Tiny Creative Acts: Easter Eggs

Easter Eggs

Sometimes my clients tell me they want to be creative, they try to be creative, but they don't know where start.

I usually assign them tiny creative acts. Our intellects and our culture adore sweeping changes, but I find our inner artists just want to pull out the art supplies and play. 

A great place to dip your toes back into getting creative is in the things you loved as a kid. Kids are given so much permission to do stuff--just to do stuff. Art that doesn't have to BE anything--but fun.

If you're feeling really blocked, don't underestimate the safety and permission to be found in "kid" art supplies.  Go ahead, pull out the crayons,  pick up some play dough, or ....dye some Easter eggs!

When to Journal?

There is no "right" time to journal. Whatever works for you is perfect--which may change from day to day or season to season. My favorite time to journal is first thing in the morning--that way no one and nothing can take it away--and I start my day in a fun, mindful way.

When do you journal? in the morning? before bed? while waiting for a meeting?

Share your favorite journal time by commenting!

Poem: Buds

Buds

you wake,

deep within

the bark,

while we

still think

it's winter

you somehow know,

to start your work

before the world outside

seems ready

you somehow trust

the coming of the sun,

undeterred

by winter's darkest,

coldest hours

what memory!
what timing!
if you needed me
to tell you when,

you would bloom next year!

just how is it,

that you know,

the time is right

to blossom?

Would you

tell me

if you could?

Would you

show me how

to know

when I am ready?

Could you

teach me

to believe

in the coming

of the sun?