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Creative flow irritatingly inconsistent?
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What if Star Wars didn’t happen Reader? I’m aware that Star Wars didn’t happen - that it’s not a film based on a true story. But what if George Lucas didn’t make the Star Wars films? Son#1 and I are watching Light & Magic, a Disney+ series about the history of George Lucas’ special effects production company, and at the end of an episode Son#1 had a question for me: If George Lucas hadn’t made the Star Wars films, would the special effects ideas and progress that film generated have been lost forever, or been delayed? What would films be like now if Star Wars had never happened? We talked about where ideas come from, and where they go, and what happens if they aren’t brought to life. Which reminded me of Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic book, which I loved so much it made me cry. Which led me to this 16-year-old TED Talk by Elizabeth (with 5 million views) that covers a lot of the core themes from the book - Your elusive creative genius - well worth a watch if your creative flow comes and goes, and you wonder why you haven’t tamed it yet. Before you go and watch that, help me choose where to direct my creative genius. Which idea should I focus on first? P.S. I set this offer up, mentioned it once, then forgot about it 😬. Unjumbles are half-price if you buy on, or before, 30th April AND use the session before 31st May. Wanna borrow my brain for 20 minutes to help you talk through an idea, make a decision, or solve a problem? Book here. P.P.S. 🏆 More than a year since my last effort..... I published a new post on my Tiny Triumphs Substack: I re-covered the kitchen chairs. |
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You know how sometimes when you want to learn how to do a thing, it’s helpful to watch someone else do it, and even better if you can watch a replay in slow motion, Reader This newsletter is a copywriting-equivalent of a slo-mo action shot. I had an idea for a new free thing - blog post, video, PDF - I’m not sure yet, but a free thing. I know who it’s for, I know how it’s going to help them, and I know roughly what the content will include. So this morning, aided by coffee, I started playing...
Did you ever have a school science lesson with a Van de Graaff generator Reader? Or the more child-friendly static electricity demo of rubbing a balloon on your jumper and using it to make your hair stick on end? You know that slightly uncomfortable fizzy feeling when the air (or balloon) is ever so slightly charged? Sometimes, our business can feel like that. A situation, a decision, or an idea can feel uncomfortably charged, loaded, fizzy. And that can make it hard to choose between...
Feel like you have a lot of great ideas fighting for your attention, but you're rarely able to act on them Reader? Read this blog post if you’ve noticed that your new ideas seem very exciting, but quickly lose their appeal, so you start to doubt yourself making it hard to follow through and take action, especially when the next shiny new idea is already queued up inside your brain ready to force itself into your awareness. The New Idea Big Dipper "Laura makes taking action feel achievable and...