I am doing Meredith Lewis (@dangerousmere) creative challenge and today’s creative prompt is “What Happens Next?” After spending the day walking through a lush forest near my home, I began to feel like myself again. I felt the cool, clean damp air enter my lungs and be expelled with every breath taking away the tension […]
Creative Challenge – Day 6
I am doing Meredith Lewis creative challenge and today’s creative prompt is “Who’s Future Am I Living?” I don’t know where I am. I look around me and I see a room. There is so much light. I look around and see a chair, a cat quietly dozing on a lounge. Books, lots of books. […]
Creative Challenge – Day 5
I am doing Meredith Lewis (@dangerousmere) daily advent creative challenge and for today it’s “Write as if these are the last days.” How would you write as if the history of your civilisation – or even your species – was coming to an end? I have said all my goodbyes to friends and families. They were […]
Day 4 – Creative Challenge
I’m doing Meredith Lewis (@dangerousmere) Advent Calendar of Creative Prompts this month and today’s creative prompt is to write about something from my wardrobe that will give me a superpower. What would I like to turn into? Who would I be? Where would I go? For those who may know me, I like to dress […]
Day 3 – Creative Challenge
I’m doing Meredith Lewis December Advent Creative Calendar challenge. Today’s creative prompt is: “Well, I would put a question to you. What’s the difference between you and your great-great-great-grandfather? What makes you different? I think the answer is this: what you take for granted.” – David Mitchell in Light the dark: Writers on creativity, inspiration, and the artistic […]
Creative Prompts – Day 2
I am doing Meredith Lewis (@dangerousmere) daily creative prompts as part of her Advent Calendar for Creativity. Today’s creative prompt is to imagine a story when presented with a picture as part of the Lazy Assumption Game. The first story is to make up something of the first impressions you got with this photo; and […]
When Subscriber Numbers Get Scary
One of the things I’m doing of late is getting ready slowly to remove myself completely from social media (namely Twitter and LinkedIn). At this stage, I’m unsure how it’s going to happen but what I do know is that I think I’ve pretty much reached my limit when it comes to learning how to […]
What Did You Miss in May?
Blog Posts Alone in My Car (on Digital Minimalism) Time to Get Serious About the Next Phase (of My Life) Loving the Crafty Side of My Network (on preferring to read about the lifelong learning pursuits of my personal network rather than anything to do with their actual work because it’s what they do outside […]
Bring the Outside In with Creative Flair
Ah, Angel and Dick Strawbridge, what HAVE you done to me? via GIPHY You see the thing is that, I’ve been recently OBSESSED by this show called Chateau in The Country where British couple Dick and Angel Strawbridge buy a dilapidated chateau and then over the years, renovate it. I wrote it in my recent […]
Loving the Crafty Side to My Network
I’ve been watching a show on Foxtel called Chateau in the Country, where two English people, Angel and Dick buy a dilapidated chateau in France and over the years, renovate it. Dick is an engineer, a big bear of a man who has the knack and know-how to repair, fix and create things from junk […]
The Artist’s Way
Have you heard of “The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity” by Julia Cameron? The book was published many years ago in 1991 and was written for people who may have experienced a block in their creativity. It’s a 12-week program that enables the reader to rediscover their creativity and curiosity through reflection […]
Creativity During Isolation
Despite this time being difficult for many, one of the things I have loved to watch online is the explosion of new people who are now sharing more than ever. Both on LinkedIn and Twitter, my timeline now is abundant with different voices with content that is being shared and retweeted of not just […]
Frank Lloyd Wright and Envy
Yesterday I was watching a Snap story from one of the people I follow on Snapchat and he was in Arizona at Taliesin West, the site of America’s most famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright had his home and which is now a school of architecture. I’ve always been fascinated with architecture and at one stage […]
Art Imitating Life or the Other Way Around?
For the last six or so months, I’ve been getting out of my comfort zone – in a BIG way by undertaking creative projects. Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the Cultivating Creativity in the Workplace workshop facilitated by someone who I’ve admired for a long time, Amy Burvall. (@amyburvall). Amy is an […]
The Wonder of Working with Creative Teams
I’m working on a fake news channel on Snapchat and here I put some reflections down on the value I’m receiving from being part of this creative team. The Wonder of Creating with Teams This blog post by Helen Blunden was written in Melbourne, Australia and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Never […]
This Month’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning February 2018
Here is this month’s snap stories of personal learning for February 2018. Every week and every month, I like to review these videos to see what I have been doing every day and it’s a great way to capture all your work and learning – and also to see your progress towards your goals. I […]
What Business Can Learn From Fake News
What happens when a group of people who have never met in real life, create a fake news channel that inspires people around the world? The idea came from content creator, Cameron Murray (@CammySutra6) from Glasgow who, tired of the fake news and influencers in social media content marketing took matters in his own hands to create […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 7 August
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning commencing 7 August 2017. Monday 7 August 2017 In this personal learning snapstory, I was inspired by the story of Rachmaninov, a Russian composer whose first symphony was a public flop. The result was that he then went into depression for four years because he felt […]