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The image above of my work table shows a scene I cherish:
50 new paintings completed,
a stack of under paintings at the ready,
a brand new project journal to document the process,
(in background) huge stack of frames ready for sanding, priming, painting,
a full up project journal from the first seven months of the project, jammed with notes, [...]
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Spring fever anyone?
Want to start (and finish) a new project that will serve your creative process?
For the next 5 weeks, every Thursday in April, I’ll be walking you through one of my most favorite creative practices: making and using Mini-Journals.
Mini-journals are quick and easy to make, using supplies you likely already have in the house, [...]
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March 30 marks the end of the first quarter of 2010. This is a great time to assess where you are at with any new projects or plans initiated at the new year.
For several years now, I’ve been experimenting with month-end and week-end project briefs. This is a simple checks and balances process where I [...]
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Disorientation is the perfect word for my experience right now.
Before I go into why, I want to frame this conversation constructively.
How do we stay on track with our plans and goals and daily actions, when we have a series of setbacks? I know many of you have some great strategies for this, so I’m hoping [...]
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Recently I’ve gotten back into the habit of setting intentions on the new moon. It’s supposed to be time of strong energy for new beginnings.
The idea is that the intention you set at the new moon will come to fruition at the next new moon. So if you try this, and are working on your [...]
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Photo by Tamsim Slater.
In Part 1 of this series on Goal Setting for Creatives, I introduced the annual planning process I use to create and track my goals for the coming year. Out of this process, I create my own Strategic Planner, which is a portable, visual booklet that serves as a beautiful and practical [...]
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As I toil away on Part 4 of the Strategic Planner series on Goal Setting for Creatives, I keep thinking about how much it’s the small, seemingly insignificant things we do on a daily basis that are the most powerful in moving us forward toward our goals.
Or away, as the case may be.
So, because I [...]
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Well. I’ve fallen off the wagon as it were. A little. Or maybe a lot.
I just checked the date on my computer calendar and am startled to realize we’re well into the first week of February.
Which means January has come and gone and now it’s time for an official accounting of paintings completed. This will [...]
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Disorientation seems an apt painting to launch Update #4 on my 1008 Painting Project which finds me:
Up at midnight when I really want to be/should be sleeping
Very happy about how day #1 of the How to be a Gorgeous Genius retreat is going (I’m absolutely in awe of the people who trekked down to Mexico [...]
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In Part 1 of this series on Goal Setting for Creatives, I introduced the annual planning process I use to create and track my goals for the coming year. Out of this planning, I create my own Strategic Planner, which is a portable, visual booklet that serves as a beautiful and practical reference of the [...]
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Howdy! I’m Lisa Sonora Beam, author of The Creative Entrepreneur. I teach people how to get unstuck and use their creativity to make a living doing what they love. 
