Don’t Let The Limits Get You Down
I surprised my audience (and even myself) by talking about the Mona Lisa in response to a question following a keynote to a group of project managers. The keynote was about one of my favorite themes – the potential for any work to be approached as an art form, with accompanying opportunities for personal fulfillment and creative expression. A man in the audience respectfully asked about the difficulties of finding such luxuries as fulfillment and creative expression within tight budgets, limited job opportunities, and relentless pressure for measurable bottom-line results. It is a familiar refrain today. As I listened to the question, the image of DaVinci’s masterpiece floated across my mind.
7 Reminders About Writing A Book
[I dug this out of the cobwebs on an archived blog of mine because I am about to launch a new book project and I wanted to remind myself of its contents. It still rings true so I am sharing it here with minor changes.]
The challenge of writing a book is as much about the process as it is about the content: maybe more. I’m a process kind of person, so I pay a lot of attention to it.
Places That Stir Creative Juices
Geetali’s excellent blog, Shimla Gallimaufry, conjures thoughts of places I have visited that had a very positive effect on my creative energy. Geetali writes about and photographs the town of Shimla, where she lives. Shimla lies in the northwest corner of India, with Kashmir and China to the north, Pakistan to the west, and Nepal to the east. That grayish mass on the map below, stretching from the north to the east and south depicts the Himalayan Mountains. The red “A” marks Shimla.
The Value of Playin’ Around
Want to write a blog post, an article, or maybe a book? Or tile the bathroom floor? In many and diverse enterprises it is often a good idea to try things out without preconceiving where it might lead; to just start playin’ around.
I was playin’ around with the images I captured at Dale Chihuly’s glass installation in the Desert Botanical Garden (see previous post), looking for a new computer desktop background. My first temptation was to skip over images that I didn’t like, but I didn’t do that because…well, who knows why I didn’t. This is one of the images that I was tempted to skip:
