I was going to call this post “Defining Success” because to answer the question, “How can I be successful while being creative and doing what I love?” we need to define what success looks like. But as I thought about it, I realized I generally dislike the word “success.” For me, with my background in Human Resources, it carries corporate-ladder-climbing, creativity-restricting connotations. Really, what I want is a word more like “fulfillment” or “realization.” For creatives, what we are constantly reaching for is that elusive feeling of completion. By the way, if you missed my first posts in this Surviving Creativity series, take a minute to read through the introduction post, the one… Keep Reading

Sometimes I feel like creativity and productivity cannot peacefully coexist in my life. I can either get stuff done, or I can be creative, but put the two in a room together and they fight each other like brother and sister. However like all siblings, Creativity and Productivity need to learn to get along because they’re stuck with each other. Being creative without actually producing something is eventually pointless, and being productive without any sense of creativity becomes downright boring. So like most moms, I’m stuck with the job of getting the two to work out their differences, and hug and make up. We need to find a happy medium somewhere…. Keep Reading