For part of a new project I am working on, I am gathering all of the things that support genius and success and keeping them close to me, structured in such a way that I can always find the thing I need most, right when I need it.
I added this reminder on Friday:
Which is a great big deep sigh of relief every time I remember.
PS: Join me tomorrow! I’m doing an open call: Creative Spiritual Business Q+A. Click here for deets + to sign up.
This is an open call to ask me anything you want to ask about turning your Creative Dream into your business and explore the process of how to bring your business dream to life.
March 26 at 11am Central.
Click here to find out what time this is in your time zone.
Registration is $23, includes access to the live call plus the recording.? If you can’t be there live, you can send me your questions and I’ll answer them on the call.
But I am happily 100% self employed with my own creative spiritual business and have learned a lot along the way.
When I first started doing my creativity workshops seven years ago, I’d sometimes put workshops on (I did all of my workshops/courses/healing circles/coaching in person back then) that had ZERO attendees(!)
I’d set everything up, and sit there and wait and nothing would happen.? I thought I’d have to keep my day job forever.
Happily, I was wrong.? These days, I support myself doing the things I love most and that day job is a distant memory.
And I would love to help you do the same.
[I do have an entire Creative Business Incubator in the Creative Dream Circle, with hours and hours of videos about every aspect of growing a creative spiritual business. This call cannot replace all of that – it’s just a simple Q+A.? If there is anything you want to ask me about making money doing what you love – this is your chance.]
Registration is closed.? To get the recording, and a TON of other amazingly helpful dream-growing stuff, join the Creative Dream Circle.
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Authenticity is the place you access you superpowers.
When you’re not being true to yourself you cut yourself off from accessing your superpowers.
Authenticity holds your dreams.
No matter how far away they start to seem, or how lost you get, they’re always safely held, right there.
… ditto for your magic, infinite creative potential, joy and light.
Authenticity makes things so simple.
When you’re being true to yourself it’s easy to know what to yes to and what to say no to.
But authenticity is not a destination.
You’re not either there or not there, it’s about the degree of connection in the moment.
Authenticity can be buried by many layers of patterns, masks and the roles we play.? But it can’t be diminished or harmed in any way.
Even when you are far away from it, it is very close and accessible to you.
Today, as I explore in my creative journal, my authentic self feels like deep bright coloured leaves and freshness and openess and grounding and a shimmering golden light holding it all.
This morning I asked my True Self about my business and how she would run it differently.? Instead she drew me a map of how she sees my business which gave me a totally new perspective of, and love for, how I am doing things now.
She also explained that changes that I am thinking of making in terms of her map and showed how the changes are not “changes” as much as “natural evolution” and how, even with those things changed, the flow stays the same and I can relax into and trust that flow.
There is something nourishing and colourful in it.? And it feels, well, true, right deep down in your soul. There is a steadiness and a grounding in receiving that kind of advice that is just not present when you seek advice from other sources.
Because there are so many layers to everything, most of the [internal and external] advice we receive is not good advice.
It’s easy to believe you are listening to your heart but really that’s a familiar old pattern speaking to you and the familiarity feels like comfort which feels like truth, but it’s not.? It’s aim is to hold you in that pattern often while making it look like it is helping you move towards what you really want.
That’s why it seems so difficult to create a life that is filled with all the things you really want.
Because it’s so different from what seems like the “logical right thing to do” and it’s not something I could have come to any way but through deep connection to my true self.
I think the thing that surprises me most about true self is how little we are connected to it, most of the time.? And then how much everything changes with a little mindful connection.
I’m exploring Authenticity today because it’s our theme for the April PLAYDATE.
How authenticity can help us bring our dreams to life with more ease (and fun!).
I do a monthly playdate in the Creative Dream Circle.? And for April you can join even if you’re not in the Circle!
Playdates are also known as How To Fill Your Life With So Much Magic It Actually Sparkles.
It’s an amazing process that allows you to plug into your creative genius so you can get whatever inspiration, intuitive wisdom and creative dream superfuel you need right now.
Words cannot convey how amazing these Playdates are. I?ve actually been sitting here trying to find the right words to describe the magic of the Playdate to you, and I can?t.
I can tell you that I have been running them monthly in my Creative Dream Circle since September and very month they deliver:
Registration: $37 (US)
We shall Playdate On April 3, starting at 11am Central (Click here to find out what time this is for you.).? It will be 3 hours long and include 4 phone calls, with breaks in between for playdating on your own.
It?s amazing if you can be there live, but people do report having just as much success working with the recordings.? You?ll still love this, even if you can?t be there live.
Registration includes:
You?ll leave the Playdate with:
?What you need:
Looking forward to playdating with you.
PS: If you want access to regular Playdates and Teleclasses at a lower price, (plus a ton of extra stuff like my Creative Business Incubator and Advanced Creative Badassery Resource Library and an ongoing private forum) you are welcome to join the Creative Dream Circle.
If you are already a member of the Creative Dream Circle don?t register for this playdate! You get it all free in the Circle, of course.
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A Creative Dream is anything you want to create in your world.
It can be big like creating a thriving business.
It can be small like creating time every week to do something fun.
It can be an internal thing like learning how to be calmer and happier.
Or an external thing like learning how to speak French or fly a plane.
Also: figuring out what your dreams are is a perfectly legitimate dream.? People seem to think they can’t start making their dream real until they know what it is.? That’s not true.
My business, for example.? The business itself is a dream.? Since it is my source of income, my dreams for material goods and a comfortable, supportive lifestyle are a part of it.? Also my dreams for traveling and having a flexible work schedule and making exquisite self-care a part of each day.? Each product I create begins as a dream of a thing I want to create.? Etc, etc, etc.
My biggest dream, of living my purpose, is the whole reason for my business.
It’s like the neverending matryoshka dolls of dreams.
Some days the dream I want to focus on is simply being who I am and radiating that out into the world.
Some days it’s much more concrete.
If you have never made a dream real then I do suggest picking one, just one, to start with.? Pop it into the Incubator and make it REAL.
People tend to not be able to choose just one which only serves to put all their dreams on the shelf.?? It does not matter which one you choose, it only matters that you choose one or else you could spend the rest of your life trying to decide and and up with nothing.
Once you have learned how to make one dream real then you learn how to work on multiple dreams at a time.
And that is why I am writing this.
To remind myself that every dream is legitimate and important and beautiful.? And every dream needs space and it’s own unique nurturing practices.? Juggling them disrespects all of this.
What I am working on right now in my business is creating a new tool to help you (and me!) manage living with multiple dreams while growing other dreams.? “Manage” with play, creativity, spirit and fun.
So I am exploring, with a magnifying glass, the ways that I do live with multiple dreams while bringing others to life, looking for ways that I can do this that are more supportive, fun, creative and effective.
Today I am exploring each and every dream, opening up each nested doll to find the treasures inside.? Filling journals up with my dreams and all the things that each dream needs to grow and thrive.
ps: If you’re feeling stuck with your dreams: please get in touch! I have perfected the art of the QUICK UN-STICK. In a fifteen minute phone call I can get you happily grooving along the path to your dreams.
What is a Creative Dream, and how many can I have? Read More »
You activate ALL superpowers by remembering why you do what you do.
What is your mission and why is it important?
Breathe into the magic of that and you’ll be able to access any superpower you need.
My mission is to help people activate their infinite creative potential and power to create their lives. This is important because people who are plugged into their creativity, purpose + power make the world a better place for everyone.
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I am happy to help!? Book a short (15 minute!) phone call and we’ll un-stick the stuck and get you happily grooving along the path to your dream.
The beauty of a MINI session is that you narrow in on one thing, the one thing that’s super stuck right now, and you get it un-stuck.
This works because even though your dream is this big expansive thing, you can only actually do one thing at a time.
“Between my personal and business life, I had a lot on my plate. I was truly stuck with Time Management Skills.? My thought process at the time was to have a perfect schedule/itinerary. You helped me to realize that Time Management is more of being *effective* with your work within that time frame.
I was very overwhelmed and frustrated.? All the time I did have, I would just sit there in total frustration due to perfectionism.
After our session, I had to ponder. I had to reflect. Take it all in – then I got it!
Now I am getting everything done!? If I only work for One hour – that time is highly effective. I have jumped full throttle into my creativity.
Now, nothing stands in my way.”
Teresa Brouwer, Willow Creek Studio, www.teresabrouwer.com
Yes, all that from a 15 minute phone call!
You can read what others have to say about me and my work here.
You’ll leave the call with:
We can?t make your shining big dream real is 15 minutes (that?s what the Incubator is for) but we can clear what?s in your way right now and get you moving towards it in a smoother, more ease-filled way.
“You are sooo inspiring dear Andrea.? The mini session was very powerful and revealing and has opened up a new door marked potential.”
Heidi Jones, Alchemy of the Arts, alchemyofthearts.blogspot.co.uk
You’ll also get:
“Very helpful consult!? Thinking about my project in a whole nother way.”
Max Daniels, Weight Loss and Money Coach at www.maxdaniels.com
In these super-short sessions we don’t have time to dive into your story, which is actually part of why they are so surprisingly effective.
We’re going to step out of your story and into your inner world where we can transform and dissolve the stuck at its core.
We’ll begin with a questionnaire.? A lot of people report that they feel less stuck just after filling in the questionnaire.
The combination of questionnaire (aka spending some time getting clear on what’s going on) and the commitment to transformation (aka you don’t book a session with me unless you’re ready to Make Your Dream REAL) is super magical.
After you send your questionnaire, you’ll be ushered over to my online scheduler to book your session.? Our session will happen either on a conference line (it’s a US number even though I’m Canadian) or on Skype (audio only).
Do not worry about not knowing what to say!? Thanks to the questionnaire, I’ll already know what’s going on and I’ll lead you in diving right into the magic of how to get what you want.? In the process, I’ll ask you some strange questions, I’ll have you visualize really silly things, we’ll giggle a lot, and there may be tears.
There will also be: relief, a-hah moments and the magic of connecting with your infinite creative potential.
The introductory price for Mini Creative Dream Coaching Sessions is $37.
Let’s do this: You, me, your dream + fifteen minutes of magic.
If you want to find out how I can help you grow your dreams, send me a message.
I help CreativeSpiritual people create success on their own terms.
I?ve studied the spiritual art of DREAM-FULFILLMENT for eighteen years, and have counseled & coached people into jobs they adore?homes they treasure?relationships that light them aglow?and creative adventures (large & small) that color their lives with joy.
Everyone suspects that their dream is impossible, too far-fetched, too big. Happily, everyone is wrong.
I have the tools to help you get what you want. And I?m literally wiggle-dancing with excitement to share them with you.
The introductory price for Mini Creative Dream Coaching Sessions is $37.
Let’s do this: You, me, your dream + fifteen minutes of magic.
Creative Dream Mini Coaching Sessions happen on my Conference Call Line.? We’ll both call in and meet there.? Even though I’m Canadian, it’s an American phone number.? I can also meet you on Skype (audio only) if you prefer – just email me after you’ve booked your session with your Skype ID.
Creative Dream Mini Coaching Sessions happen during the day (North American Central Time Zone) on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.? If you absolutely must book your session outside of this, email me before signing up to see if I can accommodate you (you can use the contact form on this page)
Your session is good for 8 weeks from date of purchase, and then it expires.? There are no refunds for expired sessions.
Your session can be rescheduled with 48 hours notice (just send me an email).? Sessions cancelled with less than 48 hours notice cannot be rescheduled or refunded.
If you haven’t called within 5 minutes of the start time, your session is cancelled and cannot be rescheduled or refunded.
If you call in a few minutes late our session be a few minutes short.? It’s best to call into the conference line a few minutes early to be ready to go on time.
This session does not include follow-up support.? You are free to book another session, or join my Creative Dream Circle, if you want ongoing Creative Dream Support.
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This is how it feels:
A glowing pink heart with golden wings.
In a circle of wide, open sky.
Held by a ring of love.
With light rays shooting out beyond it.
So magic and amazing it glows.
This is my vision for my Creative Dream Circle and this is how it feels for me to hold the vision.
200 dreamers who have all the tools they need for SUCCESSFUL Creative Dream Incubation.
200 dreamers who have all the SUPPORT they need for successful Creative Dream Incubation.
200 dreamers staying engaged in the process of activating their MAGIC.
200 dreamers DELIGHTING in the POWER of their creativity, spirit and purpose.
200 dreamers making a HUGE difference in the world as they are held in the magic in the circle.
I breathe this energy in and let it light the way.
In reading this post and meditating on the essence of my dream every morning I trust the path to unfold in front of me.
I trust the love I have for this vision to light the way for these 200 dreamers to find me.
I trust the passion I have for this vision to fuel the process of bringing it to life in perfect timing.
ps: If you are one of the 200 I’m looking for (yay!) you can join right here.
As part of my post-Creative With Money Playdate Assignments (fyi I am working on a kit version of the Playdate!) I have a monthly meeting with money.? Not like, spreadsheets and budgets, I look at the financial stuff in my business all the time. ?These meetings are different, this is where I meet with money, soul to soul.
The backstory: It started out as a dam that first just confused me and then allowed me to profit from flow, and has since morphed into a few other stories and has been the peacock since last fall.? As I did my best to do what the peacock was asking me to to, in the winter it started laying golden eggs to show me possibility but I didn’t have a way to turn the eggs into anything useful.
When I tried to pick up the golden eggs, the gold peeled off and turned to dust.? Abundance was right there but I couldn’t pick it up.? But I kept working with the peacock and then this amazing golden art deco carriage showed up right behind the peacock that turned the eggs into coins.
And now, this month, there is a lot more gold sparkling in the air than last month, like the peacock has this permanent gold glitter backdrop.
And so we begin (peacock’s words are in italic):
Honey, you’re not picking up all the coins!
What? I’m supposed to pick them all up?? How?
[We both sit in silence. I’m imagining running around exhausting myself trying to pick up the coins. The peacock is looking at all the coins strewn about on the ground and feeling sad about them going to waste.]
The carriage needs an accessory that gathers and holds the coins.
No, that’s your job.? Seriously!? I am laying the freaking golden eggs plus got this amazing cart that turns them into coins!? All you have to do is pick them up!? You won’t even gather the gold coins I have brought to you?
It’s not that I won’t.? I just don’t know how. Or… I guess I didn’t know that I was supposed to.
Honey, you have to receive me.
I thought I already did.
Well, you do.? But more is coming your way so you have to beef up your receiving.
How?
You know how.? Those thoughts in your head right now… act on them.
OK, I can do that.
Remember: Don’t worry about how to do it, just do it.? The how will work itself out like it always does as long as you do what feels right and don’t do what feels wrong and LOTS of creative journaling BEFORE acting.
I should go buy some new art supplies.
YES! Get that stuff you need that makes creative journaling more fun.? Also: drink lots of tea, listen to music and fill the fridge with delicious and nourishing things.? Create the perfect container to bring all of this to life.? Picking up the coins is not the chore you’ve been making it out to be!? It’s a party, sweetie.
I see that now.? OK! I want to go shopping and then get journaling.? Thank you for this.
Clear Direction!? What a gift.
And it turned into a money compass.? Excited to see where it goes.
Every time I talk to a client who is really stuck about something, once when we get a clear picture of what’s happening, the problem is? that they are listening to their inner critics.
There is no other cause of stuck.? It really is as simple as that.
I know it seems like it’s got to be more complicated than that, but it isn’t.? You can only do one thing at a time, and that one thing can either be what your infinite creative potential is suggesting or what your inner critics are suggesting.
What makes it seem more complicated is that most people’s infinite creative potential speaks to them in a whisper, while their inner critics are screaming.? Your infinite creative potential is actually much more powerful and much louder – but if you’ve spent your whole life tuning it out of course you’re not going to be able to hear it!? Meanwhile, if you’ve spent a lifetime of listening to your inner critic of course you’re going to hear it loud and clear!
Learning how to tune into the voice of your infinite creative potential and turn down the volume on your inner critic is the secret to success.
Every minute you spend listening to your fears, doubts and inner critics is a minute in which you are NOT building your Empire of Creative Dreams.
You may be so used to listening to them that it feels so natural that you don’t even know you’re doing it.
You know you are listening to your inner critics if:
Now wouldn’t it be nice to be listening to your infinite creative potential instead?? You know this is happening when:
Learning how to make this internal shift is the most important thing you can learn.
Read that second list again and imagine what your life would be like if all of these things were true for you.
Or ignoring it or burying it or fakin’ it ’til you make it
Because your fear is a part of you too.
Your fear, doubts and even your meanest inner critics are actually just a freaked out inner child.
You give it a hug and say “Oh sweetie, I see you’re upset.? Let’s see what we can do to make you feel better” and you explore.
The beauty, magic and power in this approach is that in order to meet your fear in that way, you automatically align yourself with your infinite creative potential.?
When you’re plugged into creativity and love you’re plugged into your magic and you’re in that place where everything is possible.? This disengages the energy dynamic you’ve been in with your fears.
Meeting your fears, doubts and inner critics with creativity and love will transform the situation, every time.? It’s the fastest way to getting un-stuck.
Deep down inside, your inner critics, fears and doubts (AKA frightened inner children) want the same things you do.?
When you enter into a loving and creative energy dynamic with them you can now work together to get those things.
This is the essence of what we do in the Un-Sticking Station in the Creative Dream Circle.
You even get a recording called: How Meeting Your Fears With Creativity + Love Means You Never Have to Stay Stuck, where we create a beautiful safe space for exploring fears, I talk about how this works and then lead a few volunteers through the process so you can see how it actually works.
This is so abstract, it’s kind of hard to explain.? But once you experience what it’s like to see people work through the process, you’ll totally see the magic.
I believe we are always either listing to our fears or listening to our creative genius.? Fears are good at masquerading as a lot of other things, like logic and sensibleness, and the better you get at working with fear, the better you get at identifying it so that you can spend more of your life being guided by your genius, instead of by your fears.
In other words – meeting your fears with creativity and love is HOW YOU CREATE MAGIC.
The world needs your magic.
PS: That longer How Meeting Your Fears With Creativity + Love Means You’ll Never Have To Stay Stuck recording is in the Creative Dream Circle.
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Monday morning is usually my favourite time of the week.? I love mornings, I love new beginnings.? I love what I’m doing with my work so it’s always exciting to dive into a new week.
This Monday is different.? This Monday I’m starting from a state of creative depletion.
The past five weeks I’ve undertaken what I have been calling The Mystery Project.? This is the biggest project I’ve ever done and I broke ALL of my own rules for creative nurturing and extreme self-care in order to do it as quickly as I did.
When it comes to creating my own courses and everything I do in my business, I have learned how to schedule and plan in tune with my creative needs and cycles.? I give everything what it needs to incubate FIRST.? When you give the creative dream incubation process what it needs FIRST, the creation process becomes so much easier – everything works like magic.
Speaking of magic -? this amazing opportunity came my way.? A once in a lifetime kind of opportunity.? The kind of opportunity that, if I hadn’t jumped on it and given it everything I had I would have regretted it for the rest of my life.
So I chose to work myself into a state of creative depletion knowing that depletion is temporary and I am skilled at filling the well.
There are schools of thought (and I used to agree with them) that say that balance is key and you have to focus on maintaining balance at all times.? I now think that’s horseshit.
Creativity is flashes of light and wild creative abandon and stillness and deep incubation.?? You don’t balance it, you dance with it.
Every part of the cycle is part of creativity.? Trying to stay in a state of balance can mean softening the edges of that natural cycle and dimming your light and dulling your results.
And also seeing the beauty and joy in all parts of the dance.? Even though I actually feel better when I’m being actively creatively productive, remembering that the refilling times are just as important for productivity helps me relax into the decadence of exquisite self-care.
Right now, for me this means: naps, bubble baths, aromatherapy, journaling and lots and lots of tea. Oh! And some molasses cookies dipped in tea!? Mmmmmm.
PS: I’m doing TWO group coaching calls this month:
March 15: How Meeting Your Fears With Creativity + Love Means You Never Have To Stay Stuck
March 26: Creative Business Q+A Call
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I am an artist.? My canvas is my life.
My tools are adventure, play, possibility, love, deep healing work, transformation, authentic power, glee, creativity, connection to spirit, expression of purpose and being a ray of light.
Also: journals, rainbows, crystals and mineral spas.
It’s important to me to live my life in a way that feels true to who I am and to contribute what I feel I am here to contribute.?
This is more important to me than anything.? More important than finding a partner, having babies or making a million dollars.? I can do without pretty much anything else, but if I didn’t have this I would wither and die.
Even before I had the tools to be able to do this effectively, I was still practically allergic to seeing people hiding their true selves.? They mirrored the places where I didn’t know how to not compromise and it made me itchy and uncomfortable.
I stand for being who I am and supporting others in the process of becoming who they are.
When you can be who you are you have access to infinite wisdom, infinite strength, infinite creativity, infinite love, infinite inner power and infinite ingenuity…. when you can be who you are anything is possible, in a tangible way.? And anything that harms or belittles? anyone or anything else just seems like a stupid waste of time.?
When you can be who you are you become a light.? Most of the world is in shadow right now.? When most of the world is in light – things will change.
So when I talk about making your dreams real I am talking about changing the world.? One awakened creative being at a time.
I just read this blog post and it inspired me to write out who I am and what I stand for.
PS: I’m hosting an amazing playdate this weekend and you’re invited! Read more + register here.
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DELIGHT:
1. Which is delight: how delighting in your dreams helps give you the energy and enthusiasm you need to make them happen. Delight can fuel you up and fill you up, so you become BIGGER than the obstacles in your way.
2. And it?s also deLIGHT: how your dream is how you shine your light out into the world and exploring what kinds of things can help you do that more effectively.
Your dream is your dream for a reason.?
That reason is so jam-packed with delight it it can power the lights that light up the path that leads to your dream come true.? Shining your light out into the world is what you came here to do, it’s a basic part of everyone’s programming.
And the ways we react to that terror are fascinating.? We block the light, we turn away from the light, we pretend we don’t have as much light as we do – all while desperately searching for ways to shine our light more brightly.
Creativity = shining your unique light into the world.
It we were just blocking/avoiding/ignoring our light (like most of the world is doing right now) we would go numb and settle into lives that don’t quite fit and accept that this is the best it gets.
When you’re blocking/avoiding/ignoring (and we’re all doing this on some level) while at the same time trying to bring a creative project to light it’s like two opposing energies colliding.
I want it so bad.
But I’m scared.
But I’m ready.
But I’m not, really. I mean – who am I do to this?
But I am ready! I want this so bad!
But I’m scared.
etc.
Depending how conscious or unconscious this all is, you may actually recognize this conversation or you may just find that you really want to do something but no matter how you try it just doesn’t work out the way you wanted it to.
Either way you both LOVE THE THING YOU WANT TO DO SOOOO MUCH and also GET SO FRUSTRATED AND SCARED SOMETIMES.
It’s really hard to hold intense energies that are moving in the opposite direction from each other.? But this is the path of bringing a big dream to life: Dealing with the fears, freak-outs and stucks while growing your Creative Genius.
This inner work stuff is so hard sometimes.
On March 3 I am running a Virtual Playdate (AKA How To Fill Your Life With So Much Magic It Actually Sparkles).
The theme will be: deLIGHT
This is where you imagine me grinning like an idiot.? I am still slightly stunned and amazed by my Playdates.? I have been running them monthly in my Creative Dream Circle since September and very month they deliver: magic, miracles and life-changing shifts in perspective.
Playdates are filled with:
Creativity. Play. Gleeeeful Explorations.
Looking inside for direction, guidance and fuel.
Exploring ways to trust those inner messages.
Opening up new layers of what is really true, for you.
Figuring out how to apply all of this to how you live your life.
Surprising True Fact: With the right approach, you can actually play your inner work better than you can work on your inner work.
Registration: $37 (US)
We shall Playdate On March 3, starting at 11am Central (click here to find out what time this is in your time zone).? It will be 3 hours long and include 4 phone calls, with breaks in between for playdating on your own.
It’s amazing if you can be there live, but people do report having just as much success working with the recordings.? You’ll still love this, even if you can’t be there live.
Registration includes:
You’ll leave the Playdate with:
?What you need:
I hope you’ll join me, I’d love to play with you.
I might offer another playdate in the future but I never do the same one twice.? So if this speaks to you, join me now!
Questions? Check out my policies page.
PS: If you want access to regular Playdates and Teleclasses at a lower price, (plus a ton of extra stuff like my Creative Business Incubator and Advanced Creative Badassery Resource Library and an ongoing private forum) you are welcome to join the Creative Dream Circle.
If you are already a member of the Creative Dream Circle don?t register for this playdate! You get it all free in the Circle, of course.
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Every Monday morning in the Creative Dream Circle, we have a Creative Genius Planning Session.? We invite in the qualities we want to play with for the week, intentions for how we want to be and what we’d like to accomplish and receive, we bring our creative genius into planning so that things so easy and smooth, we inspire each other and we make magic.
This week I felt like posting mine here, so here goes.
For the last little while, I’ve been working on a Mystery Project which has basically taken over my regular schedule.? This week I’d like to start to shift back, with maybe 50-50 split of Mystery Project and regular Creative Magic Headquarters Activities.
So what would that look like?
Ha, that seems so confusing at first but actually it’s simple – smaller containers for Mystery Project naturally means more space for other stuff.? But thinking about doing that feels uncomfortable and tight…
….cue discussion with Mystery Project…
Mystery Project – what do you need?
More than 50% that is for sure!? Why is it that you want to shift back into “normal” before I’m done?
Oh, good question.? Oh!? That’s an old pattern.? It’s how I react when external things try to swoosh in and change my plans.? I protect what I want.
Do you really need to protect yourself from me?
No!? I’m seeing you as external but really you are a project I chose to say yes to and you are a project I love and am excited about.? I guess I worry that I am dropping too many balls in the process of spending all this time with you.
….cue discussion with Other Stuff That Is Being Left Behind…
Hey!? Other Stuff!? I miss you!
Oh man, (blinking) can you turn down the light?? You woke me up and I was having such a delicious sleep.
Oh, so you’re not jumping around impatiently waiting for me to come back to you?
Dude!? Mystery Project is awesome!? We’ll have so much more fun together after it’s finished.
Oh, that makes sense.? OK, enjoy your sleep and just let me know if you need anything.
Important:
(Created list of important things this week and added in to my journal page in purple marker)
Yes, everything else can continue to sleep and I can give Mystery Project most of my attention this week. (Created list of priorities for Mystery Project for this week in hot pink marker)
Also, in keeping with our Creative Dream Incubator work in the Circle this week, added a list of things I am doing to nourish myself, my creativity and my dreams, in turquoise marker.
I am inviting trust, ease and flow to hang out with me this week.? I am making my (inner + outer) space a welcoming container for these qualities by remembering them in my meditations and leaving myself reminders about them.
OK week, I am ready to rock you!
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Every month we do this amazing playdate/tea-party-of-miracles in the Creative Dream Circle.? And every month as I’m preparing it I think we’re going to learn x and then we end up learning abcdefghihjklmopqrstuvw.
This month I wanted to create space for us to create? Support Systems for our Creative Dreams.? You know what I’m talking about, that system or product or way-of-doing-things that makes everything magically easy, always, forever and ever.
How embarrassing is that?? I have been doing this for how long and I am still looking for that magic bullet?
Luckily, the playdates are a container and an invitation for magic + miracles to occur.? So it doesn’t matter what I think we’re going to learn, everyone’s going to learn what they need to learn, including me.
So when we invited the heart and soul of SUPPORT to join us in the circle, I was completely blown away.
They are already perfectly and beautifully supported by spirit and purpose.? Nothing I can create or find or buy would add to this in any noticeable way.? My creative dreams are already completely supported, perfectly whole and complete and real on the spiritual plane(s).
It’s me who needs support!? You and me and all the other creative dreamers.? Bringing a dream to life is a big job that demands internal growth.? Internal growth almost always requires a different kind of support than you think it does.
This is part of the nature of being in the process of change, you can’t properly anticipate what you need because you’re thinking from where-you-were and the support is needed at the level of where-you’re-going.? That’s why I playdate these things instead of attempt to teach them – playdates open you up to your creative genius and divine intuition so you can get the answers you need.
During the playdate the heart and soul of support asked me to let go of some old dreams, and old ways of seeing myself, to free up my energy to be more supportive of the dreams that want to come to life now.? This is NOT even close to what I was expecting.
I was expecting stuff like: spend more time working on it, be more organised and productive, have a better system, get expert advice, hire the right help, blah, blah blah.? In hindsight, those do sound like things my inner critics would say, not my inner genius.
So I wasn’t expecting, even a little bit, to be asked to let go of dreams that I’d held for so long they feel like a part of who I am.? When I received that message, I felt totally blown away and confused.
Of Course(!) it’s time to let go of some of those dreams.? I have been feeling like it doesn’t all fit.? Letting go makes space for what’s really important right now.? And it’s not like I destroyed the old dreams – I can always go back to them if I want to.
Right now I feel free.? Like there is enough room for what matters, like there is even enough room for my dreams to grow bigger than I think they can.
So thank you playdate!? And thank you to my fellow Creative Dreamers in the Circle who help make the playdates so stunningly transformative, healing and FUN.
This is the soul work play of bringing a dream to life.? I am blown away grateful that this is also the work work I get to do every day, and that I get to do it with such amazing and inspiring people. I have so much love for all of you.
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Getting yourself to a place of being able to shine your light, and then making the necessary adjustments to keep shining the brightest light you can reach for is an ever-changing dance.
My dance, over the past few weeks has included:
The quiet times are when all the best stuff happens.
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