Imagine – Note the Differences
Exercise #1 in Stage Ten of the Creativity Journey – Keeping Your Light Alive Imagine that you are walking into your home after months away on a long journey. What does your space look like with fresh eyes? Perhaps you too now see a thick layer of dust not as …
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Keeping Your Creative Fire Burning
Stage Ten of the Creativity Journey The final stage in your creativity journey involves learning how to maintain your creativity, how to keep your light alive. But you may be worried about the Fear of the Blank Page. You may be full of ideas now, but may wonder if the …
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Act – Begin Your Practice
Exercise #4 in Stage Nine of the Creativity Journey – Feed Your Light There’s nothing holding you back now. You understand your unique form of expression, the art that only you can make. You have designed a creative practice and learned the value of creating simply for creativity’s sake. So …
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Create – Just Do Something
Exercise #3 in Stage Nine of the Creativity Journey – Feed Your Light After taking an online class together a few years ago, a small group of my fellow students and I stayed in touch via email. We shared what we were working on and our joys and frustrations with …
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Explore Your Practice
Exercise #2 in Stage Nine of the Creativity Journey – Feed Your Light By now you may have a pretty good idea of what your creative practice looks like. You’ve defined the principles that will guide your creative life and decided what is and what is not important to you. …
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Imagine – Your Meditation
Exercise #1 in Stage Nine of the Creativity Journey – Feed Your Light As I mentioned in the last post, many artists begin their creative practice with a meditation of some kind as a way to ease out of the cares of the day and into the art. Your gear-shifting …
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Feeding Your Creativity with a Creative Practice
One of the most exciting stages of the creative journey is when you find your light, when you discover the creative expression that is uniquely yours. However, once you find that light, you need to keep feeding it with a regular creative practice. The fear you may face at this …
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Act – Define Your Principles
Exercise #4 in Stage Eight of the Creativity Journey – Feel the Light Your journey is nearing an end and in the next stage you will begin to establish your creative practice. For now however, spend some time thinking about what really matters to you about your creativity and your …
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Create – Update Your Map
Exercise #3 in Stage Eight of the Creativity Journey – Feel the Light When you first drew your map you may not have been able to foresee all of the obstacles that would be on your path or the open road on the other side of your challenges. Get out …
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Explore – Courage
Exercise #2 of Stage Eight of the Creativity Journey – Feel the Light Whether or not you realize it, you have built immense courage along this journey. Or, I should say that you discovered immense courage because it was with you all along. It took courage to begin this journey, …
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