There is something you want to create
It may be work you want to make, an idea you want to bring to life, a business you want to grow, a problem you want to solve, or a completely new direction you haven't imagined yet.
Maybe you've already accomplished a great deal. And still, you feel the pull of what's next, the desire to explore further, create something original, make a meaningful contribution, or simply see how far you can go.
That drive to create is profoundly human.
We have an extraordinary capacity to imagine what doesn't yet exist, see something in a completely new way, experience an insight we couldn't have predicted, and create something that wasn't there before.
And yet we don't always understand or trust that capacity.
We can get caught in too many ideas, overthink which direction to take, question whether an idea is good enough, lose momentum, or mistake a period of uncertainty for evidence that something has gone wrong.
But what if those experiences don't mean what you've assumed they mean?
A moment of doubt doesn't tell you what you're capable of. Not knowing what to do next doesn't mean you're stuck. And feeling disconnected from your creativity doesn't mean your creative capacity has disappeared. It's just not true.
What if your creative potential has been there all along?
Your experience of your creativity can change moment to moment. Your capacity to create does not.
Understanding more about that capacity, and how the mind is designed to work, changes the way you create, navigate uncertainty, make decisions and move forward..
You begin to discover more of what you're already capable of—and put it to work.
Understanding the Mind that creates
Every idea, invention, work of art, business, story, solution, anything that wasn't here before and astonishingly now is, begins in the same place.
It begins within the extraordinary human capacity to create.
We use it all the time. We couldn't function without it. And yet, for something so fundamental to being human, we know surprisingly little about how it actually works.
Instead, we tend to look everywhere else.
We look for the right conditions. More time. More confidence. More motivation. Divine Inspiration. A better idea. A better process. Being a better person. On and on and on.
We read books about creativity, develop strategies, learn techniques, try to become more focused, productive, disciplined.
All of which can be useful... but often exhausting.
But what if we're looking in the wrong direction?
How is it that we're so busy trying to improve creativity and so incurious about the thing actually doing the creating?
What if, before trying to get better at creativity, we became more curious about the mind that's doing the creating?
That's getting to the heart of things. It's getting to the source material.
Working With Me
Working with me is a little like opening a good book.
You begin with a sentence, then a paragraph, then your curiosity leads to questions, and you find yourself somewhere you hadn't expected. That's usually when things get interesting.
I'm not leading you toward an answer I've already decided you should find. I'm interested in the question neither of us knows the answer to yet—the one that opens the door to fresh thought, insight and possibilities you couldn't see before.
Because if we already know exactly where we're going, we're probably not creating anything new. And that's why we're here, isn't it?
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“Linda is a master in connecting. I quickly came closer to who I am and delighting in fresh thinking. Her presence, humor, and ‘getting-me’ helped me lighten up and reconnect with the joy in creating. A delight to work with. She is a true professional.”
Regula Mader - Artist - Switzerland
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What do you want to create next?
Maybe you know exactly what it is. Maybe you have five ideas and can't decide which one deserves your attention. Maybe you don't know yet.
Good. We have something to talk about.
Bring me the idea, the question, the project, the problem—or the great big unknown.
We'll start there and see where the conversation takes us.
