What Are You Manifesting?
You build your creative path one mindful stone at a time. Sometimes you will have to build your path over difficult terrain, and each stone must be manifested from the sand. As we sometimes do when we listen to our favorite Youtubers for inspiration, yesterday we wrote down an interestingContinue Reading
How To Find The Balance Between Consuming and Creating?
Confession: I consume great quantities of content on a daily basis…pretty normal. But after a while, I realized, instead of feeling energized and inspired, I was feeling drained and exhausted! How am I working on striking the right balance between consuming content and creating? Doing a better job at keepingContinue Reading
Self-Publishing Through CreateSpace
Confession: I needed an easy, seamless way to create my first novel, to get myself over that hurdle. In this vlog I want to share a little more about Sweet Abigail, the first novel I self-published using the CreateSpace platform (now KDP). Advantages: User-friendly platform Basic templates and layouts EasyContinue Reading
How To Overcome Negativity From Others?
It’s difficult to swim against the current. It’s especially difficult to fight against the negative tide of other people’s fears, anxieties, failures, and mistakes projected onto us. As difficult as it is, negativity from others is part of the creative process. As creatives, we will have ideas, visions, projects thatContinue Reading
3 Simple Steps to Avoid Feeling Lazy
Because at one time or another we have all felt lazy and sluggish. It’s important to remember that downtime is good for the mind and inspiration. We don’t have to actively engage in an activity or project all the time. But when that lazy feeling is making us feel uncomfortable,Continue Reading
Which Self-Publishing Platforms Do I Use?
Hi! It’s Gaba Someone recently asked on Quora about self-publishing platforms, and I thought it would make a good first self-publishing vlog. From the beginning, I’ve used CreateSpace.com for print on demand and KDP for digital. I find these are user-friendly platforms, with templates, layouts, and designs for beginner authorsContinue Reading
What’s The Vlog About?
Hi! I’m Gaba, In this first Vlog I want to introduce myself and what this channel will be all about. It’s been a long time since I dared to publish a video of myself, and it was about time to begin again. Through this personal Vlog I want you toContinue Reading
The Power of Reinvention
Why should we feel any measure of shame when we decide to change paths, careers, relationships? Does life always stay the same? Does anybody’s life trajectory is truly linear? No, our lives’ stories (like the best stories) have twists and turns. We move forward and step back, recalculate, go again.Continue Reading
3 Reasons Why You Should Be Blogging In 2018
It seems fitting to inaugurate the re-birth of The Creative Confidential Blog by answering this recent #Quora #Question: Why You Should Be Blogging In 2018? with a post. The up-voted answer was originally shared by marketing expert Matt Brennan from the Business2Business Community. Inspired by his on-the-nose answer, I want toContinue Reading