Gail McMeekin

Ideaphoria is an important aspect of creativity, but originality, flexibility, and elaboration are important too. The ideaphoria part is often about word association, fantasy, storytelling, and analogies, linking unrelated things.

The best time management strategy in the world is letting go of fantasies and working within your own desired paradigm.

To me, success is living on your own terms, being who you truly are, being your authentic self. I know that the standard definition of success means a high paying, prestigious job, the perfect marriage, a beautiful home—the American Dream, I guess. But that's not for me. I need freedom, independence, and a series of creative projects to work on in order to be happy.

I see my success as moving forward each day as a spiritual being having an earthly experience. I believe that this life is extremely important.

Pearl's love affair with her piano and its possibilities reminds us all that expressing love through our creative work is a peak experience of life.

Highly creative women often have special aptitudes that give rise to creative intelligence, a superior ability for innovative thinking and application. In today's marketplace, our ability to think differently about problems and solve them with original and novel solutions is a key to success.

The creative process demands that, like Susan, you are willing to step into the unknown and see what happens.

To facilitate the new, it helps to clear away the past. Think back to any regrets you have about lost opportunities.

You need to make peace with these cast-off dreams. What can you learn from your mistakes? Rose learned that she hadn't been ready until recently to write her play. her vision just became vivid enough for her to tell the story, so she was able to release her regrets.

Figure out what solutions will most help your fear to stay in the background, and use them.