Creative Inspiration Articles - The Real Sam Bennett

Getting-Ready-to-Get-Ready Syndrome

The symptoms of Getting-Ready-to-Get-Ready syndrome include feeling like you can’t possibly move forward until you lose ten pounds, get a degree, receive permission, know the right people, have enough money, get more experience, pay your dues, or obtain the right...

Hot Pink Ghosts

Another block to creativity are the ghosts of failures past. A client once told me, “I’m afraid to get my work out there because the last time I tried, I was sabotaged and betrayed by a group of women I had trusted.” I said, “I’m so sorry that happened. That must have...

Does It Have to Be You?

Exercise: 1. Write down all the activities that you typically do in a day, such as: drive in the car pool do laundry pay bills make phone calls write work out get the mail read work with clients play with the kids plan upcoming travel coordinate volunteers for charity...

Ode To The Drama Teacher

Ode To The Drama Teacher And as you stand there: Aghast Because we’re three days from Opening Night and Ado Annie still doesn’t know her lines and The Dream Ballet is a Nightmare and The Light Board Op just got Detention… Let us now praise You. You, the Permanently...

Where Will I Think to Look for This Later?

Asking yourself the question “Where will I think to look for this?” might be the single greatest organizational step you can take. Asking yourself this question puts you in a state of awareness about your organizational style and creates an automatic mnemonic so you...

An Ode To The Overwhelmed

And as you stand there Late again Because you forgot to allow time to park And the elevator was slow And you left 10 minutes late to begin with With your shoes that pinch And your pants that are a little too small Since you started eating white bread again And as you...

There’s No Such Thing as a Single-Discipline Creative

I’ve never met a single-discipline creative. Every creative person I know says things like, “Well, I’m a writer. But I also sing in a choir and play bass guitar and drums and embroider and do needlepoint, but I don’t do counted cross-stitch anymore, and of course...

A Prayer for Hoping against Hope

And as you stand there Hands clasped in front of you Eyes downcast Concealing the disobedient pounding of your heart It dawns on you: Here we go again. And while you no longer allow yourself the long, elaborate daydreams in which everything works out perfectly, You...