#HighlySensitivePeople #Introverts: Your sensitivity is your strength. So use it!

Your Sensitivity Is Your Strength. So use it! A Girl Scout once sold 117 boxes of cookies outside a marijuana dispensary. Some called it controversial. I call it brilliant. She went where people were hungry—literally—and reaped the reward. It reminded me of when my daughter set a goal to sell 150 boxes. Instead of following the crowd around our suburban neighborhood (where houses were far apart and competition was high), I suggested something different. We drove to the next town. Condos. Closer together. Less walking. More doors. Fewer competition. She hit her goal in record time. That day, she learned two big lessons:*  Think differently.*  Work smarter. Highly sensitive people like us naturally see creative angles others miss. But do we trust that gift? The…

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#HighlySensitivePeople: Do You Have Enough Alone Time?

Do you have enough alone time? A common theme among us highly sensitive people is that we enjoy being by ourselves. It allows us to have quiet time, which can sometimes be essential to re-charging our emotional and physical batteries and honing our creativity.

While alone time is a good thing and does help get our creative juices flowing, by no means does it mean that we have to be anti-social. (more…)

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Highly Sensitive People: Why Can’t You Write?

Many highly sensitive people as well as others would like to write a book. Why can’t you write? You may have a multitude of reasons why you feel that you can’t. I would guess that most of those reason’s are self-imposed. Come on, let’s be honest…Isn’t this accurate?

You may think that you don’t have enough time, you’re emotionally or physically aren’t up to it,  you’re afraid of being judged, you feel that you don’t know how to write, my husband, wife, children, or pets, etc., won’t let me. Have I left anything out? (more…)

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Highly Sensitive People: Why Don’t You Satisfy Your Creative Urges?

Highly sensitive people are naturally very creative. Why is it that many of us don’t take the time to utilize and enjoy this natural resource? Perhaps irrational inhibitions stifle our creativity. Maybe we lack confidence in our abilities, but how will we know what we’re capable of unless we try?

Creativity requires patience and a willingness to work towards your vision. You can’t wait for inspiration to happen. You have to just start writing, painting, or whatever other creative endeavour that you have. I’m a writer. My real writing comes from my re-writing. I put words to paper and redo some words that I’ve done. Simple isn’t it? (more…)

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