My Process (Evolving)
To keep my creative circuit flowing and my filament unbroken.
Live life to the fullest.
Be the kindest you can be.
You must build yourself a safe foundation; Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.
Protect your rest and creative time. At all costs.
Side effects: this can be extremely costly - you may not see your friends, take holidays, have as much sleep, rest or many days off but you know this is to prepare you for what’s to come.
Your upcoming leap.
Your next lobster shell for your expansive self.
Your lighter, connected, ready, miracle-making self.
When you believe and trust in life (yourself), life trusts in you.
How ready are you for its arrival? The arrival of your heart’s desires.
When your dream life arrives, how do you sustain it?
When you receive such magic, the generosity must be shared - otherwise your filament will blow.
We are vessels.
The amount we desire, is the amount we can receive.
“When you believe it, then you can receive it” the slogan that often visits my conversations with friends.
Our vessels expansion is how we grow as artists.
As learned from Christy Dena - if you develop the artist, you develop all of their creations.
A post-it note with “CLING TO YOURSELF LIKE A LIFE JACKET”, written about an hour and a half ago, is looking back at me. I think it’s because whilst our hungry ambition is undeniable, to cling is to tighten, wrap itself around - even to suffocate - and our creative process, our light, our expansion requires the opposite. To surrender. It turns out if you relax and just breathe you can float.
High ambition, low expectation
Surrender and trust in your natural, creative process.
You will receive what you’re ready for. If it comes, you are ready.
“We are, ourselves, creations. And we, in turn are meant to continue creativity by being creative ourselves.”
- Julia Cameron in The Artist’s Way
Don’t be afraid of the dark.
Obstacles are opportunities of expansion.
Grow through the pain. Metabolise.
{OBSTACLE} What can I learn from this? What behaviour might I need to change?
And screenwriter Phoebe Ephron was right. “Everything is copy”. She believed that life only hands you material that you can use in your work.
Artists are those who have found truths about themselves, about being alive, about the human experience and then found ways to express it.
Shared with love.
Love letter to desk pending…
Happy New Year Louise. And thanks for the plug😁
The fact is that every single moment of our lives is an act of creation. How exciting!
Sure some will feel more interesting and meaningful than others, but still "here is another opportunity, what will I do with it?"
Loved this balance between high ambitions and low expectations. It must be the secret to staying grounded, realistic, yet truly curious and inspired about the world, art, and people around.