~ CREATIVITY CONTRACT ~
My name is ___________________. I am a recovering creative person. To further my growth and my joy, I now commit myself to the following self-nurturing plans:
Morning pages have been an important part of my self-nurturing and self-discovery. I, __________________, hereby commit myself to continuing to work with them for [...]
Archive for the ‘Artist's Dates’ Category
Creativity Contract – Will you sign?
Posted in Artist's Dates, Contributor Posts, Ideas, Inspirations, Miscellaneous, The Artist's Way, Thoughts on May 7, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Life is an artist’s date…
Posted in Artist's Dates, Contributor Posts, Ideas, Inspirations, The Artist's Way, Thoughts on April 30, 2008 | 9 Comments »
… We want to do something but we think it needs to be the right something, by which we mean something important.
We are what’s important, and the something that we do can be something festive but small…
Synchronicity has struck again.
I’ve not written a post more poignant to me than this one on “imagination at play”. [...]
Tell me yours & I’ll tell you mine…
Posted in Artist's Dates, Contributor Posts, Ideas, Inspirations, The Artist's Way on February 16, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Fantasty artist’s date that is…
Mine couldn’t possibly be a fantasy without being in France – somewhere in the South, preferably. The day would be sunny and I’d be walking about in a small village – cobblestone streets, of course – with some chic outfit on, looking the epitome of creative class. Of course, it couldn’t [...]
The Artist Date
Posted in Artist's Dates, Contributor Posts, The Artist's Way on February 13, 2008 | 16 Comments »
In addition to doing the morning pages, one of the essential components of TAW program is completing an Artist Date once a week. The artist date is basically a “play date”with your inner artist – to be completed solo! It may be any activity or excursion that you find nurtures your creative self. [...]
::: Housekeeping :::
Posted in Artist's Dates, Ideas, Miscellaneous, Morning Pages, The Artist's Way, Thoughts on February 8, 2008 | 6 Comments »
UPDATE: We are bumping our start date up to Sunday, February 10th! Please get your books out, start reading and be prepared to start the exercises then!
Allow me to start this post by imploring you to make allowances for me as this is my first time doing anything of this nature. Indeed, I’ve never conducted [...]
Some Thoughts On Commitment…
Posted in Artist's Dates, Contributor Posts, Ideas, Inspirations, Morning Pages, Synchronicity, The Artist's Way, Thoughts on January 29, 2008 | 6 Comments »
A couple years ago, I came across a quote from Oprah’s magazine in her “What I know for Sure” column. Yes, ladies and gentlemen – I’m a pretty big Oprah fan. Anyway, it was at the top of the page, printed in bold letters. It said, “Once you decide what you want, you make a [...]
Welcome!!
Posted in Artist's Dates, Hurdles, Ideas, Inspirations, Miscellaneous, Morning Pages, Successes, Synchronicity, The Artist's Way, Thoughts on January 20, 2008 | 15 Comments »
Welcome to The Artist’s Way Blog!
I really hope that this blog will be a success and a huge help to the creatives out there – whatever your medium might be – who need a bit of unblocking, motivation or a serious intervention.
What you will need for this journey:
The book – The Artist’s Way
A notebook, journal
A [...]