I was chosen to participate in Ignite San Diego a few weeks ago. What participants were required to do: Convey an inspirational message in five minutes with twenty slides that change every fifteen seconds whether you are ready or not.
For me it was figuring out how to belong somewhere when, as a sort of out-there creative person, I felt like I didn't fit in. Maybe you've felt like that too.
Here's that presentation. (excuse my granny underwear).
"Kaizen" means continuous improvement through small steps. Sometimes one tiny step is all you need to do to set not only a new action in motion, but a new way of feeling. Small steps are kind and gentle and the paradox is they often get us further than the leaps we think we are going to take but end up procrastinating, avoiding, or quitting because big steps often come with pressure and activate fear.
The "Muse" part of Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaching comes from my first book The Nine Modern Day Muses (and a Bodyguard) and my third book, The Muse is In: An Owner's Manual to Your Creativity. Powerful creative principles are in the guise of Muses to summon up a special kind of relationship with your creativity. The "Muses" I used on stage at Ignite San Diego were: Albert (Reframing a situation to create different results) and Audacity (self-explanatory).
What would change if you made a decision to think a different way?
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