How do you stare right at an open door and still fail to go through it? There are probably more than these two, but if you really want to miss fulfilling your creative purpose, there are two sure-fire ways to do it:
1. Fail to come out of your comfort zone.
A perfect example of this one can be seen when you look at students in school. When kids return to school to the next grade level, the curriculum is designed to usher them into new experiences and challenges they’ve never faced …

What seemed to be a somewhat corny exercise actually turned into a new and unique method of goal setting.
You may recall Part I of this project asked you to picture yourself at the age of eighty, then write a letter to your current self to reflect on great things in a long life.
The other part of the exercise had you to picture yourself at age eight and talk about what you like.
As promised, I followed this exercise myself and it was very eye opening and allowed me to list a …

 I came across the following exercise when I was reading a book called The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron.
Now, I’ve said it here before that I don’t agree with all of the things in the book, but it does have quite a few good practical exercises like the following that I think are cool:
This is a Time Traveling/ Goal Setting exercise:
1. Looking ahead, describe yourself at the age of eighty.
• What did you accomplish after the age of fifty that you enjoyed? Be specific.
Now, write down what your eighty …