Creative Success - Gail McMeekin, coaching, careers, creativity, women, stress, life choices,

Creative Success Newsletter, Number 58--August 2005

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Success Strategy #33: Embracing Your Resistance and Procrastination

Have you ever set a creative project target date for yourself and just not been able to make yourself do it? Before you simply quit and label yourself a hopeless procrastinator or a weak person, ask yourself these key questions:

1) Is my heart truly in this project?

2) Is there another project that I need to finish first or do instead?

3) What do I want to be doing with my time instead of doing this project? Sometimes we are too stressed or distracted to do our best work.

4) Why is the work not flowing easily? If it does not feel like fun or a challenge, something is off.

5) Do I need to change the focus or the format?

6) What message does my intuition have for me about the rightness of this project?

7) Is fear blocking any aspect of the resistance? Sometimes fears about selling our work can eclipse its creation.

Tuning into the truth about what's truly not working sets us free to focus on the best next steps and forward the action. I had planned to complete my Creative Time Catcher E-course this August but discovered that I needed to transform it into a visual/multi-media experience to fulfill my creative vision. I need to make time to paint first and play with images to uncover the perfect metaphor. Trust your instincts. Give your muse and your psyche what it needs, or accept that you need to get support.

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Creative Acts and Resources

I am very committed to destroying the myth that creative people are doomed to become "starving artists." My life purpose is empowering creative men and woman to stay inspired, achieve their goals, and to enjoy all of life's riches. Rebecca Fine also wants you to be prosperous and will send you the thoughtful book The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles at no charge. Changing your mind will truly change your life. To get your download, click on:

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Creatively yours,

Gail McMeekin

Executive/Career/Creativity/Life Choices Coach and Writer
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