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CREATIVE SUCCESS NEWSLETTER
Creative Success Newsletter, Number 47--September
2004
Strategies for Creative Souls Series
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**Announcements
Out on a Limb Club Online#2
Sign up for our new Out on a Limb club teleclass beginning September
14th and continuing on October 12th and November 16th. Don't let
2004 end without making headway in your creative development and
taking the risks necessary to increase fulfillment in your life.
The price will go up in 2005, so sign up now and join a group of
supportive like-minded others and explore your personal achievement
style, your true intentions and desires, and dynamite away your
fear and hesitations.
Comments from other classes:
“Gail is a great facilitator who helped me get to the core
of my resistance and redirect my energy in the right direction.”
“This class was a super catalyst for me. I am now photographing
everyday, have my work in three galleries, and will be featured
in a major art magazine in the Spring.”
“This Club gave me the courage to ramp my business up to the
next level and make vacations a regular event.”
To sign up for our September class and forward the action with your
intentions, click on
http://www.creativesuccess.com and click on the Out on a Limb Club
box on the right.
New Resources
Click on http://www.creativesuccess.com and see our new colorful
site with four new Gateways of Services: Activate Your Creativity,
Discover Fulfilling Work, Restore Inner Balance, and Grow Your Business.
We want this site to be a significant resource for this community,
so let us know if there are any great resources we ought to be linked
with!
***Strategy for Creative Souls #22: Forwarding the Action
Ah, September, the crest of summer. I feel compelled to capture
every possible moment of sunshine to recharge my solar self until
my winter get-a-way in the sunshine. Fall is a season of opportunity
and new commitments. By this time of year, do you even remember
what your New Year's Resolutions were? Have you stopped writing
or painting or visualizing the results that you pledged to yourself
on 12/31/03? If you gave up, Fall can be a new chance to forge ahead.
Quitting permanently is always dangerous to our self-regard. I offer
the following strategies to inspire new action:
*Face your failures. Write down what didn't work and why. Did you
set the wrong goal or create an unrealistic scenario for yourself?
Failure is part of the journey so leverage the learning and make
a new plan.
*Reconnect with the payoffs for your passion. Are you still excited
about your project or goal? If so, how can you add play or deepen
your connection to the meaningfulness of what you are doing? How
is your work spiritually inspired or of benefit to others? If you
are not passionate about what you are doing, you need to make a
new decision.
*Experiment-play around with possibilities until you find a formula
that suits your work and personal style. Creativity is about new
connections and experimentation is part of the challenge. If you
work best in large chunks of time, make it happen. You can, you
know.
*Subtract creative barriers. Release limiting beliefs, outmoded
ways of working, and anything or anyone else who eclipses your personal
power. Learning to set the boundaries that we need to is a daily
challenge. Learning to keep our promises to ourselves is life-changing
and self-loving, not selfish.
*Fortify yourself with support systems—groups, affirmations,
classes, treasure maps, creative symbols, time-lines, project software,
a support buddy, a coach, etc. to keep you confident and in action
mode. Avoid people who cannot genuinely tune into your true self.
*Celebrate what you have done right since January. Acknowledge all
your baby steps or giant steps on your path of progress. Make a
list or do something that nurtures your craft or your spirit or
throw a party for your support team to celebrate intentions fulfilled.
If you have done nothing, and I doubt that, honor your humaness
and start again. Everyday is a creative possibility.
****More Limiting Myths
My colleague Cynthia Morris wrote in to add one to the list of Limiting
Myths from last month's newsletter—the seasaw effect between
“I am not so great and Wow...I am amazing.” Thank you,
Cynthia. Cynthia's wonderful new book “Create Your Writer's
Life” is now available in print and you can order it at www.originalimpulse.com.
Myrna, from Florida says her favorite myth is that “all women
have husbands to do the hard stuff”. “Just today”,
she says, “I told Lowe's Hardware home office that women own
homes and that they needed to inform their vendors that real women
buy sand, gravel, and mulch, etc. and they need to make smaller
bags of it, so we can carry it. I'm good for 25-30 pounds, but I
don't want to injure myself. They said, 'But we have people to help
you load your car'. Then I said, “But who is taking it out
of the car and then using it?” Great idea, Myrna! Those bags
are back breakers.
*****Creative Acts and Resources
Coaching Circle Circle for Creative, Enterprising Women in Morgantown,
WV
Join psychologist Linda Sandel Petit for a 6 week in-person circle
on Thursday evenings beginning 9/30 and find the wisdom for getting
“unstuck.” Clarify who you are and where you are, set
goals, simplify your next steps, and overcome self-limiting thinking.
Linda is a talented facilitator, so take advantage of this opportunity
if you live in the area.
Wimpy Words Zap Creative Juices
Are wimpy words costing you business? If you struggle to explain
who you are and what you do, you have less juice to shout out your
message and rock the world or generate new creative ideas. If you
want the power to communicate from the heart in a way people can
grasp immediately, sign up for the Work on Words Teletraining with
Isabel Parlett and Mary Schaefer at www.parlancetraining.com. The
next session starts on 9/23 at 2 PM EST.
Creatively yours,
Gail McMeekin
Career, Creativity, and Life Choices Coaching, Consulting, and Writing
www.creativesuccess.com
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