Bright Sparks: Creative Practices to Light Your Way

Hi, this is Diana. Bright knowledge instants give you one thing you can do today to move your creativity ahead. And we are moving towards March 17, which is St. Patrick's Day. And this is a day when everybody is Irish. I was born in Ireland myself. I was born in Dublin, although I grew up all ove...

Hi, this is Diana. Bright knowledge instants give you one thing you can do today to move your creativity ahead. When we talk about creating and learning, the question of fear comes up very, very often, many times a day. And how can we tell the difference between fear that really is a good warning...

Hi, this is Diana. Bright knowledge instance give you one thing you can do today to move your creativity ahead. And today is Valentine's Day. It's a day that we think a lot about love and the heart and following our heart. There's a lot of research out there now that shows the heart has a powerfu...

Hi, this is Diana. Bright knowledge instants give you one thing that you can do today to move your creativity ahead. And when I look back on history, which is always a great source of inspiration to me for learning and creativity, I notice a big divide in framing of how we see history. There's ki...

Hi, this is Diana. Bright knowledge instants give you one thing you can do today to move your creativity ahead. And throughout January, we've been working on decluttering both our space and our mind. So now I'd like to switch gears and talk about energy management. How to have our energy flow in ...

Hi, this is Diana. Bright knowledge instants give you one thing you can do today to move your creativity ahead. And I have found in learning and creativity, which are so connected, a major factor in feeling engaged and successful in those is pattern recognition. So pattern recognition is being ab...

Hi, this is Diana. Bright knowledge instants give you one thing you can do today to move your creativity ahead. And right now we're in January. A lot of decluttering is going on. What I would love to do is invite you to declutter negative self talk. Negative self talk is one of those things that ...

You know the stereotype of the lone artist, toiling away in their atelier. I love researching the bios of great artists, and here’s what I’ve found: none of them, even the most “lone wolf” ones, were without a Community. Yet cultivating Community can seem a confusing task: where to begin? Is it poss...

Energy, motivation and progress seem like different subjects. In fact they are fueled by one primal source: Inspiration!

Hi, this is Diana. Bright knowledge instants give you one thing you can do today to move your creativity ahead. And right now, I'm just about to head out to tango. I do Argenti...

“Resolutions” sound hard, a struggle, a big old slog. Because I believe in flow: grind fades as you create and engage more than ever. Yet with no target, how can you achieve your goals in our wide, wild world? I found that when I set resolutions as my target, I ended up resenting them. So they backf...