Many of us nurture the feeling or belief that we never have enough time.

So then we don't.

But maybe that rumbling, that feeling, is merely signaling that we need to shift gears, work in our genius way more, and work with and commune with people that enliven us, that add to our joy and that either make time stop (love and romantic relationships are great at this) or simply open up the idea of what 60 minutes can really do and feel like (I find the more I work with people on my own business who are working their true gifts and *in* their genius, this is exactly what happens).

Have the rumbling?

Do you need to work with or commune with people that make you feel alive and that add to your daily joy?

Life is good,

p.s. Can't wait to share some of the brand and leadership tips I'll be giving at the Running with Heels dinner 3/30 with you. xo

This week my love to you comes in the form of sharing the Five Keys of Great Branding with you.

This soundbite was another part of the talk I gave in England in November (you might remember that I’ve shared the mp3s around Creative Blocks and How to Nurture Your Creativity in the last few weeks).

Here’s what you'll get a taste of in this five-minute clip:

• What branding really is means for creative women entrepreneurs like us.
• What a great authentic brand IS and what needs to be in alignment in order to …
• What self expression has to do with success.
• What ONE thing you need to tap into so your audience ALWAYS remembers you.
• What feeling you want to gift the world through your work and why this is important for your brand…

Enjoy, Creative Heroine, in joy: https://soundcloud.com/michelle-ghilotti-mandel/five-keys-of-branding-1

Life is good,

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,

If you're a part of this community, you're creative…you're a Creative Heroine! Plain and simple.

In fact, as I shared in my talk at IGNITE 2014, evolution bred creativity in all of us (not just some of us) so we could not only survive, but thrive!

But maybe you're in a season, period or having a day that is making you feel anything BUT creative. Maybe you're working on a new offering or client project that's really testing your ability to move from problem to solution (all creativity is) that's allowing you to express more of who you really are.

If any of those are the case (and even if they aren't), I know you'll enjoy this short clip from my Creative Heroine talk in England this last November:

https://soundcloud.com/michelle-ghilotti-mandel/nurture-your-creativity-three-tips-given-at-ignite-2014-in-england

Learn what I mean when I say:

• "Be Beethoven" (GIVE THEM BRAND CLIP NEXT TUES and link back to alignment blog from two weeks ago)
• What Trapeze School Taught Me
• What Things You Can Do to Go Out of Your Mind 🙂
• And more…

And if you missed the 10-minute clip I sent a few weeks ago about Creative Blocks, you can dance over to listen to that one FIRST: https://michelleghilotti.com/blog/10-minute-creative-heroine-mp3-inside-2/ 

 

 

If you have other things you do as a Creative Heroine to keep you moving from problem to solution, I'd love to hear about it! Comment in the comment section below.

https://soundcloud.com/michelle-ghilotti-mandel/nurture-your-creativity-three-tips-given-at-ignite-2014-in-england

Until next time, and as always, enjoy your business, enjoy your life…here's to making happiness your business and being the mother of your own reinvention!

Life is good,

p.s. So happy we're together in this thing called life and entrepreneurship.