Kelly Pratt, Creative Life Coach

Category Archives: Social & Essential Self

Social & Essential Self

Cool & Inspired Sorta Jazz

I love lyrics. They inspire me..So I wasn’t surprised at all when today as I was working on some biz offerings, lyrics from a 1979 song from came floating into my head… The line completely embodied the feeling that I go for when I’m working with my clients every day…

The Gift from the Sea that Keeps on Giving OR Why My Social Self is taking Rumba Lessons

This is where the light bulb went on! I have to be able to dance a solo before I’ll ever be a great partner in a pas de deux! …my Social Self and Essential Self have learn to “dance well together.” Martha Beck introduces the Essential and Social selves in Finding Your Own North Star and expands on the concept in Steering by Starlight.

I Knew it! Permission to Doodle!

Notes from Christine Kane's Uplevel Your Life intro class

Survey Says!!! Doodlers retain more than non-doodlers! HA! I always had a feeling those kids who looked so studious staring straight ahead in class with that rapt look on their faces were actually far far away…. And that’s exactly what the studies are showing. (right: my notes and doodles from an introductory Uplevel Your Life…

Electricity sparks inside of me, and I’m Free

“Billy, how do you FEEL when you dance?”

His response, I think, is universal for anyone who is creative… or wishes to be. It’s the feeling we’re striving for. Once you’ve been there you want to feel it again.

I’d love to hear how you feel when you’re in your creative stride. Do you feel electricity?

Shoes

Sometimes you just have to listen to Dr. Seuss You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. and YOU are the guy who’ll decide where to go. — Oh, the Places You’ll Go!…