by Sarah Jane Vickery | Jul 10, 2018 | Cartoon Club, Get Creative
I think I should have written this list long ago! What I have done for years, ever since working downtown, was say to myself ‘do-less’ whenever I would start to feel overwhelmed. I find that sometimes it is just a matter of letting myself not do one or two things that...
by Sarah Jane Vickery | Jul 5, 2018 | Cartoon Club
I was reading some research by Charles Duhigg that looked at what happened when Starbucks tried to implement a health plan. Despite employees being given access to gym memberships and diet workshops, they couldn’t get any traction. The trouble it seems was that...
by Sarah Jane Vickery | Jun 21, 2018 | Cartoon Club, Get Creative
My sister and I both did the hoola hoop when we were young. I don’t remember being terribly good at it but it was fun! We also used to roller skate (you know the old school metal ones that you strapped over your feet and locked in place with a key!) and we skipped all...
by Sarah Jane Vickery | Jun 7, 2018 | Cartoon Club, Get Creative, Popular Posts
I love this quote from Ai Weiwei. It sticks in my head because my friend Veronica had it up on her fridge. Whenever I’d be feeling overwhelmed by another big creative project I would look at that fridge magnet and remind myself to just start with one little thing. I...
by Sarah Jane Vickery | May 25, 2018 | Book Reviews, Get Creative
My friend Rose very kindly sent me the book “Solve for Happy“. It’s about engineering your path to joy written by Mo Gawdat, the the chief business officer at Google X. He is an engineer so he approaches the problem with the engineering methodology of breaking down...
