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Shooting Flowers, Romping through Hills & Questions about Focus

Published on November 5, 2013 by

In the world of digital everything, Google and YouTube bloggers, writers and anyone who calls themselves a content producer learns how to create stuff to read, headlines, outlines, lists and other things to attract attention. It's not a bad thing; we just end up with lots of 11 ways to ...

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How to Make the Art of Organization Work (even if you are a free spirit!)

Published on October 18, 2013 by

Despite the variety of things we do, we creatives have more than a few common tendencies. See if you identify yourself in the following:

First, creative people have more ideas than they know what to do with.  If you tend to write down ideas (so as not ...

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3 Reasons Why Competence is Important to the Artist

Published on October 8, 2013 by

If one lacks confidence in their art, whatever medium it may be, it might reflect  an area the artist doesn't feel they are excelling in.

Competence is defined by the  Merriam Dictionary as "the ability to do something well".

Hardly an exciting definition.  However, the link between competence and confidence ...

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Do What You Can With What You Have

Published on September 16, 2013 by

Do you have days where you get confirmation on something on your mind- isn't that the coolest?

I'm sharing my personal confirmation with you!  This isn't the blog post I was going to post but I think somebody else needs to here this.

This morning I was thinking about a ...

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An Honest Confession about the Journey to Becoming an Artist

Published on September 10, 2013 by

The last year has been full of ups and downs and everything in between.

I started the Launch Your Creative Life blog and website to journey my own path from novice to full time artist.

It's not been pretty and I haven't made it.

The journey is just that- a ...

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Somebody Needs You to Shine

Published on July 27, 2013 by

I originally read about the importance of shining in a blog by Monica Lee at Smart Creative Women.

Monica wrote a post and told us “the world needs you to shine.”

Then, in the blogosphere I read a marketer's call to "choose to live in the sunshine" ...

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Friday FOCUS

Published on July 19, 2013 by

Focusing on the finish line is a problem for me.

Maybe that’s not entirely true.  I can see the finish line.

But I tend to stop about 75% of the way there.

Anybody?  Anybody?

Starting projects is super easy.  I've got lots of ideas (I bet you do too).

And ...

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Lessons Learned from a Worn Out Pair of High Heels

Published on July 15, 2013 by

I threw out a favorite pair of heels on Saturday.

That may sound like an unimportant thing but these were my favorite high heels in the world. 

Following the Parisian guide to style, I keep a very small wardrobe including my shoes.  I have two pairs of inexpensive black ...

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9 Reasons to Pursue Your Art

Published on July 5, 2013 by

In case you needed a bit of a boost of encouragement for your journey, here are 9 reasons not to give up the goal of creating a life and business with your art!

I was at a coffee shop when I thought of this.

Not a big surprise ...

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How Baking Bad Cookies Changed my Attitude

Published on July 2, 2013 by

I really get down on myself when I mess up a cookie recipe. And recently, I've been messing up a lot which hasn't been great for my attitude in the kitchen.

At least, this is how I felt after several botched cookie recipes.  (You can see one of them ...

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