by Cali Bird | Sep 28, 2018 | Fame and Success, Fear and Procrastination, Food for thought
It is over 30 years since I graduated as a music student. My final year was such a painful experience that I thought I would never play again. A big chunk of the final mark was awarded to our degree recital. I was a flautist and had been preparing for the recital for...
by Cali Bird | Jul 24, 2018 | Being gentle, Creating with a day job, Fame and Success, Food for thought
You have a job and a family – and a passion for your creative project. You squeeze your creative activity into whatever gap you can find in your schedule whether that is on the train, on the toilet or when everyone else is watching Netflix. You forego social plans and...
by Cali Bird | Jun 19, 2018 | Being gentle, Creating with a day job, Fame and Success, Food for thought
I’ve been blogging consistently for two years now. Today I would like to share the three most important lessons I have learned in that time about creativity. Lesson 1: you can only control the inputs not the output I had been writing on Medium for a couple of months...
by Cali Bird | Jun 4, 2018 | Being gentle, Creating with a day job, Fame and Success, Fear and Procrastination, Food for thought
Have you ever had a project that felt so impossible that you just want to give up? You are so despondent that you no longer care about all the effort you have put in. Perhaps it hasn’t panned out the way you wanted it to, or it has taken much longer than you thought....
by Cali Bird | Apr 26, 2018 | Creating with a day job, Fame and Success
This week I am very pleased to welcome Philip Whiteley to the Meet The Artist series. Philip is a seasoned writer whose day job is in corporate writing and ghost-writing. On the side he also writes novels. Despite being a professional writer he spent seventeen years...
by Cali Bird | Mar 7, 2018 | Creating with a day job, Fame and Success, Fear and Procrastination, Food for thought
One of the common problems I see in would-be creatives is that they are waiting for someone else to give them permission to create. This is not always obvious. For example you might be waiting for someone to publish your book to give you permission to be a “proper”...
