A Flower for You (conte, and pastel drawing), Copyright © Attaining Creativity 2008  

In the later part of this week, I’ve been experiencing:
- Having a constant feeling of being overwhelmed. I find myself having tons of ideas – not only creative creation ideas but marketing ideas, selling ideas, promotion ideas – but having no idea on which way to go. This con is all about having a lack of focus.
- Lack of direction – since there are so many ideas, my energies are directed everywhere and nowhere. Again, this con is all about having a lack of focus. Am I seeing a pattern here?

Although I’ve been drawing and creating pieces this week, I have not put up anything on my shop or done much else to actually begin to sell my wares. I began to realize that I was simply just drawing and hoping that everything else would fall into place. Well, I kind of knew that nothing would fall into place on its own, but I was hoping that my momentum would direct me to the right place and time.

And in its own way, my momentum has. It has focused me on actually penning down my ideas and focus, and now that I am seeing my goals written down, I know much better how my creations fit into place, and I know how to create work that ties into my goals.

I spend what I call an administrative hour each morning dealing with e-mails and checking out other people’s blogs (the only negative about that is that most people haven’t updated their blogs by 7:30AM!) but I use that time to get inspiration for the rest of the day, figure out new tactics on networking and promoting my work, and get rearing to go for the remainder of the day.

At Creative Everyday’s Springy Inspiration blog entry, I found out about The Boss of You blog and got immediately to doing the first list of exercises on their book. I got so excited after doing the first three exercises (and Lauren and Emira finish the chapter off by telling to give yourself a treat – how much better can finishing up business objectives be!) that I did a quick search of where I can buy their book locally (doing what I can to help keep things green). So this weekend, while I’m getting more art supplies, I’ll also be cruzing down to Bookshop Santa Cruz and picking up their book.

I also found some very creative and simple marketing ideas on how to promote my work – the ideas there were so neat that I have been thinking about how to implement them nonstop this morning.

After writing down my goals and being amazed at what I actually wrote down as my measurement of success (hint: it’s not about money or popularity but about being part of another person’s journey to attaining their own creativity and freedom from having to live the “standard” life), I can see clearly one of the pros of simply jumping off:
- Having so many ideas and realizing that I can think, that I am creative, and that I am good and worthy of success.

Although I am one of those that despises writing goals down, I have come to the age and time in my life in which I realize the power of doing so: Having your goals and your desires stare you in the face every day is a powerful reminder of why you are following your passion, and a visual reminder that gives me focus and drive.

Have a great weekend, full of ideas, and goal setting, and creations!

This entry was posted on Friday, April 25th, 2008 at 4:25 pm and is filed under Attaining creativity. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

A Flower for You (conte, and pastel drawing), Copyright © Attaining Creativity 2008  

In the later part of this week, I’ve been experiencing:
- Having a constant feeling of being overwhelmed. I find myself having tons of ideas – not only creative creation ideas but marketing ideas, selling ideas, promotion ideas – but having no idea on which way to go. This con is all about having a lack of focus.
- Lack of direction – since there are so many ideas, my energies are directed everywhere and nowhere. Again, this con is all about having a lack of focus. Am I seeing a pattern here?

Although I’ve been drawing and creating pieces this week, I have not put up anything on my shop or done much else to actually begin to sell my wares. I began to realize that I was simply just drawing and hoping that everything else would fall into place. Well, I kind of knew that nothing would fall into place on its own, but I was hoping that my momentum would direct me to the right place and time.

And in its own way, my momentum has. It has focused me on actually penning down my ideas and focus, and now that I am seeing my goals written down, I know much better how my creations fit into place, and I know how to create work that ties into my goals.

I spend what I call an administrative hour each morning dealing with e-mails and checking out other people’s blogs (the only negative about that is that most people haven’t updated their blogs by 7:30AM!) but I use that time to get inspiration for the rest of the day, figure out new tactics on networking and promoting my work, and get rearing to go for the remainder of the day.

At Creative Everyday’s Springy Inspiration blog entry, I found out about The Boss of You blog and got immediately to doing the first list of exercises on their book. I got so excited after doing the first three exercises (and Lauren and Emira finish the chapter off by telling to give yourself a treat – how much better can finishing up business objectives be!) that I did a quick search of where I can buy their book locally (doing what I can to help keep things green). So this weekend, while I’m getting more art supplies, I’ll also be cruzing down to Bookshop Santa Cruz and picking up their book.

I also found some very creative and simple marketing ideas on how to promote my work – the ideas there were so neat that I have been thinking about how to implement them nonstop this morning.

After writing down my goals and being amazed at what I actually wrote down as my measurement of success (hint: it’s not about money or popularity but about being part of another person’s journey to attaining their own creativity and freedom from having to live the “standard” life), I can see clearly one of the pros of simply jumping off:
- Having so many ideas and realizing that I can think, that I am creative, and that I am good and worthy of success.

Although I am one of those that despises writing goals down, I have come to the age and time in my life in which I realize the power of doing so: Having your goals and your desires stare you in the face every day is a powerful reminder of why you are following your passion, and a visual reminder that gives me focus and drive.

Have a great weekend, full of ideas, and goal setting, and creations!

This entry was posted on Friday, April 25th, 2008 at 4:25 pm and is filed under Attaining creativity. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.