Happy Memorial Day!
In honor of Memorial Day the Creativity Blog will return with another article in June.
Have a creative week!
In honor of Memorial Day the Creativity Blog will return with another article in June.
Have a creative week!
Since our emotions are an important part of our creativity, I thought I’d share the following journaling article with you. These are a few of the exercises I suggest to clients when completing ‘feeling work’. ‘Feeling work’ is working through your feelings via journaling. You may also use other techniques to complete your feeling work. However, I routinely suggest journaling to all of my clients. Wherever possible, I specifically want my clients to identify and walk through their feelings around creativity. Have a creative week!
The word optimism came to mind as I was thinking about what to write in the creativity blog this morning. What do I have to be optimistic about? Creativity. I am optimistic about my creativity, your creativity and general modes of creative expression. I’m in the middle of planning for a mid-June jewelry event. I’ve been having some amazing discussions with another artist, as we are planning to share a table and space with each other. She sells perfume and I’m selling jewelry. We both have some other products that we are selling as well. So our conversations have covered design and layout ideas, types of products, use of our space and how to attract customers, among other things. She emailed me on Friday night, with a slew of ideas about how to set up our tables. She always has good ideas, backed up by a strong retail background. But I found myself feeling a little resistant to hearing her ideas. I let her know what my thoughts were, so that I could eventually let go of some of the resistance and start really hearing what she had to say. Over the weekend, I realized that it was important to me to hear what she had to say and that it was important for me to jump into the discussion, adding my own thoughts and asking some of the questions, that I had about trying out new display ideas. When I was able to relax and share more of my thoughts, I noticed that I became much more open to incorporating some of the basic ideas that she had already suggested. In general, I feel more optimistic about what I want to do with my display. I have less fear about trying new ideas or reconstituted inventory ideas during this event. I still have some fears and work yet to do, but I’m glad to say that I woke up feeling more optimistic about my creativity this morning. I’ve included four reasons for my optimism below.
This week’s article is one of my most pressing topics, procrastination. It’s a battle that I fight daily. I’ve included several practical ways to beat this habit. I would love to hear your insights and ideas as well.
PROCRASTINATION
SOLUTIONS
By Lael Johnson
I’m assuming that you have encountered some form of procrastination in your life. For those of you who don’t struggle with procrastination. Congratulations! I find procrastination especially frustrating to handle, when it disguises itself as irritability, confusion and anger, pointing my heart and mind away from where the real causes lie.
Baby steps are the best way to accomplish complex goals. I formulate my recommendations for my clients in small increments. When it comes to making progress toward reaching a goal, my main concern is for my client to complete a specific action. Showing up to complete an action is very important too, but to really move forward toward completing a larger goal, I encourage my clients to work toward completing one baby step at a time. After completing many such baby steps, the day arrives when my client completes or exceeds completion of a current goal. That’s an exciting day.
