Some of the best “you are your brand” words from Danielle LaPorte that I’ve ever read courtesy of IttyBiz. (Caution: adult language.) Totally refreshing and empowering for those of us dealing with branding fatigue.

Aliventures’ post on Why Your Creativity Matters. My favorite quotes from the article:

To create means producing something which didn’t exist before and which wouldn’t have existed without you. A painting, a blog post, a novel, a piece of jewellery – whatever it is, it’s yours.

To create is to dream, to imagine, to take a part of yourself and to place it in the world.

Elizabeth Gilbert’s 2009 TED presentation on nurturing creativity. I particularly love how she addresses the myth of the suffering artist.