This month’s CED Theme of Small is a magical part of my therapy. When I feel the frustration of wanting to do more in the midst of physically not being able to … I think: Start Small. Small counts. Baby steps allow for progress. And progress is progress. This past Saturday I planted seeds. The [...]
{click on image to view full-size/notations} CreAtive. Every. Day. I remember a couple (a few? more?) years ago when I learned about the fabulous @leah_art’s // Creative Every Day {Challenge} ♥ I can remember being excited about the idea of creAting something every day. Then … I wondered, “What does that mean? How will I [...]
How do you move beyond the crowd? The most influential person who will talk to you all day, is you. So, you should be very careful what you say to you. ~Zig Ziglar Despite working as a creAtive consultant for most of my adult years, I am still delighted {and grin like a little child} [...]
Things start as hopes and end up as habits. ~Lillian Hellman For the past three years I have moved through hopin’ and wishin’ and want-to — and wondering, “Am I truly an artist?” — to the place where I actually feel like {believe I am} a actual participant of Leah Piken Kolidas’ {Art Every Day [...]
Today can be a day full of excuses and regrets, or it can be a day full of progress and achievement. The choice is completely up to you. ~Ralph Marston When we are away from routine busyness, we can resume our schedules with precision that comes from a decluttered mind. {Or we can trudge back [...]
CreAtive planner —noun a person who {dares to plan outside the lines} and.or {un}plans, doodles, scribbles and rips paper as part of said process. a {handmade; collaged or otherwise artistically altered} book of days, ponderings and possibly appointments, to-do’s quotations, etc. Instead of adapting yourself to an {un}creAtive mode of goal-setting and planning — why [...]
There are opportune moments in life when you find yourself barely able to move in the midst of you own expectations. You stare at the closed door to your {windowless room of} Routines and Busyness — and the walk-in closet {harboring the opinions of others} as it overflows into this room. A room packed full [...]
Shoot for the moon—even if you miss it, you will land among the stars. ~Les Brown Where do you see yourself regarding your goals? Are you taking aim? Do you have a target in sight? Have you been focused on the same goal(s) for so long, you are hitting bulls-eyes every time? If you’re hitting [...]
Lingo for strategic planning became a part of my vocabulary while I was in graduate school for my MBA. Incorporating new terms for existing habits is one of my quirky traits. Terms serve me by providing clarity and boundaries to the wavy lines of my thoughts. For example, although we don’t go around claiming to [...]
This is an intriguing practice. Particularly since I recently realized that — instead of adding three letters to the end of my name via higher education — said practice during the past year yielded a much more {practical} learning experience. A learning experience that has equipped me to continue in the direction of dreams. Discovery [...]