Greetings Creative Heroine!
I gave an interview yesterday morning on the topic of creativity and happiness and would love to share a bit with you…
The interviewer whom I met while out in England in November asked me how I infuse creativity into my life.
This is part of what I shared:
I infuse creativity into my life by having one thing everyday I'm looking forward to doing/reading/singing (I calendar it/it's non-negotiable), by infusing surprise on a weekly basis, no matter how small, into the lives of those I love and by asking myself the following question on a daily basis ~ "what would make me feel most alive in this next moment/today? What empowered thoughts, kind or loving words or actions can I take right now to be compassionate to myself or others?" (Creativity, out-of-the-box thinking and solutions come to us for life and business when, just like a Facebook ad, we boost self-love).
Then, once I have the answer (there always is one), I said, I make a quiet promise with myself to move on doing that as quickly as possible.
We're smart. We're all great at knowing the things — intellectually — that we need to do in order to be happy, creative or more fulfilled, but what really separates the successful — the Creative Heroines — women who move from problem to solution in hopes of expressing more of who they really are, is the doing.
Inspiration is lovely and necessary (it makes you feel wonderful when you've heard an inspiring talk or read an inspiring story, doesn't it?) but it's inspired action that helps us create what we want to be a part of.
Get clear on what it is that you need and want and then do it before ego, fear or worry has a chance to catch on to you.
Getting in and staying in inspired action will help you feel alive.
So, I ask you, Creative Heroine, what one thing do you want to look forward to every day? Calendar it all the Friday before a new week.
How can you get out out of your mind and worry, and infuse surprise into the lives of others? Choose the day each week where you're going to give and delight your spouse, your child, a soul sister or your mother-in-law.
How can you take what you intellectually know will make you happy and actually move on it now or today sometime? After your coaching session or hour working on your new offering this afternoon, promise yourself to make the phone call or put the shoes on to go for the hike in the canyon you've been saying you want to do for months now.
Being an entrepreneur (and tapping into that entrepreneurial spirit) gifts us with crazy drive, fire, opportunity and loads of authentic self-expression if we want it. It's there. Let's use it. It's not cool to lose it. 🙂
Your brand of woman is made up of all that you have coursing inside of you so let the fully-expressed her out to play…
And…action.
Let's keep it going, Creative Heroine, join us in the private Michelle Ghilotti International Creative Heroine in Business and Life Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1582874648592822/
Life is good,
