What if I told you that you never have to work another day in your life? Would you be interested? When you fight the right fit in a career, it no longer feels as work. You wake up every day excited about how you earn your living. This perfect harmonizing of your talents, skills, personality…

It is time to move on, move up and move out with a new mission. This guide is about taking charge of your destiny. Be the author of your life story. Its heroine. This guide will show you how to find, create and tell you unique story, and then how to earn a living doing…

Few people know what they want to be when they grow up, and even fewer creative people want to grow up. Maybe you won’t discover your true calling until you make some Heroine’s Journeys. Testdrives in your dreamjobs by exploring stories of heroines you are interested in. Meeting your rolemodels and interviewing them for the…

Success for a creative person can be tremendous. Not just in money, but in creative freedom. Look at the list of highest paid professionals – they are all people who don’t fit in any mold, but they are also people who used that fact to their benefit. You can do it, too, in your own…

Creativity and creative careers involve a whole brain story, an interaction between the left hemisphere of your brain (the detail-oriented, accountant side) and the right hemisphere (the big picture, artistic side). The right brain comes up with the ideas and the left brain implements them. Too much right brain and nothing gets done; too much…

Many studies have shown that the creative person is more intelligent and scores higher in tests than do lawyers and doctors. While nobody uses only their right brain or left brain, most creatives tend to rely heavily on their right brains – the source of their creativity. Because of that, many of the following statements…

Sometimes speaking without thinking, as in a brainstorming session, is perfectly acceptable. Sometimes creative heroines forget where brainstorming ends and real life begins, however.  Saying the first thing that comes into mind makes people uncomfortable. Creative heroines feel things more deeply than most other people do. It is trying to verbally communicate those feelings to…

Living in a left brained world is not easy when you operate in the creative way – that is the right brained way.  It is easy to feel trapped by a mortgage, car payments, a retirement plan. But going against your own nature, your instincts and your talents turns out to be the worst possible…

Nobody can motivate you. You must be self motivated to make it. In any career, you are the boss. If you don’t feel like working for weeks at a stretch, nobody will shoot you. But there is always a price. The creative heroine works well in a relaxed environment. That could be a casual corporate…

Judgmental people may complain about your short attention span, calling you scatterbrained, lazy, a slob, self-centered, cynical, impatient, and so on. It takes a toll on even the most secure, and some start believing it. Do not let that be you. Fight back. Remember that you are special – one of 2 percent of the…

When someone says to me, “Everything happens for a reason”, I want to say,  “Yes but is it your reason?”   Life is not an accident. Through careful choices and persistent planning, you can control what happens to you. That sounds boring, does it not? It is not. We are talking about your future. The…

When you are not sure about what you should be doing with your life, it can feel like you are in a free fall. For some, the rush of hurtling to the ground at terminal velocity is exhilarating. Some don’t even seem to realize that they don’t have anything (a parachute) to stop them from…