Creative Adventures

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."
Jack London


Hello from Anne and Helen at Creations Unlimited LLC! We've shared some of our favorite tips to get and stay motivated to keep creating. Read on!

Motivation Magic

• Warm up with a small project that you can easily complete for quick results and tons of motivation to continue working.
• Try a cool new tool or technique and see where it takes you.
• Increase your repertoire by your actions, creating your form of art, as much and as often as possible. Keep it up and one day you, and others, will realize that you have developed a certain style. It will seem to have emerged as effortlessly as the sun comes up in the morning.
• Watch how small children play. They discover new and exciting things out of ordinary surroundings. They see what is in front of them, sticks, rocks, grass, flowers, water, dirt, leaves, living creatures. Their imagination soars. You see things too, but also in sensory ways such as textures, shapes, colors, fragrance, sounds, poetry.
• Drive somewhere special, or travel to a city or an area you have never been before. Sketch or note what you like about it.
• Fill your tank with inspiration: attend a farmer’s market, local festival, art show, library, or museum. Enjoy the visual feast. Read books and magazines. Load up on themes, trends, and excitement to keep up-to-date and fresh.
• Before you retire for the evening, prepare your workspace for the next day. Keep your supplies handy, your paint box full, paper at the ready, and sharpen your pencil.
• Ready, set, go! Jump in. Create something new to offer the world. You have as much time in a day as anybody else. Use it wisely. Write an appointment for your work in your planner, and then keep it. Get it done.
• Remember that you are not alone. Artists of all kinds all over the world are creating something new this very minute. Play music for company, take a class in person or online, work with someone on a project, or show your work to a supportive friend or family member for inspiration, feedback, and a new perspective.
• Go in the direction of your dreams. Trust your heart in your work. Immerse yourself in the adventures of creation and offer the world your best, most awesome work yet!
  

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HEADING IN THE DIRECTION OF YOUR DREAMS: Creative "Life Clarification" Questions

"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work."
Rita Mae Brown


Hello from Helen and Anne of Creations Unlimited, LLC! We've noticed that creative people tend to generate ideas in abundance. This can be a good thing if the ideas are edited and focus is applied to the best of the bunch. Consider the following questions to help ensure that your creative energies go where you want them to go, and not get scattered into the big, wide beyond.

CREATIVE "LIFE CLARIFICATION" QUESTIONS

1. From Your Past:

What life experiences have taught you the most and what did you learn?

Who were your best teachers and what did they teach you?

If time or money were not a factor, what activities would you pursue?

What areas of your formal education interested you most, and in which did you excel?
Are they the same areas?

In what genres have you pursued additional education or taught yourself?

What are the very best choices in life that you have made so far?

What are the greatest lessons you have learned from the past?

What has the potential to hold you back? How do you deal with these potential constraints?

How have you overcome obstacles in the past? How best might you assimilate that which you cannot or do not want to change?


2. For Your Present:

What is the purpose of your work?

Do you have goals, and plans to complete them? Do you focus time, attention, and resources on these goals and plans?

Are you heading in the direction of your dreams?

What results do you want? When do you want them?

Do these results also reflect what you value and not only what others value?

Who all benefits from your work? How does your work serve others?

Does your work clash with your values?

In what instances have you self-sabotaged your efforts because they conflict with your values or beliefs about yourself?

How might you better align your work goals to your values without compromising your values?

Do you:
a. evaluate your ideas
b. update your viewpoint regularly as you grow, mature, and gain experience to reflect your best self
c. live your positive beliefs with conviction?

Can you combine your work and values to strengthen, provide motivation for, and advance your life goals?

In the end, what do you hope to accomplish? How will your life contribute to the well-being of yourself, your family, community, and society?

How are your results so far?


3. In Your Future:

What is your specialty? What do you love to do?

What do you want others to know that could improve their lives?

How will you get your message out?

What is your vision for your future, your work and personal life, and your role in the world?

Have you considered the greater good in pursuing your creative work?

What quality do you and others think you possess in spades? How do you use this quality in your daily life?

If someone hosted a banquet to honor you, what trait, talent, or skill would the people attending say you excel at, and what would you like them to say?

What do you ultimately hope to achieve in your life?

What is most important to you? Do you spend the bulk of your time there?

What is your legacy? What do you want it to be?

Consider your place in the world, consider it well.



One parting thought:

"Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem."

Rollo May

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"Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere."
G.K. Chesterton

In the tumultuous world of today, we find it necessary to flip depression and pessimism on its head and express beauty in all the ways we see it. Our creative work, adventurous play, deep family ties, friendships, art, humor, and the immense satisfaction of producing a new design continue to inspire us. We constantly discover exciting and joyful things about ourselves and others through our creations, and hope you do too!

Come see what our inspiration has wrought at our website at www.creationsunlimitedllc.com.