APPRECIATING THE LITTLE GUY IN ALL OF US This week I was traveling for a conference and I had to take a cab to the airport. If you don’t travel a lot, you may not know that there’s a current war on between the black car service drivers and taxicab drivers. Companies like Uber have figured out a way to make black car cushy transport easier. I’ve tried it and I realized I prefer riding with the cab drivers because they seem like the little guy in this situation. Many cab drivers are new to our the country and are learning their way around. I want to help. So when I walked out of my hotel and a black car drove up and told me he would give me the same price for a ride as the taxicab, I waved him on and got into the taxicab behind him.  The black car driver got mad about it, but he was waiting in a taxicab station, which isn't allowed.  When I told the cabbie why I passed up that black car to ride with him, naturally we became fast friends! I found out my new friend was originally from Antigua. Then we proceeded to have the GREATEST conversation.  We talked about traffic and how it tests you to see if you’ll do the “right thing” or not.  My driver told me a story about how he wouldn’t let a woman cut into line in front of him and almost got beat him for it. (and he was a big guy).I shared about the time someone behind me got so tired of cars cutting into line at the last minute (while the rest of us had been waiting for an hour), that he pulled over into that lane and simply stopped traffic, forcing them to creep along with the rest of us. We laughed and admitted that we'd been those cars cutting in too, sometimes. Then our conversation went from great to fantastic. He and I began listing all the career paths we had taken and we found that many of the industries we'd worked in overlapped - #business, #healthcare, #art.  We’d walked over so much common ground that we both became giddy appreciating our timely connection. In the last few moments, he turned his mirror so he could look me in the eyes and confided that he felt he had never really been able to reach what he was capable of and didn’t know why. This was soul to soul, sharing truth. Well, you can guess what happened next; naturally I shared the vision to reality process with him. I handed him my business card so he’d know how to watch that TEDx talk #DrawYourFuture, and a HUcard fell out of my wallet at the same time. That must have been meant for him too, so I handed it to him as well.  “When you feel down, or worried, sing HU”, I explained, “it’s a sacred word as old as time that will help to remind you that you are a spiritual being, capable of anything you desire.” We parted ways with a profound appreciation for each other’s gifts and stories, and for that wonderful thread that weaves through everything, connecting us to new friends everywhere, in every moment.   This week take time to appreciate the little guys in your world (that means you too) and honor those interactions as an opportunity for connection. Wherever you go,#lead the charge and give love, be love. Thanks for reading #creativegeniusyou, Love, Patti CREATIVITY SYMPOSIUM FREMONT ABBEY ARTS CENTER Join me June 7th from 10AM - 3PM The Creativity Symposium for Puget Sound Entrepreneurial Women is a one day conference event for entrepreneurial women to unleash their joy and creativity through speakers, workshops, mastermind circles, and networking. #womencreativesunite HEALTHCARE EDUCATORS ROCKIN' H2P CONSORTIUM When educators get together to get things done, things happen. Thanks for inviting me to illustrate your brilliance. You are amazing and thank you for transforming education. #educationtransformation SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL 43RD BIENNIAL CONVENTION Early warning!  I'll be speaking in Vancouver at this event! If you don't know about the amazing things the Soroptimist International are doing for women around the world, now is the time to get online and find out.They are a force to be supported. Send your friends to draw their dreams into reality in Canada!

Your #CreativeGenius Will Transform Your Business or Your Life

YOUR CREATIVE GENIUS  will transform your business or your life I was #drawingsolutions at an events planning meeting and they were talking about one of the coolest ideas to build their brand's culture. It was a creativity event that was taking place all over the world; included amazing artists, awesome technology and never mentioned the sponsor's name. You had to go searching for it, which people did! They were shocked by the event's sponsor!  Wow! This team's idea was so compelling that it made me want to switch my brand loyalty.  When was the last time you felt inspired by an idea? You know, where that concept or vision was so cool that you thought, oh my god, where did that idea come from?! Incremental change is just that…incremental. To get to the awesome you…you gotta goBIG. 1. Ask questions - What's the boldest thing I (or we) could do? 2. Stop the internal chatter and listen to what your intuition (or customer) is telling you. 3. Use your innate creative genius, your imagination, to pull down, build, balloon, highlight, explore your idea. 4. Draw it as you get it.  Literally, sketch it on a scrap of paper. People who draw their ideas increase their idea generation by 65%! 5. When you hit on and sketch out that idea you love, then rest for a second. Close your eyes and ask the big you, the universal you, the creative genius you, for "This or something better." The brain is a limited resource. But you, the eternal you, is limitless. Creative genius is about accessing the ideas that already exist and pulling them out of your imagination and into this reality, right here, right now. In an ICF Oregon Chapter meeting, I was showing the coaches the Draw Your Future process, and a woman drew a picture of herself taking a vacation with her boyfriend, in a very specific country, on the future side of her map. Moments later she got a text from her boyfriend suggesting they put a vacation into the calendar to travel to that very place. I hear stories like this everyday. Go draw your future, then send me your story, I know you'll have one too. If you want to change your life, be more successful in your business, your health or your relationship, why not shift your perspective? Pretend you already are in the experience you want. Everyday, take time to rest, get quiet, reflect, and dream.This or something better. Your creative genius is spinning the universe on your behalf in every moment of every day. Tap into the hundreds of ideas and solutions to help you handle any situation you encounter. UP YOUR CREATIVE GENIUS THIS SATURDAY!!! Join me at the 2014 CREATIVITY SYMPOSIUM Saturday, June 7th, 10Am-3PM, Fremont Abbey Arts Center in Seattle.  Here's the lineup of awesomeness: Jennifer Hopper, Song Artist, The Angel Band Project Carol Sanford, CEO of the Responsible Entrepreneur Institute Lisa Fitzhugh, Founding Partner of Creative Ground, Activist Abby Lodmer, Conscious Comedian of Humor Healing Humanity Imani Sims, Poet and Spoken Word Performance Artist Justin Blaney, #1 Best-Selling Novelist Kerstin O'Shields, Soprano Opera Singer & Presentation Coach Zita Gustin, Connector Expert and Strategic Coach Erin Jeck, Founder, Create Infinite Balance, LLC Amy Lang, MA Speaker, Author & Parenting Expert Keynote Patti Dobrowolski, Up Your Creative Genius VISION TO REALITY ICF OREGON CHAPTER MEETING These coaches are amazing.  They invited me to do a keynote on Drawing Solutions, Visual Goalsetting.  If you need your team to get revitalized or realigned, this 45-90 minute key note is a perfect way to do it! And these coaches will help you make those changes stick! THE GIRL EFFECT GIRLS RULE, MAKE IT OUR REALITY We give a lot of lip service to supporting girls in our society. But the fact is, there are girls starving, stolen, or lost all around the world. You can do something about it. Change your attitude and start empowering girls. Put Girls First. FOUND ITEMS 7 PRINCIPLES OF CONSCIOUSNESS i found this in a book that I had on my shelf. I love it. Try taking one of these words into your day and ask to have an experience with one of these qualities to show you what it means.