So why are we not using them more to our advantage, and how can we change that? Let’s find a creative way of looking at the struggles we have by readjusting ourselves to normal parameters – as if that is all there is to it! There are many historical examples of serious disorders that proved…
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Input-process-output theory of metamorphosis – how creativity transforms you into something new, part 1
Sometimes I feel unidentifiable. Everything I want to say has already been said. What I imagine and want to design has already been designed. What I think has been thought before. They all come with a small pang of sadness and disillusion. Luckily – I think because of my training in a creative field –…
Presence of mind is a path to creative living
Seventeen years old and straight out of university admission exams, I embarked with my friends on a well-deserved trip to the Black Sea. Not knowing if I got accepted did not hinder my joy of being done with it all. It’s been excruciating to prepare with many hours of late-night studying throughout the entire highschool. …
On reinvention and true innovation
When Stephen King wrote, “Sooner or later, everything old is new again,” he captured one of the most useful starting points of creative thinking: the past. To the general public, reinvention and novelty are tricky because true originality is seldom welcomed. Although most of us long for something new, we tend to associate an idealized…
Focus – Personal growth one step at a time, Part 2, FORGETTING | CREATIVITY | EXPLORATION
Continuing the path of those before me, I put myself first and through that, I make my home a better place. 🧞♀️xA. FOCUS, part 2 FORGETTING “There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.” Marie Antoinette Think about all the first experiences of youth. The simple ones. The ones that now, you don’t even…
Top 5 tips on how to be emotionally resourceful as a self-employed interior designer
The lure of beauty If you’ve ever considered an interior design career, most likely you’ve been lured by beautiful pictures, lavish homes, all kinds of exquisite interiors, fashionable people and pretty things in general. It is a field perceived as glamorous and hip, innovative and happy. And it is all true. If you’re like…
Retrospective 2020: A look the top 12 stories that made my year
📽📌There is no countdown to the new year if you don’t tally up the old year!✓ There is incredible satisfaction in gratitude, especially the kind of gratitude one feels for things well done. It is not a polished gem that sparkles in your face, that you see at every turn or carry proudly in your…
As Toronto braces for another lockdown, beware of loneliness and learn to overcome it
Many of us watch our parents getting old and seeping into a pool of loneliness. To us, it seems restful and peaceful at first, a kind of relaxing mind-spa that we actually secretly long for when squished by the speed of the everyday. IT’S NOT OLD AGE The truth is that in those moments we…