Be Free
This week’s Action Item: Schedule free time. Huh? It’s counterintuitive, I know, but schedule in some down time to your week. Book a 15 to 30 minute time slot to do some free creating, to poke around, to daydream, to explore. I promise that it will be time well-spent.
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Create Freely
Let your Imagine and Explore exercises lead the way to creating freely. As you explored what creative freedom meant to you, did inspiration strike? Go back to what you free wrote. Is there something there that’s germinating an idea? It doesn’t have to be fully formed. Sit and sketch for …
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Explore Freedom
Today, do some free writing on what freedom means to you. Open up a blank notes page or even better, grab a piece of paper and a pen, and just write what comes to mind as you explore the idea of “freedom.” Is there some “stuff” that comes up for …
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Imagine Creative Freedom
Close your eyes, sit still, and imagine what it would be like to be creatively free. Can you feel it?
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Embracing Creative Freedom
July is a month in which we in the United States tend to think a lot about freedom. We wave flags, eat pie, shoot stuff into the sky and celebrate our independence from our colonial rulers. Since it’s also a full month of summer, we tend to feel a bit …
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Create – Just Do Something
Just Do Something. Spend 15 minutes doing something creative just for fun. It doesn’t have to have a purpose or “be” anything. Creating for the sake of creating is enough.
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Explore – Do a Little Research
What was on the top of your list of things to learn? Is there a class you can take online or off? There’s certainly a YouTube video you can find, but maybe being given a project, supply list, and instruction is the low-stress option you really need. Do a little …
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Imagine – Something to Try
Think about what you may want to learn. Is there a technique that you’ve wanted to try or a project that’s been on your wish list? If you’re a list maker, create that bucket list. Not a list maker? Think about the one thing that’s really calling to you.
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Keep Learning
Last month, we considered the ways in which tackling creative challenges builds confidence over time, confidence that then spills over into other areas of your life. But seriously, sometimes even the work involved in figuring out new creative challenges, new things to try, or new projects to start, is exhausting …
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Create with Confidence
Exercise your creativity today. Choose your favorite way to create. It could be the thing you loved to do as a kid. Maybe it’s creating a beautiful meal. Whatever it is, build your confidence by creating something today. Keep practicing and create something tomorrow too. Your confidence will just keep …
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