BEGINNING OF A NEW YEAR!
It has started, our new year of perhaps expectations and planning. I have however made a pause to reconcile and adjust to what lies ahead.

It could had looked different if I had jump started this year with a head full of just to do’s and accomplishments, but I decided to reverse it all to benefit me later.

I have spent some time after the Bells rang, wishing us a great New Year, with sorting out, cleaning stuff and changing what is not beneficial anymore.
To begin with a clean slate is often a good way to start something, dishing out what is not compatible anymore and looking for things that will support me in my new endeavor, so I did!

Are you on the path too? Have you done your cleaning out before committing to something new?
Well, for this part of the journey to become more free to create there are some good stuff that can take you further by doing them before you prepare for your journey.

5 TIPS TO MAKE YOUR NEW YEAR START OUT FRESH.

❤︎    CLOSE ENVIRONMENT
Start by looking at your close environment and decide what is distracting you and feels like it creates an obstacle from your creative process. Decide if you still need to have it around you and if it fits where you are at the moment. If it doesn’t fit your expression and the way you feel just get rid of it!

❤︎   SOCIAL MEDIA
Making a stretch out of Social Media is to get focused. For this to work you need to let go of all those distractive Apps that you don’t use anymore. I have downloaded Apps that for some reason didn’t hit the ground with me and so it sits there whenever I open the phone and TAKES UP SPACE. Let’s be real – it is not fun to have your screen full of useless Apps that distracts you from where you want to be in 6 months or so. Be ruthless, be hard, be truthful. The Apps that are wasting your time, annoying you, makes you upset, doesn’t work, crashes – ditch them right away and save the ones that makes you have success in whatever you are doing, and off course saves you time doing what you are doing.

❤︎    DESKTOP
If you are like me VISUAL, you know the languages of images and drawings and how it works out so well for you to work and be creative. Well the tendencies are to gather a lot of them for future work or inspiration. They tend to get outdated, a memory of the past, a good to have image when you are going to make xxxxxx. Can you hear this? It is all about the past and it will soon trap you not to make a leap into the present with what can be considered NEW, clean, newborn etc. Set aside time to clean your desktop from ALL your saved projects and images and begin anew.
I made this process fun by choosing a new DESKTOP image as a sign and inspiration that I have started clean and new for this year, and by the way I chose some of my own images taken a winters day with FROZEN CRYSTALS everywhere a truly beautiful day.

❤︎    IMAGES
Well that is a great subject. If you are like me then you have your phone loaded with images from all kinds of places, projects, meetings beautiful things that you saw etc.
It goes like this, you take a picture CLICK and save it on your phone, then you take another picture CLICK and after some time you could have ended up with thousands of images.
Tell me honestly, how often do you scroll and look through all of those images? Nae – didn’t think so, but they also take up space in your phones MEMORY. Did you hear that? MEMORY. This is something that you don’t want to weight you down. For this to work you can make a security copy on your computer for later use and processing. After that is done you can now go into your phone and delete all the images that are not required anymore. Just by doing this you have created more space for being creative, perhaps shoot a new video, take a new picture etc. And not the least it feels good not to be cluttered with old images

❤︎    STUDIO SPACE
After some great projects last year and sales until the very end, the time for Christmas and New Year with family and friends nocked on the door. A lot of things piled up in the studio and the time for rest was laid upon its energies. Can you remember how it feels when the studio has been on its own for some time? An empty and dull feeling subsides in it and the moment you enter it really speaks out lout TAKE CARE OF ME!
I think you can guess what I’m going to say……..Just CLEAN out the studio! Throw away rubbish, pull out your cleaning gears and do the job and when it’s done make sure to lighten a incense to clear the energies in its entirety.
Now you can start to work again, with new and fresh eyes!

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Are you on top of things? Have you started out right since the new year began? Just to make sure you don't beat yourself up, I just wanted to say that my start went off quite slow. However I decided not to get into that nagging feeling of being thrown off the wagon so after a few inspiring youtube videos I took a strong start in the studio and now at this moment finished off two paintings - so actually when it comes to feeling behind I cannot give you any more valuable advice than just get in there, no matter what and just focus yourself on whatever tiny little thing that you can make. Soon the workingspace will feel warm and you will have a result at the end of the session.

The creative life should be fun don't you think? I know that I do and knowing that, and still finding the daily creative work being challenging and finding that we still get stuck from time to time I have started to making my way around that issue.

THIS IS WHY I have started to teach others on how to gently pass through that passage with joy and stillness at the same time. In a process that is both meditative and concrete it will take less than 2 days for the participants on the journey on becoming more free and feeling confident about their own creative expression.

IS THIS SOMETHING FOR YOU TOO?
Would you like to feel more intuned in your art practice? Well this might be something for you too!
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Hope to hear from you and WISHING you the best of this year 2019!

We all keep on striving for moments of passion and our true expression (I know I am) so how do we find inspiration to go on even if our circumstances are not that bright at the moment?

I must dedicate a homage to Bill Cunningham this day since he passed away yesterday from a stroke and left a legacy of work for all the rest of us to find out or to devle in for our inspiration. He had a sense of simplicity yet a delicacy in his point of view from the street and his bicycle. I wrote a blogpost about Bill Cunningham and his work because as I watched the documentary made by First Thought Films it became a true inspiration to keep in mind when the wind is blowing and you need to nurture yourself as an artist. If you can, grab a copy of the film or read my blogpost as a friendly -"Thank You" Bill for what you have done for us over the years - I'll bet all of the FASHION HOUSES are in deep sadness today RIP BILL.

DO YOU THINK YOU CAN WIN ONLY BY COMPETING?

You have heard it many times before; “you have to be better than……, “you have to out perform him/her,” the only way you can win is if you beat whoever you think might be in competition with you.

So this is how we are raised – to think that we have to compare and compete to be the first or to get recognition. This mindset creates a sense of DULLNESS and restrains us from being the best that we can be. Since the mind is set to compete and compare, the CREATIVE part never sets in and we lose out on the most FRUITFUL part of ourselves.

If we are looking to compete and never inspire ourselves to ignite that part which holds the CREATIVE essence we will never be more than a COPY of somebody else. That copy will soon fade away and you will begin to feel numb and the DULLNESS turns up like a POSTMAN ON YOU DOORSTEP.

Do yourself a favor ∼ STOP COMPETING and learn how to ignite your CREATIVE PART instead! While you start to ignite some CREATIVITY in your life you will soon notice that you expand and you’ll see that your expression will become more fuller, more ignited, more colorful and in that, you will notice whenever you are not using that part of yourself, that so many times leads to a NEW CREATIVE PART. If you find yourself not knowing how to start an action to a release that will make you feel better with yourself continue reading about being CREATIVE or come back here again and I will give some more tips on how to gain a fuller expression of self.  

A person who never competed was WALT DISNEY, he lived by a devise that said:

∼ I never compete I CREATE ∼

 
Win every game in your life by beginning to CREATE instead of competing!

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  LOVE AND INSPIRATION TO YOU

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  EVA-LI