Flowers, Anyone? (conte, and pastel drawing), Copyright © Attaining Creativity 2008  

I started the day early (thanks to a couple of women who worked together to help me start the day at 5AM) and have just kept going.

I have passed through the emotions of elation (for completing a simple task within a designated time) and extreme fear (I’m considering joining a weekly craft market in Monterey, CA and I am shaking in my boots at the thought). And now, as I have continued to just keep plugging along, the fear of actually selling my wares (and myself) have lessened – but only slightly. 

In the interest of keeping myself sane, at least for the next couple of hours, I am refusing to keep thinking of the possible obstacles. Obstacles like “do I have enough variation of things to sell, how will I display my creations, who will buy my stuff, can I do this by myself?” I am simply deciding that with each nagging thought, I will take a deep breath and think of a solution. It may not be perfect, but as long as I remove the obstacle, I can keep moving forward. And the good thing is that within the next couple of days, as I program my mind to keep thinking up solutions, the perfect answer might just arrive at my door, and I’ll be ready to greet it.

On another note, as I continue to research and read blogs and books and ask other creatives out there for guidance, advice, and feedback, I’ve come across an old acquaintance. Alyson Stanfield, the Art Biz coach, was someone I found on the web years ago (when I made my first attempt at attaining creativity). Through the beauty of the web, where I go to one page and then jump from one link to another page to another page, I found the Art Biz coach again.

And so I’ve been checking out her blog and trying to find the time to enact her suggestions and comments. Today’s topic has to do with blogs, so it seemed appropriate that I dwell deeper into the article and see what I needed to do to “liven” up this blog. The suggestions and comment s are good, and along the similar lines of other “pimping up your blog” entries. Although one of the suggestions is to link up (and I’m doing that right now), the reason why I bring the article itself up is because we can get so bogged down with suggestions and spend time reworking everything that in the end, we don’t get anything done.

I’m more than willing to follow the suggestions the Art Biz pointed out – because they work. But this is something to do moving forward, and to check in with myself and make sure that this is the type of blog that I would like to keep up, and for you to visit. I do know that putting in links will result in more traffic (all those trackbacks, permalinks, etc.) but I don’t want the entries to be just highlighted linkable text either. And since this blog is about a journey to attaining creativity, sometimes there may not be links to put in, since everyone’s experience in regards to attaining their own creativity is just that: their own.

I do look for blogs and websites that inspire me, and by inspiration I mean that they uplift me, or the blogger may be going through a rough time, but they are still expressing themselves so well that I am inspired by how they are still progressing through a dark time. There are of course plenty of websites and blogs that give tutorials and tips about the business of attaining creativity, but I’m not sure yet that I want to overload this blog with all of the “textual” side of creativity.

I am resolved however, to insert how I integrate the non-creative side of this business with the creative journey itself. With keeping my mind open, and in looking for solutions, I bumped into this TV episode and caught at just the right time to hear that I should be saying YES to just doing, even if they are unknown, scary, dark, unknown, scary. Being in the journey to attaining creativity means that there will be plenty of unknowns and if I am to properly continue on this journey, I need to say YES to fear, to doing things outside my comfort zone.

The challenge for you today is: are you willing to say yes to the scary parts of attaining your own creativity? Share your success story of overcoming a fear, big or small.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 at 11:26 pm and is filed under Attaining creativity, Inspiration. 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.

 Flowers, Anyone? (conte, and pastel drawing), Copyright © Attaining Creativity 2008  

I started the day early (thanks to a couple of women who worked together to help me start the day at 5AM) and have just kept going.

I have passed through the emotions of elation (for completing a simple task within a designated time) and extreme fear (I’m considering joining a weekly craft market in Monterey, CA and I am shaking in my boots at the thought). And now, as I have continued to just keep plugging along, the fear of actually selling my wares (and myself) have lessened – but only slightly. 

In the interest of keeping myself sane, at least for the next couple of hours, I am refusing to keep thinking of the possible obstacles. Obstacles like “do I have enough variation of things to sell, how will I display my creations, who will buy my stuff, can I do this by myself?” I am simply deciding that with each nagging thought, I will take a deep breath and think of a solution. It may not be perfect, but as long as I remove the obstacle, I can keep moving forward. And the good thing is that within the next couple of days, as I program my mind to keep thinking up solutions, the perfect answer might just arrive at my door, and I’ll be ready to greet it.

On another note, as I continue to research and read blogs and books and ask other creatives out there for guidance, advice, and feedback, I’ve come across an old acquaintance. Alyson Stanfield, the Art Biz coach, was someone I found on the web years ago (when I made my first attempt at attaining creativity). Through the beauty of the web, where I go to one page and then jump from one link to another page to another page, I found the Art Biz coach again.

And so I’ve been checking out her blog and trying to find the time to enact her suggestions and comments. Today’s topic has to do with blogs, so it seemed appropriate that I dwell deeper into the article and see what I needed to do to “liven” up this blog. The suggestions and comment s are good, and along the similar lines of other “pimping up your blog” entries. Although one of the suggestions is to link up (and I’m doing that right now), the reason why I bring the article itself up is because we can get so bogged down with suggestions and spend time reworking everything that in the end, we don’t get anything done.

I’m more than willing to follow the suggestions the Art Biz pointed out – because they work. But this is something to do moving forward, and to check in with myself and make sure that this is the type of blog that I would like to keep up, and for you to visit. I do know that putting in links will result in more traffic (all those trackbacks, permalinks, etc.) but I don’t want the entries to be just highlighted linkable text either. And since this blog is about a journey to attaining creativity, sometimes there may not be links to put in, since everyone’s experience in regards to attaining their own creativity is just that: their own.

I do look for blogs and websites that inspire me, and by inspiration I mean that they uplift me, or the blogger may be going through a rough time, but they are still expressing themselves so well that I am inspired by how they are still progressing through a dark time. There are of course plenty of websites and blogs that give tutorials and tips about the business of attaining creativity, but I’m not sure yet that I want to overload this blog with all of the “textual” side of creativity.

I am resolved however, to insert how I integrate the non-creative side of this business with the creative journey itself. With keeping my mind open, and in looking for solutions, I bumped into this TV episode and caught at just the right time to hear that I should be saying YES to just doing, even if they are unknown, scary, dark, unknown, scary. Being in the journey to attaining creativity means that there will be plenty of unknowns and if I am to properly continue on this journey, I need to say YES to fear, to doing things outside my comfort zone.

The challenge for you today is: are you willing to say yes to the scary parts of attaining your own creativity? Share your success story of overcoming a fear, big or small.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 at 11:26 pm and is filed under Attaining creativity, Inspiration. 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.