First time I found out about stress and that a certain amount of stress is actually good at the end of high school. Nowadays you can hear “It’s stressing me out” from a 7-year-old. Did life get stressful? Or did we create stress for ourselves on an everyday basis when we choose to do more than we can, should, need or want?

You don’t want to realise 10 years later that if you started when you thought you were old (today), you’d already be doing/having/being who you wanted to be.

Can creatives be productive? Out of all the tools I’ve learned since 2008 when I started in the online world, these five tools apply to creatives.

Something that can help if you’re not feeling that great today. Everyone is different but some things can work for everyone.

Once you start your creative project, you want to finish it. Imagine how it would feel to see your film on the screen, to hold your book or hang your painting on the wall. It feels amazing, doesn’t it?

If you’re reading this, you have a creative project inside of you. You may have just come up with an idea, but you’ve likely been thinking about it for a while. Here are 10 practical steps to get you started.

When we enjoy our business or what we do, it’s amazing, right? We’re in the flow, time flies and we feel extremely satisfied by the end of the day.

But what if this feeling is gone?

Can you have a work-life balance? And what work-life balance really is? Some argue that it is a myth. But what if it can be a reality?

If you’re reading this, you’re a creative person at heart. Otherwise, you wouldn’t even wonder how to bring creativity into your life.

Perhaps you read Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert or The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron and understand that creativity comes in a different form.

It was then I took a book with me that I was given by my friend. First chapter was on gratitude. I thought I had nothing to be grateful for.

What do you imagine when someone says: live a simple life? There was a time when I imagined a woman living in the countryside who had to get up every morning…

It’s in human nature wanting to feel good. 

What if joy can be more intentional than an accidental event? Here is how.

Do you have time for good things? Or do you focus on what’s not working in your life? We often do the latter. Here is how to change that.

If you’re trying to have a business purely because you want to make money, and then later, you would do what you REALLY want to be doing - stop.

In the world of constant goal setting, we often forget why we do what we do in the first place. We forget that practice is what brings us to achieving our goals while also adding joy to our lives.

Christmas time can be exactly what you want it to be. These are five questions to ask yourself.

Do you write your goals at the beginning of the year and make some plans? These four simple steps will help you to feel accomplished this year. And if you want to finish something, there is a secret to how to do it.

What would you do if you had two takes on the same day? Last month I experienced a 44-hour day and (almost) 8-day week when we flew from Sydney to Rarotonga.

Often we don’t want to start because we don’t know how to get where we want to be. Is there a point to even begin? What if we fail and never get where we want? But what if the result is a thousand times better than we can imagine?

Join me in celebrating the “birthday” of my new book— A Tiny Book of Joy: 10 Ways to Bring More Joy and Creativity to Your Day - Every Day