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You Wanna Be Creative – When Life Has Other Plans
Each person in these examples knows that they really need to get back to being creative when life has gotten in the way. But how?
Respecting the Artist’s Process
Mindfully appreciating the moment, rather than slotting the experience into pigeonholes based on prior knowledge, prejudices, or fashion – an impossible goal?
My Creativity Coaching Refresh
My clients and I are now focusing on process, day by day, small change by small change, for people in a variety of creative fields.
Moving Forward after an Energy Leak
Questions to consider the next time you’ve addressed an energy leak or drain and are wondering where to go now with your creative practice.
Claim the Artist’s Parallel Life
To set aside time and energy for our creative practice, especially when it’s at the expense of more typically expected activities, may not be the norm.
Repair Your Energetic Leaks
Once we’ve noticed some leaks, we can start by asking a new question. We can recall a peak experience. We can examine our self-talk.
What’s Your Hazel Test?
Is it more important to commune with the cat, or to write another few paragraphs? How determined am I to keep my pen out of her paws, or maneuver the trackpad away from her haunches?
Identify Your Energy Leaks
You might say that the leaks are the places where our creative flow gets diverted from a clear, moving stream off into clogged-up, murky bogs.
Avoid Invented Roadblocks
What if our whole construct is just fundamentally bogus? Why prejudge ourselves out of possibilities?
Do. Rest. Repeat.
Everything’s subject to change, so routine and habits may not take us all the way there. We may need to take a pause. What’s on your list of go-to’s when you recognize the need to rest and recharge?