Gail McMeekin

Ideaphoria is an important aspect of creativity, but originality, flexibility, and elaboration are important too. The ideaphoria part is often about word association, fantasy, storytelling, and analogies, linking unrelated things.

Your best security is to grow yourself. You need to follow a special path for creative success. It will reawaken that creative little girl who either got squelched or silenced or went out on the creative path with the wrong guidance and has been stumbling along

Yet fulfillment in life means knowing what we want while appreciating what we already have and having the self-worth to think independently and create a life that's original

The best time management strategy in the world is letting go of fantasies and working within your own desired paradigm.

The best time management strategy in the world is letting go of fantasies and working within your own desired paradigm

To me, success is living on your own terms, being who you truly are, being your authentic self

The best time management strategy in the world is letting go of fantasies and working within your own desired paradigm.

To me, success is living on your own terms, being who you truly are, being your authentic self. I know that the standard definition of success means a high paying, prestigious job, the perfect marriage, a beautiful home—the American Dream, I guess. But that's not for me. I need freedom, independence, and a series of creative projects to work on in order to be happy.

I see my success as moving forward each day as a spiritual being having an earthly experience. I believe that this life is extremely important.

Pearl's love affair with her piano and its possibilities reminds us all that expressing love through our creative work is a peak experience of life.