- Go on more adventures that allow me to either go somewhere new or try something new.
- Read poetry.
- Be around children. They influence imagination.
- Dance around in my underwear!
- Watch Sunsets
- Revisiting something creative I did before.
- Stop resorting to my schemas on how creative work should be.
- MAKE FRIENDS with people who you can collaborate with.
- Experience the world and draw on that for your creative work.
- Write more in my notebooks. fill them up before buying more.
- Bake and cook more without recipes.
- Broaden the definition of what is and is not art.
- Find ways to make creativity my way of living. Not something separate and contrained but part of everyday.
- Explore all five senses
- Record progress. Bring consciousness and self awareness to the search
- Question everything.
- Explore where my world view, perceptions, feelings differ from other people. Find ways to express that difference creatively.
- Believe.
- Learn a new skill.
- Look at things critically, question, evaluate…. But never, never sneer.
- Develop a love for clothes – colours, textures, styles, accessaries.
- Seize the moment. If there is only 5 minutes available, do something creative with those 5 minutes.
- Experiment with handcrafts. Make things, work with my hands, see how things fit together, be deft.
- Create effective routines that take care of the routine stuff, and allow more free time.
- Visit other countries.
- Surround myself with things I find beautiful, create an environment that encourages me to see possabilities
- Learn to cook. Experiment. Chop up fresh herbs. Go to markets. Seek out fresh produce. * Swap recepies. Have a signature dish.
- Study, learn, explore, develop. Balance practical skills with academic learning. Go back to college.
- Don’t grudge the expence.
- Remember “what other people think of me is none of my business”. Believe it.
- Learn to live in the moment. Stop procrastinating and deferring, especially with arty ‘treats’.
- Stop putting up with things unnecessarily.
- Enjoy where I am right now, and actively seek to make it the best it can be.
- Learn to draw!
- Think where I would like to be in the future, what I would like to be doing, and work actively towards it, even in small ways. Be open to possibility. Be prepared to try and fail. Have a plan, no matter how sketchy.
- Try new things. Just because I think I would like to.
- Celebrate the seasons. Appreciate each one, do seasonal activities, eat seasonal food.
- Clear space. In my head by giving myself permission to sit and dream. By cutting out un-necessary time fillers. Consider getting rid of the TV. Take my phone off the hook one evening a week.
- Clear space. In my house physically. Have tables and desks clear. Kitchen countertops gleaming. Canvas and paper available. Set up my easel. Have space to move around.
- Be frugal. Stop squandering money. Use it thoughtfully. Save for things in a contented way. Look at things I already have, and use them in different ways.
- Learn from other people. Read biographies of people I am interested in.
- Listen to music. All sorts. Try new kinds. Be aware of my mood and suit my selection to how I feel. Throw out/give away old CDs and things that no longer reflect my taste. Make room for who I am right now.
- Get in touch with nature. Make time to walk in the mountains, paddle in the sea, feel the rain on my bare skin, listen to birds in the morning, have wind in my hair.
- Learn to play like a child again. Mess with paper, roll marbles, mix poster paints, stick glitter on everything, buy soap making sets, and candle sets, and grow crystals in water. Make things with pipecleaners, and lollypop sticks and wool.
- As much as possible, vary my commute to and from work. Leave at different times, take different routes, listen to different radio stations, stop off along the way for different things, park in a different spot, sit in the car and read, play my college tapes as I drive etc.
- Find inspirational places, and visit them deliberately..
- Abandon the end result. The aim is to do, not to have done. To do something well, I must first be prepared to do it badly. Give myself permission to do things badly. Accept that skills must be learned, and practised
- Be open to being spontaneous.
- Hang things on the walls of my house. Photos of places I have visited, paintings, prints that inspire me, things that make me think. Change them around regularily. Enjoy them.
- Write quotes on the walls of my (to be created) study.
- Practise my art. To ‘be’ it, it is necessary to ‘do’ it.
- Visit the sea
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