10 Simple Ways to Turn Your Creative Spark into a Flame

Written by Nancy Marmolejo


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5. Make Time for Reflection and Introspection. Take time to get quiet and look within. What behaviors or thoughts keep you from growing your creativity? How are situations in your life zapping your energy, thereby reducing your creative output? Creativity is an inside-out job. Healing yourself from within is a step inrepparttar right direction. 6. Practice Gratitude. Gratitude is a HUGE part of creativity. When you express gratitude forrepparttar 129097 simplest things, you’ll find yourself rewarded with a host of new ideas. Use your daily journal to list everything you’re grateful for, and you’ll soon feelrepparttar 129098 power of gratitude in your life. If you’re suffering from a creative block, sit down and write a list of ten things you’re grateful for. When good things come your way, put a word of gratitude out there. 7. Practice Appreciation. Along with gratitude comes appreciation: appreciatingrepparttar 129099 creativity of others, appreciating beauty, appreciating people’s efforts. Find something to appreciate in everything you see today, whether it’s something from nature, a handmade item, or something manufactured. Observe and appreciaterepparttar 129100 work that goes into everything around you. 8. Create Community. Find or create a community of people who share your passions and interests. Share what excites you: your successes, your frustrations, your craziest schemes. Communities meet online, by conference call, in person, or through other means. The right one is out there and is waiting for you. 9. Stoprepparttar 129101 Trickster. The Trickster is that negative voice in your head who tells you that you aren’t good enough, that you can’t change, that being creative is for other people. Tellrepparttar 129102 Trickster to be quiet, and understand that it is only an illusion of your mind designed to keep you from growing. 10. Celebrate Small Victories. Creativity doesn’t have to be grand or on a large scale. An insignificant action for one person can be a huge victory for another. If you try at least one ofrepparttar 129103 items on this list, consider that a small victory. Watch how infusing your life withrepparttar 129104 gifts of creativity sparks talents and skills you may not even realize you have. Who knows… maybe you’rerepparttar 129105 one with The Next Big Idea!

Nancy Marmolejo is a life and business coach for creative women and the owner of Comadre Coaching. To contact Nancy, email info@comadrecoaching.com or call 714-777-1216. Sign up for Nancy’s award winning newsletter, The Pocket Comadre, by visitng http://www.ComadreCoaching.com.


Make Mistakes and Become Successful!

Written by Kenia Morales


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A fact proven by statistics is that yearly more entrepreneurs fail on attempts to start their own businesses. However, there is something statistics are not showing you. Some ofrepparttar few entrepreneurs that succeed have been aroundrepparttar 129094 block a second or third time. Yes, they were probably some ofrepparttar 129095 business owners that failed but, decided to turn failure in to success. Learning from past experiences helped them employrepparttar 129096 new acquired knowledge torepparttar 129097 second or third business. Did they really failrepparttar 129098 first time around? No, I don’t think so! I like to think about it as hands on experience.

If you make attempts to confront your fears; your life in general can change forrepparttar 129099 better. So, if you are having doubts remember that others have done it and you can too.

Give Yourself a Chance,

Kenia Morales

Kenia Morales is the publisher of online magazine http://kpatra.com "For Every Aspect of Today's Woman. Visit her site to find a variety of women related issues and topics" click here http://www.kpatra.com/keniascolumn.htm to find Kenia's little piece of heaven her inspirational column


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