This is a revision of an old blog post that used to be called “Preparing for a Better Me”, but I think I’m changing it to “Preparing for a Happier Me”.
I posted something on Facebook once for people who tend to over commit.
A Week Of Activities To Break Creative Block
If you don’t feel creative today, sort your beads, clean your workshop, or rearrange your books.
But on day two, sit down and sketch. It doesn’t have to be something you’re going to end up making… just sketch. Doodle, zentangle, anything. Write words if they come to your mind, too. None of this has to be…
What is a duplicate content filter?
A duplicate content filter is a way for search engines to weed out sites that have content that's exactly the same. After all, if you search on "torch enameling", you probably want a a variety of choices rather than the first ten to be exactly the same site.
So Google and other search engines compare words on pages and if a large portion of them are identical, the search engine figures it's just a copy and paste from one site or one page…
Can you imagine going up to a jewelry booth at a show and saying to the artist, “You work really sucks. These people around you are so much better than you. You shouldn’t even be here.”
Pretty shocking, right? I mean, even if you THINK it, you’d never SAY it.
But some people do say it… to themselves… on a daily basis.
It breaks my heart.
Ideally, we wouldn’t only NOT say these kinds of things to ourselves or to others, but we wouldn’t even THINK them. (Yes…