Sometimes I need a kick in the bottom to get me back on to the creative track. Having self-declared 2013 my “Year of Creativity,” I have collected some inspiring words and nuggets (or beans, if you will) of wisdom to ponder and to fuel the process. Once in a while, I’ll share those words here…

At the beginning of the year, I was encouraged to write down one attribute that described who I was, and two attributes that I wanted to grow over the next twelve months. I like the following quote as it incorporates two of the three attributes I wrote down: “creative” and “courage.”

I am reminded that anything worth doing often requires us to first take a step and act beyond what we would normally be comfortable doing; and being creative is just one of those things.