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Note: This article is Part 4 in a 5 Part series called Mini-Journaling to Max Your Creativity. Just tuning in? Start with Part 1 here, or just go back a read it later.
How hard do you try to get everything just right before you take action?
Do you abandon projects before you complete them?
Or do you [...]
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love vs. fear: the gloves are off!
Note: This article is Part 2 in a 5 Part series called Mini-Journaling to Max Your Creativity. Just tuning in? Get Part 1 here.
In Part 2, Fear Itself, I brought up a few points about our friend, Fear:
Fear stops us from doing, and then stops us from dreaming. [...]
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Note: This article is Part 2 in a 5 Part series called Mini-Journaling to Max Your Creativity. Just tuning in? Get Part 1 here.
The image above is a groovy congratulations card received when The Creative Entrepreneur was first released in the November, 2008.
You’ll learn how I made a groovy mini-journal out of that card from [...]
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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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This week’s journal peek is brought to you from Cafe Los Cuiles in Oaxaca City, one of my favorite hangouts with good food, coffee, and a reliable Internet connection.
Since I spend long hours painting and writing alone in my studio, I like to take the opportunity to work in cafes whenever possible.
At Cafe Los Cuiles, [...]
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Today, despite still dealing w/a raging fever and the strange illness that has taken over my body with a vengeance (reported on in last post asking folks how they deal with setbacks), I have some happy news in the form of a visual journal peek.
Today is the last day of the 100 days my boyfriend [...]
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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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What inspired this series of paintings?
1008 Meditations on the Human Condition: The Evolution of an Idea
Each painting in this series takes as it’s title some kind of disorder or behavioral, psychological or physical condition that I’ve culled from medical encyclopedias and dictionaries from the 1960s.
As I looked through these encyclopedias, it was sobering to grasp [...]
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A couple weeks ago, during a strategic planning review, I thought about setting a new, small daily action around creativity, which is one of my areas of focus.
The 1008 Paintings Project has been lurching along in fits and starts, and wondered if setting up some kind of daily action in this department would help smooth [...]
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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. 
