About The Tao of Creativity by Charles Tincknell
We are all born Creative, but as we grow up many of us lose our natural creativity.
This book is a gentle guide to help you re-find or strengthen your creativity and help you build it back into your life. We all have the capacity to imagine, to shape, and to create. However, with work and the speed we often live our lives, we lose touch with our creative rhythm and flow. Instead, we get forced into chasing speed, control, to get quick visible short-term results. Real sustainable results come from having and building on great ideas, a little bit of magic and gentle flow. You are capable of all three.
To help you find your way there are 81 short, poetic verses with reflections and practices that help you pause, yield, and rediscover your creative path.
Creativity is a fuel for a happy, productive and exciting life. It drives innovation, good leadership, great parenting, and even everyday problem‑solving. Instead of demanding perfection or control, this book invites you to soften, listen, and begin down a different path. It shows how creativity is not a static thing, but a living essence within you, one that emerges when you trust your flow.
What you’ll discover inside:
Practical habits for creativity — rituals, pauses, and questions that spark ideas and sustain momentum.
Leadership insights — how to guide teams with trust, coherence, and presence instead of control and demands.
Parenting wisdom — ways to create safe spaces that nurture curiosity, address challenges and maintain growth.
Creative practices — prompts and reflections that help you begin, adapt, and keep moving, especially if you get stuck.
Themes of yielding, stillness, and renewal — principles that restore your inner clarity in a noisy, demanding world.
You will find 100s of quick fixes, but this book is far more about slow truths, reminders that creativity is all around us, we just need to see it both in ourselves, our teams and the wider world. In brief, stop chasing outcomes, but trusting your Creative Tao. It has all the answers and more.
Whether you are leading a team, raising a child, writing a book, or simply seeking a more balanced way of living, these verses offer a path back to what matters: the spacious, resilient, and deeply human flow of creativity.
Begin your journey today. Step out of the rush, rediscover your flow, and let creativity become your way of being.
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Author Bio:
Charles was born on a leap day, 29th February. A rare date that has always marked him as someone inclined to see life from a slightly different angle. His early curiosity led him to study Geology at university, driven by a childhood dream of becoming a gold or diamond prospector. Though the mines and fields of exploration remained a vision rather than a vocation, the discipline of geology instilled in him a lifelong respect for structure, patience, and the hidden patterns beneath the surface of things.
Instead, Charles built his career in construction and building refurbishment, industries where tangible transformation meets human ingenuity. Over decades, he learned how to balance the practical demands of projects with the subtler art of guiding people through change. This experience became the foundation for his later work in organizational consulting.
More recently, Charles founded Couler Ltd, a management consulting practice dedicated to blending strategy, people, and process into a coherent whole. His approach is both rigorous and creative: helping leaders and teams across industries and continents to unlock performance by aligning clarity of vision with imaginative insight. He is recognized for his ability to translate complex challenges into accessible pathways, and for fostering environments where creativity and discipline coexist productively.
By nature, Charles describes himself as a creative positivist. He is someone who sees possibility in every situation and believes in the power of process improvement, leadership, and creative thinking to transform organizations and lives. His passion lies in helping others rediscover flow, resilience, and the joy of building something meaningful.
Beyond his professional life, Charles is deeply rooted in family. He is married to Helen, a nurse whose compassion, empathy and caring have been a constant source of encouragement. Together they have raised two grown children. They live in a village near Cambridge UK with their three dogs and, from time to time, a flock of chickens. These rhythms of a lively and nurturing home life, the seasons mirror the balance Charles seeks in his work: creativity, flow and happiness.