POSITIVES: Now that I’ve discussed some of the negative sides of developing patience in your creativity process, I want to finish by discussing some of the positives. As my patience grows over time, I am able to problem-solve more effectively. The skills I struggled with when I first started beading and writing, they don’t bother me anymore. I haven’t forgotten what I went through to learn them, but I’m free to move on to more complicated pieces of jewelry and writing. I am more aware of myself as a creative person. I know my new limits and strengths much better, each time I go through a learning experience. I still know that wirewrapping is not my strongest skill, and that I have some good resources available to help me strengthen that skill. I know that I’d like to write a given article in less time, then I do currently. I want to push myself a bit. I think I can do this, but I haven’t tried to produce in the new timeframe yet. That is a challenge I’m looking forward to accomplishing this year. Finally, I am more accepting of my creative strengths and weaknesses. I don’t necessarily like my weaknesses, but I know now that I can work with and through them. I don’t have to let them remain as barriers to experimenting with other skills. Sometimes I am too good at making excuses to avoid tough work. Now, I don’t have a reason to make any work excuses, because I have the ability to work through and learn a new skill, and while not letting my old habits trip me up in the process.

RELAX-PURSUIT: How can you relax and pursue patience? It’s possible, it really is. I wouldn’t mention it, if it weren’t possible to learn. As you continue in your creative process, you can bring together both character traits and skills to help you problem-solve through the creation of new ideas, collaboration with other artists and the pursuit of other new ideas that will come along your way. I was invited to join a craft group about two years after I started beading. My friend started talking about some creative women that she had recently met. I was feeling a bit jealous, because I wanted to be a part of something just like what she described. However, I figured I wouldn’t be a part of it, just because it was a closed group and because I would be interfering with her creative process and relationships. So, I put the idea away and just listened to her as she talked about the group and how she was learning so much through formation process. Later on, they decided to open up the group to two new people per current member. I was so excited and surprised when my friend invited me to ‘yes’ to the group. Another perk was being able to spend more time with my friend and another mutual artist friend, that I rarely saw anymore. Since that time, we’ve completed on one holiday boutique together. We are preparing for our next one in December. We are growing in terms of the artists’s we are inviting to work with us, too. If I had planned to find or join that same group on my own, I would have never planned it that way. Due to my natural impatience, I would have probably found a way to distance myself, rather than join the group. Anyway, because I learned to be patient and accepting of myself and my friend’s opportunity, I inadvertently put myself in the running to be invited to the group. I’m very grateful that that happened, because I was at a point where I wanted to work with a group of creative women. Remember that if impatience or old habits became an issue for you, you can always take some time to write a journal entry about the situation. Writing is the simplest exercise available to begin your problem-solving journey with impatience and old habits.

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Today I am going to introduce two new concepts for Friday’s entry. I am introducing Friday resources, a set of resources located at the end of Part 3, that will help you review the lessons presented during this week’s entry. Secondly, I’m going to end the entry, and the week, with a quote. I enjoy quotations. I like the challenge, as well as the wisdom they offer.

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FRIDAY RESOURCES:

Eight Major Distractions
Procrastinations Solutions
Procrastination Quiz

FRIDAY QUOTE:
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
Agnes De Mille

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