How Do You Make The Time To Creatively Express Yourself?
Author: Misty Shaw
Between work, family, and the many obligations of life, where’s the time for YOU? How can you carve out the personal time to creatively express yourself? Do you have an inner artist that yearns to paint? Maybe you’ve enjoyed creating melodies with musical instruments. Is there a hobby you have enjoyed in the past, only to be shelved because of the obligations of everyday life? Your creative self can shine again, simply by making the time to get in touch with your inner creativity.
Read More »A Post About Nothing – Care to read it?
Did you ever write about nothing? What I mean by that is rather than planning what you will write you just start writing the first thing that pops into your mind. Sometimes I get the urge to write but I don’t always want to write about personal development or life coaching techniques. I also enjoy writing bout nothing.
Oddly enough when I do write posts about nothing, more often than not when I finish writing they turn into something. The message may not always be clear but it doesn’t always need to be.
Writing is a source of expression, it is a form of art. When I first started to write/blog I was judgmental about the output and I would try to refine and edit the article before publishing it. But not long after I realized that I could write anything that pops into mind because it is a form of art and my way of seeing the world.
The world is an ambiguous place so I feel my messages also need to be ambiguous sometimes. Different strokes for different folks – everyone sees the world in the way they see it. Although I might believe I am writing about nothing a reader might find something within the nothing. So really, who am I to say that this post is really about nothing?
My mind is now drawing a blank. There is nothing left for me to say about this post about nothing. I am curious, though, what did you get from this post?
Transmute The Creative Killer – The Negative Chatter in Our Mind
Are you one of those people that believe you don’t have a single ounce of creativity in you? If you believe that you are not creative and that you don’t draw or paint or something like that – essentially what you are saying is, I trust and believe my negative thinking – it serves me well. Are you sure that is what you want to believe?
Excitement! The Source of Inspiration That Will Inspire You
I am so excited about 2010. 2009 was an amazing year filled with accomplishments, successes, and many invaluable lessons. What I’m taking into 2010 from 2009 is excitement – I know when I get excited about something I make it happen, regardless of how big it is. To me, Its exciting to watch something materialize right before my eyes. It boosts my confidence and my ego too. It makes me want more.
Did I mention that I am excited to be a Motivational Speaker? I started the New Year with representation. The National Speakers Bureau represents me now, and they will book most of my upcoming speaking engagements. But the real reason I am excited is because I get to design these events to be as exciting as I can imagine it to be. Talk about “creative expression.”
Thankfully I took time off this past December, because I caught myself many times throughout the month imagining bits and pieces to the upcoming event I’m designing, it’s titled: “Fear and Success – Judgment Time”. The time off allowed me to submerge into my imagination to design the various aspects of the talk: How I will introduce the topic, the jokes I will tell, the experiences I will share and how I plan to illustrate the illusion many face when dealing with fear. I get to create this entire experience and share it with thousands and hopefully tens of thousands of people.
I will give credit where it’s owed. I’m inspired by what I saw in New York. If I am going to be successful as a Motivational Speaker I must be prepared to give it my all. Everything I have in me to deliver a highly effective and successful talk that will inspire and change the audience’s perception just as mine changed after being inspired by New York.
This is why I am excited about 2010. The entire year is a blank canvas for me to design a work of art. Everything I design will add texture and color to my canvas. I can’t wait to see what it looks like at the end of the year.
Trust you too are excited to create a work of art.
The Art of Expression
Every now and again I write about something that makes absolutely no sense. This happens when I have an urge to write but I don’t have a topic to write about. I guess that’s what is referred to as creative writing – writing that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, and technical forms of literature. But some how by the time I finish writing my thought, what I believe didn’t make sense starts to make sense.
I think what I am trying to say is that I miss writing just for writing. Free to write anything, anyway it comes out. There was a time when nobody knew about this blog. It was a hidden place on the Internet, a blog somewhere in cyberspace. It didn’t even have an incoming link from my life coaching website. Without eyes reading, I wrote anything and sometimes it really didn’t make any sense, it just felt good to spit out my thoughts.
I’m an advocate for creative expression. I believe everybody should have a source of expression. It could be anything from playing a musical instrument, creating art, writing, singing, it really could be anything that works for you. I have a few of my own. Writing is my primary source. I also play the saxophone although I want to learn how to play the flute. I love playing rock band, and jamming on the guitar. Baking and cooking is definitely up there, as is creating a piece of art. It just feels so good after every experience. I feel relaxed and centered.
I started this post without a thought – a blank canvas for me to express whatever I was feeling. Now I see why I wrote what I did. It’s a reminder to me: How important it is to express my authentic self. To continue to write from the heart and to let things happen the way it’s meant to be.
Merry Christmas
