The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women

We have much more power to manage our lives when we give ourselves permission to subtract things we don't enjoy.

Fill your thoughts with what you want to create, and you will have it.
—SANAYA ROMAN, WRITER

If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.
—SHIRLEY HUFSTEDLER, LAWYER

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.
—DOROTHEA BRANDE, WRITER

Negative life choices steal your peace of mind and eclipse your well-being.

The first step in starting an enterprise is to clear the space for it, or till the ground. This clearing process is a must. . . . We like to think just forging ahead is going to be enough to start, but when you run into gnarled old roots where your new plants need to grow, you've got problems.
—BARRIE DOLNICK, SIMPLE SPELLS FOR SUCCESS

You make changes because you love yourself and you want to improve the quality of your life.

Loving your creative work eliminates a lot of stress and strain and the need for what I call “work anti-dotes,” which are things you need to do to recover from work that poisons your soul.

To be fully creative, you must notice what fuels your creative energy and what drains it, and map out your life accordingly.

Desperation is familiar territory for most of us at some point in our lives, but people tend to recoil from it. So if we telegraph that we'll do or take anything, our work may be less valued by others. As C. C. H. says, if we show people that we have no place else to go, they may think twice about wanting us.