Explore What Matters
This month, we’re exploring the links between pain and creativity, both how your creativity can help you work through your pain, but also how that pain can be a driver for transformational creative work. Today, as you explore these ideas more, ask yourself the following questions (which come from Bittersweet: …
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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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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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Explore Your Confidence
What would you do with greater confidence? Close your eyes. Imagine yourself six months in the future. You’ve explored your creativity, learned to play more, and gained confidence as a result. What will your new confidence do for you? Do you imagine yourself pitching that innovative idea? Are you in …
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Explore – A New Light
Exercise #2 in Stage Seven of the Creativity Journey – Trust Your Voice What is your “Money Mountain”? What is the major obstacle that you face in your journey? Take the time to rail about it to the heavens. Curse it. Scream about it (on paper if you’re worried that …
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Explore – Do Nothing
Exercise #2 of Stage 6 in the Creativity Journey – Rest and Listen In the previous exercise, you got a taste of stillness, of being quiet and opening your mind to hear the voice of the Muse. Now it’s time to do it in earnest, but you can do this …
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Explore – What are you carrying?
Exercise #2, Stage Five of the Creativity Journey – Walk Forward Take the list of what’s in your pack that you created during the previous exercise and look back over it. Is there an item or are there several items that pull at you in a particular way? Perhaps there …
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Explore – What Do You Love?
Exercise #2 in Stage Three – Play For this exercise, start a list of the media that may interest you on your creativity journey. First, go back to the notes you took on your childhood creativity in the last exercise. What media did you love most as a kid? Did …
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Explore – Who Are You?
Exercise #2 in Stage Two – Venture Forth You will learn a lot about yourself during this journey of a lifetime. You will discover strengths that you didn’t know you had and you will uncover your authentic self. But you start this journey with more than you realize too. Take …
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