Archive for the ‘Creativity’ Category

Expanding Your Creative Mind

Friday, October 26th, 2007

If you’ve ever watched little children you know they are always curious, seeking excitement, adventure and even fearless when it comes to escaping boredom. But something happens to them as they journey into adulthood that robs them their spontaneity. They become adults and settle into patterns of expected behaviors.

Which isn’t all bad—but it isn’t all good…

They take residence inside comfort zones. They seldom have breakthrough ideas. And expanding the mind is replaced by an expanding waistline.

I know this because I’ve been there. I was on the wrong road. The nice thing is I didn’t stay on that road. I took an exit…

A creativity exit.

Most entrepreneurs, small business owners and solo professionals who left the corporate world to “do their own thing” find doing their own thing a hard thing to do. They have the skills and have acquired some resources, but lack the creative mindset that enables them to make consistent money every single month.

But there is good news…

Creativity can be learned. And expanded. As long as you are open and are not jaded with decades of negative programming.

Here are some ideas you can apply immediately:

1) Positive affirmations. Repeat to yourself that you are a profit powerhouse. A money magnet. Or a success superstar. But not only that, believe and visualize you in that role. What would you say, do or behave differently than you do now?

2) Take creative action. Solve sudoku or crossword puzzles. Catch a Comedy Night show. Eat at exotic restaurants. Dress more colorfully. Drive the scenic route. Enjoy a massage. Sign up for online dating. Try bungee jumping. Dive into snorkeling. Step away from yourself to perform a random act of kindness.

3) Learn a new skill. Take an art class. Join a speech workshop. Become a writer. Hire a coach. Drive a stick shift. Enroll in leadership courses.

4) Invest in yourself. Attend seminars. Listen to self-development CDs. Read how-to books. Enjoy progressive music concerts. Look into alternative healers. Go to a favorite spot to people watch. Search for deeper truths when watching movies.

5) Begin a personal journal. Record personal success stories. The failures also. Write exactly what you’re thinking in the language you normally use. Don’t worry: this won’t be graded.

6) Model successful ideas. Adapt and apply successful marketing campaigns from TV, radio, newspapers, mail and Internet. Learn scripts from a sales guru.

7) Start a mastermind group. Let the creative juices flow. Accept and record every idea. Don’t criticize. There is nothing too wacky, off-the-wall, bizarre, silly, impractical, impossible or inappropriate. Nothing.

You have the power to awaken and expand your creative mind. You can learn to become more spontaneous while unlearning predictability. Just take the next exit. People will never see you in the same way again.

Tommy Yan helps business owners and entrepreneurs make more money through direct response marketing. He publishes Tommy’s Tease weekly e-zine to inspire people to succeed in business and personal growth. Get your free subscription today at www.TommyYan.com.

If you’re a speaker, trainer, coach, or a consultant—the major challenge you face is connecting with your audience. You talk, shout, or recite your message while they are dreaming about dinner.

Their eyes are glossy, their minds’ elsewhere, and their bodies ready to bolt. You don’t have a lot of time, so you’ve got to grab their attention fast. Or else, you’ll die wrestling against audience resistance.

But it doesn’t have to be this way…

Discovering Potentials

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

The word potential means your natural gift and also the hidden man in you which is yet to be released or already released. The greatest tragedy in life is lives that do not realize are potential. The place you get much potential that were not released and realized is the grave yard. Until you are filled in the inside the things inside cannot manifest because you are created to manifest. Your potential is discover by you but determine by God. How then do I discover my potentials? The more the potential you release the more that comes in. God did not create anybody empty.

HOW TO DISCOVER YOUR POTENTIALS

(1) Appreciate your uniqueness
(2) Place value on your self
(3) Travel into yourself and find out the things you can do better.
(4) Let go the past.
(5) Create a time
(6) Read materials that can influence yourself and expose you.

APPRECIATE YOUR UNIQUENESS

Everyone was created differently but you have the power to know what you were created for. You need to appreciate what you were created for and why were you created. Some people were created to make things happen, watch things happen. The one in you is more than money which means it cannot be bought but celebrated. Do not look down on yourself but appropriate what is in you.

PLACE VALUE ON YOURSELF

The value in you is what makes you place value on yourself. Until you place value on yourself people see you as valueless and that makes you a mockery to people. There is a value in you that you need to discover and know what it worth. If you are paid salary that salary you are paid is for your job not your work. Your work is doing that which is from your value and you have passion for. People only work for money not for the value in them to be a blessing to people and they think they don’t have value. The day you know your value that is the day you start enjoying the reward.

TRAVEL INTO YOURSELF

You need to go into your mind and discover what you are created for which I call travel into yourself .search yourself deeply and you will discover it in no time.

LET GO THE PAST

The past has to do with the place you live, your purpose, events, and occurrences and so on. The bible made us to understand that until you let the past pass with the past you cannot move forward which means until you let go the past your potentials will still be idle. The past may kill your potential. The environments you have live may be that is what is influencing you negatively, ignore it because is of the past. It may be you did not discover who you are earlier in life but you think is late it is not because you can still discover it.

CREATE A TIME

Create a time to discover your potential and make sure is the appointed time. At age 20 you should have discover your potential and at 50 they are all realized. Create the right time for your potential if mot you will just be sleeping with your potentials and dieing with it.

READ MATERIALS THAT CAN INFLUENCE AND EXPOSE YOU

Reading must be your everyday habits. Read materials related with your potentials. I will encourage you to read books according to your age this means if your potential is on writing and you are 20 years old you need to read 20 books on writings. Where you are now, someone has been there before and knows what it takes. You need to get addicted to books of people who have being there before or still there but must be proven. Until you understand your books you cannot be above your peers. The materials you read announce you to the world and not only that it impact lives.

I am a writer based in Nigeria and I run an organisation by God;s grace called army of change. I have two written unpublished books.

Art Lesson on Saturday With Monet

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

“You can’t sketch the Monét paintings,” the docent told me. She did not realize what a true statement she had spoken. Shocked for a moment, I replied, “No problem. I can’t even draw a straight line with a ruler.”

Pausing, I told her I only wanted to write the names of the paintings in the museum we would view that day. I remember we had a designated appointment time to tour the museum, however, there were so many other people there I don’t know how anyone could have known who was on time or not.

The only east coast exhibition of Monet’s art, a once in a lifetime opportunity and thanks to the generosity of a friend who purchased my ticket as a gift for my birthday, we both enjoyed our art lesson on Saturday.

Carrying my notebook close to my side, I quickly wrote the names of each painting because I wanted to remember a few highlights of the day at the museum.

After almost a year had passed since we visited the Monét exhibit, I decided to review my notes and count the actual number of paintings we had seen. Imagine my surprise when I realized the total number was fifty. When I see paintings now by Monét, I remember glimpses of those paintings we saw in the Raleigh, North Carolina Art Museum last year, which connect other thoughts of creativity, art and life.

Collecting books, quotes, comics, compact discs, and movies, I happened upon one of Audrey Hepburn’s quotes, “Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can’t take it all in at once.”

Audrey Hepburn is right. Immersed in the Monét exhibit, I felt I had visited and learned about other parts of the world through the eyes of this impressionist. However, the realization of what I experienced in the art museum over a year ago is stronger today than it was in November last year.

Angela Scott
© September 19, 2007

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Inspiration from News Aggregation Sites

Monday, August 20th, 2007

So we need a means of breaking the habit.

An effective way to do this is to become active on sites such as Engcom and Slashdot (links can be found in resources at the bottom. These sites cater to the engineering and IT markets respectively but you should be able to find similar sites in your areas of interest. The sites promote themselves as an aggregation of news from around the web but the real value in the sites comes from the discussions. Most forums seem to follow a similar pattern of topics after a while and can become boring. These sites however use the news as a basis for starting the conversations and so you can get great diversity in the topics. For instance with Engcom you can find engineers discussing topics that I’m sure they would not end up discussing in their normal every day lives. And this can often lead to interesting conversation. For example, would you discuss the implications of using stretchable metals in motor vehicles in your normal everyday conversations? And would such a discussion open your mind to potentially new ways to look at other things. Now what if you were becoming involved in non normal topics of discussion like this on a regular basis. Not only that but you can find out many different views on a topic which can be great for expanding your knowledge and also important for what we started off searching for which was inspiration.

Sure you can search the news sites yourself and discuss with your friends. But again you fall into a trap because again there is the danger you will fall in to a routine in where you look for articles and whom you discuss those articles with.

Engcom also offers a few other avenues for inspiration. They offer a few side features to help lighten things up. The first is their Grid (resource 1) which is similar to the MillionDollarWebpage from a few years back except open to all members of the site and a bit more dynamic. It is a picture that is open to be edited by everyone. Quite interesting to see how a collaborative and evolving picture ends up.

Their other feature is an interactive demonstration of a slide rule (resource 2). Since the advent of calculators they haven’t been used much but again the ideas behind their functioning are quite clever, and simple, yet not obvious. Learning about such ideas can be great for starting off your imagination on different tangents.

So why not take a look at these sites today and see if they change your line of thinking. Then see what else you can find out there. There’s a whole web of inspiration waiting..

Engcom.net’s Grid - a collaborative image:
http://www.engcom.net/index.php?option=com_grid&Itemid=59

Engcom.net’s Virtual Slide Rule:
http://www.engcom.net/index.php?option=com_sliderule&Itemid=67

Slashdot - another news aggregation site:
http://www.slashdot.org

Create Idea Margins

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

As a professional, you need as many ideas as you can possibly generate (or capture). Don’t let the good ones get away. This article gives you specific means for generating and then capturing all the great ideas you come up with–no matter where you are. This will ensure that you have “margins” of ideas when you need them. Richard Swenson defines margins as the “space that once existed between ourselves and our limits. It’s something held in reserve for contingencies or unanticipated situations.”

To create your idea margins, you must be ready to snag any and all ideas as they occur, because sometimes when you need a good idea, it doesn’t come then. (Darn it!) At any given moment (some of which are more convenient than others), ideas will come to you. Some of these ideas are major, some are minor, but when you don’t capture the ideas, they whirl around in your head. This not only diverts your attention away from the other work or pleasure on which you need to be focusing but it’s also risky to ignore them because they might not come back!

Try one or more of these ideas for capturing your ideas as they’re occurring, so you have them for later processing (and don’t miss the two ideas that are especially meant to help you generate loads of ideas!)

  1. When you’re at your desk, write down ideas on pieces of paper and drop them into your inbox for later processing.
  2. Have an “idea” tab in your planner (or your PDA). Write down incoming ideas in a designated spot.
  3. Call and leave yourself voicemail messages. I do it all the time when I’m driving (a prime time for ideas to arrive, unbidden!)
  4. Record ideas on a voice or digital recorder. There are tiny ones available and many cell phones also have this feature.
  5. Send yourself email. If the idea pops into your head when you are working on email, just send one to yourself with the idea.
  6. Keep a pad nearby that you love to write on and delight in jotting down thoughts and ideas as they come to you.
  7. Snag one of the omnipresent post-it notes that are around–or keep a small packet of them in a pocket or pouch. Later, you can flesh out the idea but for now, you just need to get it written down.
  8. Invest in the perfect pen so you’ll have a positive feeling about the idea as you write it down.

Now what if you need to generate an abundance of ideas? Here are two keys for doing so–and expanding your idea margins:

  1. Get out a fresh pad or open up a new document on your computer. Write a question at the top of the page and then number from 1 - 30. Start writing possible solutions or ideas that will address the question you started with. Don’t edit, don’t censor, don’t worry about plausibility. Just write. The first 15 are likely to be fairly run-of-the-mill ideas. But you have to clear those out first. On about idea #15 or 16 or so, new and different ideas will emerge–and you couldn’t have gotten to those until you cleared out the old ideas. Feel free to blast right past #30, but at least get to 30. You will surprise yourself.
  2. Mind map by putting an issue, question, or word prompt in the middle of a large (at least 11 x 17″) piece of paper. Then just draw spokes out from the center node and start writing (or drawing) what comes to you. Keep going. You will surprise yourself, I promise.

Whew! You are chock-full of ideas. And you’ve captured them so they are ready for you when you need them. You have margins of ideas! Hooray!

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I Ching Readings for Wiser Decision Making

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

People have been using the I Ching for help in making decisions for several thousand years. In ancient China, the questions might have been about royal marriage alliances or whether to go to war; nowadays, you might ask about which job to take, whether to buy a house, whether to stick with a relationship or leave it. It’s a natural place to begin when choosing a question for the I Ching: we start by deciding what to do, before we worry about how we’re going to manage it.

What we’re really doing when we make a decision is deciding between possible futures.
“What would my life look like if I lived here?”
“What would it be like to commit to this relationship?”
We’re trying to imagine what lies further along the road - and of course, it’s easy to get lost in a maze of speculation, disoriented by fear and desire.

Asking the I Ching ‘What if I did this?’ is a way to get beyond mere speculation or guesswork. It makes our projections into the future more grounded and accurate, less prone to subjective distortions.

But it does more than that. We imagine that we have to think things through, work them out logically. Actually, that’s not the best way to take big decisions, because it only uses a tiny part of our mental and spiritual resources. When you participate deeply in an I Ching reading, you move out of the ‘rat-in-a-maze’ experience of intellectual processing, and into the realm of the intuition and the unconscious. You can feel the quality of a decision, and know whether it resonates with you.

And that leads to another way to use the I Ching in your decision-making - maybe a better way. You can ask about how a decision would work out ‘out there’, but this is really only half of the picture. The exact same circumstances could be a good outcome for one person, a bad one for someone else. One person’s exciting challenge might be another person’s over-commitment, for instance. Just considering external circumstances isn’t a very reliable or helpful way to take decisions.

So when choosing a question for the I Ching, instead of asking, ‘What would happen if I did this?’ you could ask, ‘What would it mean for me to do this?’ Then you move into the answer and explore how it feels. Does this resonate with who you are? Is this you?

Big decisions aren’t just about what you do, they’re about who you are and who you’re becoming. And the I Ching offers a unique and beautiful way to explore these things, to bring your actions and your self into harmony.

Hilary Barrett is the I Ching diviner at I Ching with Clarity. Her site offers free membership that includes a complete introductory I Ching course, with all you need to know to start consulting the oracle for yourself. There’s also a warm and friendly I Ching Community, and downloadable resources to help you develop and deepen your own relationship with the I Ching.

Getting Greater Creativity by Getting Past the Fear of Failure

Friday, June 29th, 2007

Most all of us would like everyone on our teams to be more creative (including ourselves). We celebrate the creative genius, dream of the breakthrough product or service idea, and marvel at those who can make these things happen.

As a leader you know that higher levels of creativity can make your teams more successful, productive and feel more satisfied in their work. The upsides to high levels of creativity are many. The downsides are few, but the biggest one is people’s fear of making a mistake, being wrong or failing.

As a leader you can increase people’s creative output by reducing this downside risk. When you can reduce people’s fear of failure you unleash their ability and willingness to try something new, to think differently, and to solve problems more creatively.

Here are seven specific suggestions that will help you reduce the real, and perceived, risks of failure and therefore skyrocket the creativity of those around you.

Seven Suggestions

Celebrate ideas (even though you know they won’t all work). The first step to greater creativity and innovation is more ideas. If you want great ideas you must have a larger pool to draw from. In order to get those ideas you must celebrate, value and appreciate them. People feel ownership to their ideas, so you must treat them with the same deep respect that they have for them. So, the first step toward reducing the fear of failure is getting the ideas to start with!

Let people try it in a small way first. The idea doesn’t have to be implemented across the globe. Let people try their ideas in a small test; with one division, one department or in one office. Let them try it themselves first. Give people the confidence to try in small ways. This lowers the risk of failure and allows them to hone the idea for greater future success. Many people do this for the second reason, but the first reason – to make people comfortable in trying it – it just as important.

Give people a test budget. Why not give a person or a team an amount of money, resources and/or time to try out their ideas? Give them free reign to innovate and try things that are in alignment with your team and organizational goals. Their ideas, their budget, their results – be they success or failure. When we feel more complete ownership, we are less likely to be stymied by the fear of failure.

Let go of your perceived notions. You can be a big barrier to your group’s creativity. Let’s face it: others are trying to come up with good ideas, but they are likely filtering them (consciously or not) based on their perception of whether you will like, agree with or support those ideas. You are a block to the process! If you are willing to let people test things out, you need to get your opinions out of the way. Can you have an opinion? Sure. Can you even share it? Of course! What you don’t want to do is allow your opinion to be the block to the idea. Give people the go-ahead to test and then share your concerns so that those ideas might help improve their test. Share your thoughts first and you run the risk of them abandoning the fragile idea too soon.

Model by failing yourself. Am I suggesting you fail? Yes. More than that I am suggesting you let people know when you fail. If you show your willingness to fail and your openness to mistakes you will gradually make other more willing to try as well. You are a leader and you are being watched. Model the behaviors you want to see in others – take a risk!

Celebrate the failures as well as the successes! Consider an award for failures or mistakes. Many organizations have recognition for great ideas that are implemented successfully. Why not have a travelling trophy that celebrates a mistake done in pursuit of team or organizational goals? Even the best baseball players only get a hit one out of every three tries – likewise the more tries your team takes – the more hits they will get. Celebrate tries – even if they lead to failures.

Redefine failure. Failure need not be final, though that is how many view it. Model using your failures as fertilizer for future success! Teach others how to learn from their mistakes by asking reflective questions (ask yourself the same questions too). When we use well-meaning failures as learning opportunities, we take much of the emotional sting out of them.

Pick one of these suggestions and implement it today. You may see immediate results, but if you don’t realize that people have built up their fear over a long period of time – and not just at work. Stick with these suggestions; practicing them regularly. You will chip away at the fear and uncertainty, and unleash the new ideas, approaches, and solutions that you have always dreamed of.

Kevin Eikenberry is a leadership expert and the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group, a learning consulting company that helps Clients reach their potential through a variety of training, consulting and speaking services. To receive your free special report on Unleashing Your Potential go to http://www.kevineikenberry.com/uypw/index.asp or call us at (317) 387-1424 or 888.LEARNER.

Does Lack Of Talent Prevent You From Drawing With Heart?

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

Don’t you need a special gift to be able to draw ? Though you’re creative in other ways, you might cringe at the thought of having to draw anything real.

If you were born with the potential for verbal language, then why would you not have the potential for visual language as well ? Prehistoric people made cave drawings even before they developed written language. Just look at pictures of the cave drawings in Lascaux, France, as fresh and lively as any today.

This is no myth:
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We are all born with the potential for every talent. So why do only a few develop their talent to draw ? You may have learned humiliation from your first experiments of drawing in childhood. Fears may have grown to protect you ever since from more wounding.

Inside you is this wild potential for drawing things full of life. Thinking about trying to draw with your critical mind, only scares it away. Just like capturing a wild horse with threats or force, trying to imitate reality with your critical mind will frighten away any relationship you might have with your undiscovered potential.

Just because you don’t see it, doesn’t mean it’s not there.
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People used to tame wild horses by breaking their spirit. It took several days before horses would lose their freedom and obey out of fear. Their natural potential to trust a partnership with people was never given a chance.

Now, some sensitive “horse whisperers” take care to win wild horses’ trust with understanding. Within minutes these sensitive, intelligent animals want to live and work with the people who respect them, of their own free will.

Instead of avoiding drawing that scares you, take a closer look at your fears with wild horses in mind. Fears are there to protect you from danger. Through appreciation and respect, you can build and strengthen trust and dissolve your fears.

So how can you find your wild drawing potential ?
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A sensitive trainer can help you approach your wild potential from the inside by trusting your heart. Within a few minutes, it is possible for you to discover the first glimpse of your inborn natural ability to draw. Not expecting to imitate or capture anything, you can see for yourself proof of your raw talent.

Before, if you believed your own critical mind, you lost all trust, and your sense of inner knowing. Now, if you can only trust your heart, it will know beyond a doubt that this is your own natural visual language finally awakening.

Fear itself is not the enemy. It’s fear of facing fear that cripples us. A good horse trainer will recognize wild horses’ fear and work with it to earn their trust. You can learn to be your own horse whisperer, trust your heart and lose your fears, without breaking your spirit or losing your freedom.

Drawing things full of life has nothing to do with being born special. Your beliefs and expectations - and not outer circumstances - are the only thing holding you back. How cool is that ? How empowering to be master of finding and freeing your own artistic potential!

About the Author

Hello, I’m Celeste Varley and it is my passion to work with people to discover, uncover, and recover their wild creative potential. You can learn to draw with heart like you’ve never imagined ! If this article speaks to your heart, you may want to see more “Fresh Horses” articles on my website. Check it out and see if it’s right for you.
Celeste Varley
http://www.heartsongstudio.com
Discover, uncover & recover
your wild creative potential!

Sanctuary of Your Own

Monday, June 4th, 2007

Have you ever wished for a place where you can feel at peace, but do not want to go where other people would likely be? Have you considered making your own peaceful place—a sanctuary? It is not difficult to create a sanctuary—it is important, however, to create your sanctuary that speaks to you.

Whether, you have a huge yard, a grassy area, a porch, balcony or patio to create a magnificent sanctuary, your creative potential is infinite. If you are drawn to specific themes—Zen, angels, paradise, or the ethereal, explore them. Décor and furniture manufactured from natural wood and stone, blend well with nature. However, you can augment the natural world by filling your garden sanctuary with statues, bells, chimes, gongs, or colorful flowers and plants. Running water—a stream or fountain, helps energy flow smoothly. If space is limited, mirros and crystals can fulfill the same function. Hidden features like concealed swings and reflecting pools veiled in shadow can create a delight scene. As your nature sanctuary evolves, remember to invite the elemental spirits of nature to assist you in your efforts to create harmony, beauty, and peace. If you have not already felt the spirits’ presence, sit quietly in your space and reach out to them. You will feel these earthly guides at your side as you continue to develop and enjoy your sanctuary.

Humans are blessed with an innate need to celebrate and glorify life. At a most basic level, we need to honor the forces that came together to bring us into being by caring for our bodies and our souls. To truly rejoice in existence, we need to learn to cultivate loveliness in those special places that replenish the soul. When we create a living sanctuary, we are reminded that we are a part of both nature’s essence and something more. Your outdoor sanctuary is a place you can surround yourself in nature, beauty, and the life force.

Dorothy M. Neddermeyer, PhD, Life Coach, Hypnotherapist, Author, “101 Great Ways To Improve Your Life.” Dr. Dorothy has the unique gift of connecting people with a broad range of profound principles that resonate in the deepest part of their being. She brings awareness to concepts not typically obvious to one’s daily thoughts and feelings. http://www.drdorothy.net

Why Would You Learn To Draw Over The Phone?

Friday, May 18th, 2007

What holds you back from drawing? Probably some shame lingers from humiliations in the past. You might have learned that your efforts were wrong or unworthy. So you’ve remained wounded, limited by old fears. Sometimes ignorance is bliss, when you’re too busy to open to new possibilities. What you don’t know can’t hurt you. . . or help you either.

How do you jump the hurdle of learning to draw, without exposing yourself to others in the class watching ? Sure you’d like to learn to draw, but not at the risk of being shamed all over again. Learning to draw in a live class is just a hotbed of possibilities for more humiliation. Who needs a teacher standing over you ? Or, other learners watching your stumbling efforts ? Yuk ! And how do you find a class nearby ?
So how can you possibly learn to draw over the phone? Seems absurd, a compromise at best. Or so I thought until I tried teaching heart-centred drawing by teleclass. It blew our minds wide open !

Your goal is to draw things that look real, right? Trouble is, by putting all your focus on the end product, you can’t experience the process. Even if you take part in spite of all fear of ridicule, the end result still overshadows you. So how can you learn to draw with heart if you don’t look at the results?

By allowing space to focus all your attention on the process, you aren’t ignoring the results, you’re just postponing judging them. Sitting alone, unwatched, guided only by the teacher’s voice, you can go deep inside, connect with your heart, and let the process flow. Still trusting your heart, you will see the end results differently.

Most first time drawers from within are totally surprised. This arm’s length guidance, allows you to get closer to your true self in privacy. Doors will be opened to possibilities like you’ve never imagined.

Take your new drawing while you’re still stunned by it, scan it or photograph it, and put it up on your monitor. Wow ! There it is, front and centre, all framed, lighted, and focused. Your critical mind will have to admit that your results look pretty darn amazing.

You’ll know that you couldn’t have reached these results had you tried with your “doing” mind. Your heart has shown your judgmental mind what it never knew before - the magic of putting the creative process first. It feels good too and it’s fun. As well as learning to draw with heart, overcoming fears unleashes powerful creative energy, and awakens countless possibilities for deeper personal growth.

About the Author

Hello, I’m Celeste Varley and it is my passion to work with people to discover, uncover, and recover their wild artistic potential. You can learn to draw with heart like you’ve never imagined ! If this article speaks to your heart, you may want to see more “Fresh Horses” articles on my website. Check it out and see if it’s right for you.

Celeste Varley
http://www.heartsongstudio.com
Discover, uncover & recover
your wild artistic potential!