Take the time it takes.
A beautiful painting is not finished in twenty minutes. Take the time it takes to feel the breadth and span of the creative project, and then, perhaps just today’s work.
Take the time it takes to explore feelings and identify fears. Then, focus on positivity to embrace delight before moving forward. {Trust the process.}
If it’s not fun - Run!
It’s fun when the writing flow is rewarding, seemingly propels itself, and marks the entry into the creative zone.
It’s not fun when old ideas wrestle for control. A lifetime of operating under career deadlines, revenue equation consciousness, and old production shortcuts need to be tucked away like last year’s favorite clothes {hard to part with} but clearly expired.
Create it beautifully.
There is a time between ‘today and someday’ in which sits the decision to take action without consequence or face consequence of inaction. I find this is where my self-worth comes to play: in what I can do and what I will do. For me, I keep a reminder pasted to my work desk: My Buoy Line > Positivity + Sobriety + Persona.
Count My Joy.
My joy is measurable by how long it lasts. Like a beautiful butterfly that lands upon my hand and I can scarcely breathe lest I scare it away. Joy for a moment, an hour, a day, a week - when all is right with my world and my perspective of it.
Practice joy. A simple meditation on the quiet of butterflies can erase pestering cares, concerns, and worries.
Just breathe {unless the house is on fire}.
I’ve often wondered how Michelangelo created his masterpieces surrounded by the people in the chapel, the noise, the critics, and quite possibly in very negative atmospheres.
I’m learning how to just breathe.
I find myself in-situ with a household that runs amok continuously. Not only is my balance and focus under siege by noisy grandchildren, but the world in general.
So, I just breathe, to allow my creative self the space it needs to take flight and land where it will - like the butterfly.
I have 6 dogs, not grandchildren.. but when you feel it, seems like nothing can get in the way of doing the art, the writing, the creating.